Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a positive performance on Sunday, with the EGX30 closing the session higher by 1.18% at 31,174.62 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went up by 1.09% to 3,220.01 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index also ended the session higher by 1.74% at 8,930.09 points and by 1.67% at 12,293.28 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover hit EGP 3.226 billion through the exchange of 1.456 billion shares over 97,900 transactions. The market capitalization amounted to EGP 2.197 trillion.
Retail investors took over 84.49% of the total trading, while the institutions represented 15.50%.
Egyptian investors controlled 93.76% of trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders made up 5.26% and 0.98%, respectively.
Arab and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 106.834 million and EGP 6.2 25 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 113.059 million.