Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) finished Wednesday’s trading session on a positive note, as the EGX30 index climbed by 0.70% to 52,928.06 points.
The EGX33 Shariah index also rose by 0.54% to 5,950.19 points, while the EGX35-LV increased by 0.53% to 6,259 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session higher by 1.54% at 17,049.97 points and by 1.24% at 22,887.36 points, respectively.
A total of 3.685 billion shares were traded at EGP 11.962 billion over 231,449 transactions, while the market cap hit EGP 3.887 trillion.
Retail investors dominated 80.13% of total trading transactions, while institutions accounted for 19.86% of trading.
Egyptian traders took over 90.07% of total trading transactions, while foreign and Arab investors represented 5.58% and 4.35%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 151.600 million and EGP 242.408 million, respectively. Meanwhile, foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 414.009 million.
