Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closes Sunday’s trading session on a negative note.

The benchmark EGX30 index lost 1.97%, finishing the session at 14,843.05 points.  

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) fell by 0.95% to 2,836.84 points.  

Meanwhile, the EGX100 index dropped by 1.11% to 4,167.52 points, while the EGX50 EWI index went down by 1.48% to 2,594.03 points.  

Trading volume amounted nearly to 909.12 million shares exchanged through 77,984 transactions at a turnover of EGP 1.98 billion.  

Market capitalization closed today’s trading session at EGP 960.018 billion.  

Retail investors controlled 77.33% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 22.66% of trading.  

Egyptian traders made up 85.81% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign (non-Arab) investors made up 11.84% and 2.35% respectively.  

Egyptian traders were net buyers with EGP 85.28 million, while Arab and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 24.91 million and EGP 60.36 million, respectively.