Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Sunday’s trading session on a positive note, with the EGX30 index up by 2.48% to 42,895.41 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah, also rose by 2.19% to 4,701.87 points.
Likewise, the EGX35-LV went up by 1.52% to 4,672.96 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 0.28% at 12,978.15 points and by 0.90% to 17,373.8 points, respectively.
A total of 1.726 billion shares were exchanged at a value of EGP 5.792 billion over 136,706 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 3.038 trillion.
Egyptian investors took over 90.98% of the trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders made up 5.97% and 3.05%, respectively.
Retail investors controlled 73.83% of the total trading, while institutions accounted for 26.16%.
Arab and foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 36.865 million and EGP 193.818 million, respectively. Egyptian traders were net sellers with EGP 230.684 million.