Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Wednesday’s trading session in the green zone after the EGX30 went up by 2.58% to 31,640.22 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, increased by 1.32% to 3,257.39 points.
Both the EGX70 index as well as the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 1.27% at 9,227.49 points and by 1.47% at 12,607.04 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover amounted to EGP 3.859 billion through the exchange of 1.379 billion shares over 102,874 transactions, while the market capitalization hit EGP 2.243 trillion.
Retail investors represented 75.22% of the total trading, while the institutions equaled the remaining 24.77%.
Egyptian investors controlled 88.27% of trading transactions, whereas foreign and Arab traders accounted for 6.06% and 5.67%, respectively.
The Egyptian and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 69.526 million and EGP 46.275 million, respectively. The Arab traders were buyers with EGP 115.802 million.