Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Thursday’s trading session in the red zone, with the EGX30 index declining by 1.91% to 30,248.44 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, fell by 1.66% to 3,160.85 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session lower by 2.01% at 8,858.87 points and by 1.81% at 12,079.39 points, respectively.
The turnover hit EGP 4.453 billion through the trading of 955.320 million shares in 92,538 transactions, while the market cap reached EGP 2.183 trillion.
Retail investors equaled 52.52% of the total trading, while the institutions represented the remaining 47.47%.
Foreign and Arab traders accounted for 32.81% and 2.44% of the trading transactions, respectively. The Egyptian investors took over 64.75%.
The Arab investors were buyers with EGP 2.871 million. Egyptian and foreign traders were sellers with EGP 748.561 million and EGP 751.432 million, respectively.