Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading session on a positive note.

The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.93%, finishing the session at 14,723.71 points.  

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 0.24% to 2,751.56 points.  

Meanwhile, the EGX100 index rose by 0.45% to 4,041.27 points, while the EGX50 EWI index went up by 0.84% to 2,518.58 points.  

Trading volume amounted to nearly 865.287 million shares exchanged through 91,259 transactions at a turnover of EGP 3.068 billion.  

Market capitalization closed today’s trading session at EGP 944.84 billion.  

Retail investors controlled 53.99% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 46% of trading.  

Egyptian traders made up 71.89% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign (non-Arab) investors made up 19.75% and 8.36% respectively.  

Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 524.497 million, while Egyptian and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 425.03 million and EGP 99.467 million, respectively.