Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Wednesday’s trading session in the red zone, with the EGX30 index down 1.64% to 49,281.24 points.
The Shariah index declined by 1.55% to 5,831.83 points, while the EGX35-LV fell by 0.84% to 5,674.2 points.
Likewise, both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index finished the session lower by 0.35% at 16,327.27 points and by 0.59% at 22,137.9 points, respectively.
A total of 2.213 billion shares were exchanged at EGP 6.729 billion over 210,558 transactions, with the market cap hitting EGP 3.859 trillion.
Individuals controlled 78.14% of trading transactions, while institutions represented 21.85%.
Egyptians took over 89.18% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors represented 8.77% and 2.05%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 173.121 million and EGP 29.765 million, respectively. Meanwhile, Egyptian investors were buyers with EGP 202.886 million.
