Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Tuesday, with the EGX30 falling by 0.70% to 30,844.18 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went down by 0.31% to 3,214.89 points.
On the other hand, the EGX70 index as well as the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 0.83% at 9,112.11 points and by 0.46% at 12,424.23 points, respectively.
The turnover amounted to EGP 2.861 billion through the exchange of 1.239 billion shares over 93,060 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.199 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 77.40% of the total trading, while the institutions made up the remaining 22.59%.
Egyptian investors took over 89.14% of trading transactions, whereas foreign and Arab traders represented 6.43% and 4.42%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 131.430 million and EGP 4.401 million, respectively. The Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 135.832 million.