Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Tuesday’s trading session in the red zone, with the EGX30 index down 0.68% to 51,265.27 points.
The Shariah index fell by 0.58% to 6,297.03 points, while the EGX35-LV dropped by 1.22% to 6,119.21 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index closed the session lower by 2.74% at 17,917.04 points and by 2.16% at 23,997.29 points, respectively.
A total of 2.439 billion shares were exchanged at EGP 9.838 billion over 273,328 transactions, with the market cap hitting EGP 3.999 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 75.24% of trading transactions, while institutions made up 24.75%.
Egyptians dominated 86.08% of total trading, while foreign and Arab investors accounted for 12.06% and 1.86%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 221.467 million and EGP 44.532 million, respectively. Meanwhile, foreign investors were buyers with EGP 266 million.
