Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) saw a varied performance at Thursday’s close, with the EGX33 Shariah index being the sole faller.
Market capitalization concluded the session at EGP 2.115 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index went up 0.10%, closing the session at 31,029.7 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 (EWI) added 0.36% to end at 7,254.36 points, while the EGX100 inched up 0.20%, wrapping up the session at 10,351.12 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, lost 0.04%, concluding the session at 3,006.91 points.
Today’s trading saw million 1.364 billion shares exchanged over 123,708 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 5.548 billion.
Respecting, investor’s trading activity, retail investors seized 81.78% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 18.21% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 90.68% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 3.38% and 5.94%, respectively.
Egyptian and non-Arab foreign traders were net purchasers with EGP 1.688 million and EGP 102.673 million, respectively. Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 104.36 million.
