Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Tuesday’s trading session on a negative note after the EGX30 index retreated by 1.02% to 30,725.96 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also went down by 1.51% to 3,194.1 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index closed the session lower by 2.44% at 8,992.11 points and by 2.22% at 12,234.08 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover reached EGP 3.373 billion through the trading of 865.765 million shares in 101,590 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 2.182 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 74.93% of the total trading, while the institutions represented 25.06%.
The Egyptian investors took over 87.62%, whereas foreign and Arab traders equaled 7.09% and 5.3% of the trading transactions, respectively.
The foreign investors were buyers with EGP 276.666 million. Egyptian and Arab traders were sellers with EGP 177.883 million and EGP 98.782 million, respectively.