Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) finished Monday’s trading session on a positive note, as the EGX30 index climbed by 0.40% to 53,633.92 points.

The EGX33 Shariah index also rose by 0.29% to 6,047.31 points, while the EGX35-LV increased by 0.34% to 6,386.45 points.

Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 1.51% at 18,124.84 points and by 1.16% at 23,984.11 points, respectively.

A total of 3.503 billion shares were traded through 242,508 transactions at a total value of EGP 11.158 billion, while the market cap hit EGP 3.954 trillion.

Retail investors dominated 80.59% of total trading transactions, while institutions accounted for 19.4% of trading.

Egyptian traders took over 90.72% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors represented 2.75% and 6.53%, respectively.

Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 78.629 million and EGP 51.063 million, respectively. Meanwhile, non-Arab foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 129.693 million.