Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Monday’s trading session lower after the EGX30 index declined by 1.13% to 31,355.82 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also retreated by 0.87% to 3,221.48 points.
Both EGX70 and EGX100 indices closed the session lower by 0.78% at 9,259.37 points and 0.81% at 12,556.89 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover amounted to EGP 3.131 billion through the exchange of 1.202 billion shares over 86,750 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.221 trillion.
The institutions equaled 25.76% of the total trading, while retail investors controlled the remaining 74.23%.
Egyptian investors controlled 85.43% of the trading transactions, whereas foreign and Arab traders made up 9.17% and 5.4% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Foreign and Egyptian investors were sellers with EGP 24.965 million and EGP 17.744 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the Arab traders were buyers with EGP 42.710 million.