Arab Finance: The Egyptian Stock Exchange ended the trading session today, Sunday – the first session of the week – with a difference 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 0.77% at the level of 30,397.22 points.
As for the EGX SHARIAH index, it closed with a decrease of 0.79%, achieving 3,137.72 points.
The EGX70 EWI level for small and medium-sized stocks also rose by 0.25%, closing at the end of the session at 8,360.88 points.
The broader EGX 100 index closed down 0.07% at 11,514.66 points.
Regarding the total value of trades, it amounted to 2.4 billion Egyptian pounds, with a total number of transactions amounting to 87,945 transactions.
The market capitalization of the Egyptian Stock Exchange at the end of trading recorded 2.2 trillion Egyptian pounds.
The shares of 53 companies rose, while the shares of 117 companies decreased, and the shares of 40 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 83.41% of total market trades, while institutions accounted for 16.58% of trades.
The data also indicated that Arab traders today accounted for 6.37% of total transactions, while foreign transactions recorded 3.56% and Egyptians 90.07%.
The total transactions of Arab and foreign investors went towards selling, with a total value of 11.2 million pounds and 14.8 million pounds, respectively, while the net transactions of Egyptians went towards buying, with a total value of 26.1 million pounds.
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