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

The benchmark EGX30 index added 0.72%, finishing the session at 15,068.13 points.  

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) climbed by 1.90% to 2,931.03 points.  

Meanwhile, the EGX100 index jumped by 1.57% to 4,326.04 points, while the EGX50 EWI index rose by 0.77% to 2,695.43 points.  

Trading volume amounted nearly to 1.406 billion shares exchanged through 86,650 transactions at a turnover of EGP 2.264 billion.  

Market capitalization closed today’s trading session at EGP 991.636 billion.  

Retail investors controlled 79.97% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 20.02% of trading.  

Egyptian traders made up 86.59% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign (non-Arab) investors made up 7.3% and 6.11% respectively.  

Foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 58.06 million, while Egyptian and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 51.25 billion and EGP 6.80 million, respectively.