Arab Finance: The Egyptian Stock Exchange ended the trading session today, Tuesday, with a collective decline in the movement of indices. The main market index, EGX30 – which includes the 30 largest listed companies, closed with a decrease of 3.04% at the level of 30,851.63 points.
As for the EGX SHARIAH index, it closed with a decrease of 3.69%, achieving 3154.87 points.
The EGX70 EWI for small and medium-sized stocks also fell by 2.58%, closing at the end of the session at 7,376.32 points.
The broader EGX 100 index closed down 2.81% at 10,523.86 points.
Regarding the total value of trades, it amounted to 6.1 billion Egyptian pounds, with a total number of transactions amounting to 145,732 transactions.
The market capitalization of the Egyptian Stock Exchange at the end of trading was 2.1 trillion Egyptian pounds.
The shares of 22 companies rose, while the shares of 163 companies decreased, and the shares of 26 companies remained unchanged.
In terms of transactions by individuals and institutions, data from the Egyptian Stock Exchange website showed that individual transactions accounted for 65.26% of total market trades, while institutions accounted for 34.73% of trades.
The data also indicated that Arab traders today accounted for 6.92% of total transactions, while foreign transactions recorded 8.54% and Egyptians 84.54%.
The total transactions of Arab and foreign investors went towards selling, with a total value of 19.3 million pounds and 234.1 million pounds, respectively, while the net transactions of Egyptians went towards buying, with a total value of 253.5 million pounds.
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