Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a positive performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 rising by 2.83% to 50,650.18 points.
Both the Shariah index and EGX35-LV climbed by 2.49% to 6,054.72 points and 5,815.64 points, respectively.
The EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 3.02% at 171,51.55 points and by 2.98% to 23,011.03 points, respectively.
A total of 2.341 billion shares were exchanged over 251,500 transactions at a trading value of EGP 11.209 billion. Meanwhile, the market cap amounted to EGP 3.989 trillion.
Retail investors accounted for 60.88% of trading transactions, while institutions represented 39.11%.
Egyptians dominated 91.16% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors made up 6.66% and 2.18%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 336.561 million and EGP 50.299 million, respectively. Egyptian traders were sellers with EGP 386.861 million.
The EGX announced the execution of block-trading transactions at a combined value of EGP 2.205 billion on November 4.
