Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a negative performance on Monday, with the EGX30 down 0.70% to 48,403.14 points.

The Shariah index retreated by 1.10% to 5,796.77 points, while the EGX35-LV declined by 2.14% to 5,617.72 points.

Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index closed the session lower by 2.23% at 16,293.71 points and by 2.22% to 21,912.4 points, respectively.

The turnover amounted to EGP 10.028 billion after trading 2.191 billion shares over 298,650 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 3.832 trillion.

Retail investors controlled 74.11% of trading transactions, while institutions made up 25.88%.

Egyptians took over 85.77% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors accounted for 10.92% and 3.3%, respectively.

Arab and Egyptian traders were net buyers with EGP 81.080 million and EGP 57.113 million, respectively. Foreign traders were sellers with EGP 138.193 million.