Arab Finance: The Egyptian Stock Exchange ended the trading session today, Sunday – the first session of the week – with a collective decline in the movement of indicators. The main index of the market, the EGX30 – which includes the 30 largest listed companies, closed with a decrease of 2.63% at the level of 29,954.12 points.
As for the EGX SHARIAH index, it closed with a decrease of 3.22%, achieving 3,105.88 points.
The EGX70 EWI for small and medium stocks also fell by 1.87%, closing at the end of the session at 7329.36 points.
The broader EGX 100 index closed 2.29% lower at 10,398.66.
Regarding the total value of trades, it amounted to 4 billion Egyptian pounds, with a total number of transactions amounting to 127,557 transactions.
The market capitalization of the Egyptian Stock Exchange at the end of trading was 2.1 trillion Egyptian pounds.
The shares of 49 companies rose, while the shares of 130 companies decreased, and the shares of 28 companies did not change.
In terms of transactions by individuals and institutions, data from the Egyptian Stock Exchange website showed that individual transactions accounted for 78.88% of total market trades, while institutions accounted for 21.11% of trades.
The data also indicated that Arab traders today accounted for 3.46% of total transactions, while foreign transactions recorded 2.05% and Egyptians 94.5%.
The total transactions of Arab and foreign investors went towards selling, with a total value of 4.3 million pounds and 103.5 million pounds, respectively, while the net transactions of Egyptians went towards buying, with a total value of 107.9 million pounds.
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