Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) finished Tuesday’s trading session with a mixed note after the EGX30 index declined by 0.41% to 40,261.16 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah, shed by 0.61% to 4,128.62 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 ended the trading session higher by 0.26% at 12,137.28 points and by 0.05% at 16,085.49.
On the other hand, the EGX35-LV edged up by 0.01% to 4,415.37 points.
EGX’s turnover stood at EGP 6.342 billion through the exchange of 1.484 billion shares over 144,147 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 2.886 trillion.
Egyptians represented 89.09% of the trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders equaled 5.48% and 5.42%, respectively.
Individual investors controlled 72.14% of the total trading, while institutions accounted for 27.85%.
Arab investors were sellers with EGP 89.097 million. Egyptian and foreign traders were buyers with EGP 59.136 million and EGP 29.960 million, respectively.