Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading session on a negative note after the EGX30 index declined by 1.14% to 51,613.92 points.
The EGX33 Shariah index also went down by 1.92% to 6,333.49 points.
Likewise, the EGX35-LV retreated by 2.69% to finish at 6,194.99 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session lower by 4.33% at 18,421.83 points and by 3.52% at 24,525.91 points, respectively.
The EGX’s turnover hit EGP 7.434 billion through the exchange of 2.077 billion shares over 217,623 transactions. Meanwhile, the market cap reached EGP 4.052 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 73.89% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors accounted for 26.1% of trading.
Egyptian traders represented 85.82% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors represented 2.53% and 11.65%, respectively.
Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 67.925 million. Egyptian and foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 42.412 million and EGP 25.513 million, respectively.
