Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Thursday, with the EGX30 index up 0.65% to 43,684.22 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah, decreased by 1.39% to 4,592.01 points.
The EGX35-LV also ended the session down by 1.19% to 4,592.1 points.
Both the EGX70 index and EGX100 index ended the trading session lower by 1.36% at 12,707.49 points and by 1.45% at 17,004.38 points, respectively.
A total of 1.651 billion shares were exchanged at a value of EGP 5.997 billion over 136,984 transactions, while the market cap amounted to EGP 3.023 trillion.
Egyptian investors controlled 85.6% of the trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders made up 7.28% and 7.12%, respectively.
Retail investors represented 69.71% of the total trading, while institutions accounted for 30.28%.
Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 39.670 million and EGP 124.894 million, respectively. Meanwhile, foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 164.565 million.