Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices showed mixed performance on Wednesday, with market capitalization of EGP 1.170 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index edged down 0.48%, hitting 17,396.24 points.
The EGX50 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.22% to stand at 3,159.13 points.
On the other hand, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 EWI index gained 1.80% to end the session at 3,457.83 points, while the EGX100 EWI index added 1.25% to 5,114.6 points.
Today’s trading saw 471.367 million shares exchanged over 51,325 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 1.054 billion.
As regards investor’s trading activity, retail investors seized 69.39% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 30.60% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 86% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 6.07% and 7.93%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net purchasers with EGP 36.111 million and EGP 24.671 million, respectively. Non-Arab foreigners were net sellers with EGP 60.781 million.