Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Sunday’s trading session with a positive performance, with the EGX30 rising by 0.74% to 34,071 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went up by 0.92% to 3,524.34 points.
Both the EGX70 index as well as the EGX100 index also ended the session higher by 1.68% at 10,298.03 points and by 1.50% at 13,937.27 points, respectively.
The turnover stood at EGP 6.314 billion through the exchange of 2.062 billion shares over 136,830 transactions, while market capitalization reached EGP 2.409 trillion.
Retail investors took over 62.82% of the total trading, while the institutions represented the remaining 37.17%.
Egyptian investors controlled 75.54% of trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders accounted for 22.93% and 1.53%, respectively.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 1.167 billion. The Egyptian and foreign traders were buyers with EGP 1.149 billion and EGP 17.833 million, respectively.