Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Thursday’s trading session on a positive note, with the EGX30 up 0.99% to 51,152.73 points.
The Shariah index grew by 0.92% to 6,110.64 points, while the EGX35-LV went up by 1.77% to 5,918.8 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index finished the session higher by 2.42% at 17,567.23 points and by 1.96% to 23,461.29 points, respectively.
A total of 2.640 billion shares were exchanged over 288,195 transactions at a trading value of EGP 10.179 billion. The market cap hit EGP 4.050 trillion.
Retail investors took over 75.13% of trading transactions, while institutions equaled 24.86%.
Egyptians dominated 89.45% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors made up 7.96% and 2.59%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 193.480 million and EGP 29.073 million, respectively. Foreign traders were buyers with EGP 222.554 million.
