Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Monday’s trading session in the red zone, with the EGX30 index down by 0.38% to 31,810.98 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also fell by 0.91% to 3,340.87 points.
Likewise, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session lower by 0.41% at 8,961.49 points and by 0.54% at 12,356.92 points, respectively.
The turnover reached EGP 3.376 billion through the exchange of 1.272 billion shares over 94,697 transactions, while the market capitalization amounted to EGP 2.240 trillion.
Retail investors accounted for 78.59% of the total trading, while the institutions accounted for 21.4% of the total trading.
Egyptian investors made up 91.2% of the trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders represented 5.11% and 3.69% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Foreign and Egyptian investors were buyers with EGP 19.352 million and EGP 28.845 million, respectively, while the Arab traders were sellers with EGP 48.197 million.