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

The benchmark EGX30 index gained 1.5%, finishing the session at 15,378.28 points.  

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 1.99% to 2,882.72 points.  

Meanwhile, the EGX100 index rose by 1.64% to 4,247.39 points, while the EGX50 EWI index went up by 1.72% to 2,665.22 points.  

Trading volume amounted to nearly 1.406 billion shares exchanged through 108,285 transactions at a turnover of EGP 3.85 billion.  

Market capitalization closed today’s trading session at EGP 984.74 billion.  

Retail investors controlled 72.15% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 27.84% of trading.  

Egyptian traders made up 79.76% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign (non-Arab) investors made up 12.19% and 8.05% respectively.  

Egyptian traders were net buyers with EGP 496.701 million, while Arab and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 198.423 million and EGP 298.277 million, respectively.