Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 rising by 1.47% to 52,854.95 points.
The Shariah index also climbed by 0.63% to 6,329.79 points, while the EGX35-LV fell by 0.49% to 6,105.42 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session lower by 0.96% at 17,732.58 points and by 0.55% to 23,881.72 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover amounted to EGP 8.262 billion after trading 2.200 billion shares over 227,858 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 4.065 trillion.
Individuals dominated 75.41% of trading, while institutions accounted for 24.58%. The Egyptians controlled 88.69%, while foreign and Arab investors represented 8.32% and 2.99%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 86.482 million and EGP 30.807 million, respectively. The Egyptians were sellers with EGP 117.290 million.
