Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Thursday’s trading session in the green zone, as the EGX30 index rose by 1.52% to 52,273.34 points.
The Shariah index went up by 0.48% to 6,378.9 points, while the EGX35-LV climbed by 0.70% to 6,246.22 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index closed the session higher by 0.82% at 18,481.55 points and by 0.80% to 24,607.43 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover hit EGP 7.041 billion through the trading of 1.840 billion shares over 192,935 transactions. The market cap hit EGP 4.051 trillion.
Retail investors accounted for 67.91% of trading transactions, while institutions represented 32.08%.
Egyptians controlled 84.41% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors made up 12.14% and 3.45%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 54.924 million and EGP 15.712 million, respectively. Egyptian investors were buyers with EGP 70.636 million.
