Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Wednesday’s trading session on a mixed note, with the benchmark EGX30 index being the sole riser.
Market capitalization concluded the session at EGP 1.839 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index inched up 0.01%, finishing the session at 27,227.44 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) lost 0.35% to end the session at 5,891.86 points, while the EGX100 EWI shed 0.16%, closing at 8,536.77 points.
Today’s trading saw 688.617 million shares exchanged over 89,964 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 4.015 billion.
Retail investors controlled 59.96% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 40.03% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 69.3% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 12.19% and 18.51%, respectively.
Non-Arab foreigners were net sellers with EGP 553.568 million. Egyptians and non-Arab foreign investors were net purchasers with EGP 26.631 million and EGP 526.937 million, respectively.