Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Wednesday’s trading session in the red zone, with the EGX30 falling by 0.49% at 31,030.7 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also declined by 0.82% to 3,225.7 points.
The EGX70 index as well as the EGX100 index ended the session lower by 0.09% at 8,968.78 points and by 0.37% at 12,313.19 points, respectively.
The turnover amounted to EGP 3.424 billion through the exchange of 1.505 billion shares over 102,274 transactions, while the market capitalization hit EGP 2.199 trillion.
Retail investors made up 81.16% of the total trading, while the institutions represented 18.83%.
Egyptian investors controlled 90.34% of trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders represented 7.29% and 2.36%, respectively.
Egyptian and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 37.642 million and EGP 7.624 million, respectively. The Arab traders were buyers with EGP 45.267 million.