Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) has ended Wednesday’s trading session with mixed performance, with the EGX 30 index as the sole faller.
Market capitalization closed at nearly EGP 1.180 billion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.17%, finishing the session at 17,578.67 points.
The EGX50 equal-weight index (EWI) gained 0.11% to 3,218.62 points, while the small- and mid-cap EGX70 (EWI) added 1.61% to 3,500.48 points.
Meanwhile, the EGX100 fell by 1.08% to close the session at 5,185.97 points.
Trading volume amounted to 677.210 million shares traded through 60,816 transactions at a turnover of EGP 1.596 billion.
Retail investors controlled 74.95% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 25.04% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 85.98% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors represented 7.9% and 6.12%, respectively.
Trading on securities saw Egyptian traders as net sellers with EGP 69.052 million, while Arab and foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 59.514 million and EGP 9.538 million, respectively.