Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Thursday’s trading mixed, with market capitalization of EGP 1.179 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index went down 0.33%, hitting 17,339.06 points.
The EGX50 equal-weight index (EWI) shrank by 0.45% to stand at 3,144.88 points.
In contrast, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 EWI index grew by 1.70% to end the session at 3,516.56 points, while the EGX100 EWI index gained 1.10% to reach 5,171.05 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.094 million shares exchanged over 70,188 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 2.423 billion.
Retail investors seized 77.67% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 22.32% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 86.06% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 6.7% and 7.24%, respectively.
Egyptian traders were net purchasers with EGP 123.3 million. Non-Arab foreigners and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 66.553 million and EGP 56.748 million, respectively.