Egyptian stock indexes tended to decline collectively during the past week’s trading, affected by foreign sales.
The main index of the Egyptian Stock Exchange EGX 30 declined during the week’s sessions by 5.19%, to close at 13008 points; compared to 13720 points last week’s close.
The index of medium and small companies, EGX 70 “EWI”, equal weighted by 3.73 percent, to end the week at the level of 1209 points, and the broader index also fell EGX 100 by 3.93 percent to close at 1311 points.
And at the same pace, the index isothermic EGX 50, isothermal, by the end of the week, decreased by 5.29%, to close at the level of 1772 points.
And the market capital lost this week by about 28.6 billion pounds, to close at 667 billion pounds, compared to 695.6 billion pounds last week’s close.
The total trading volume at the end of the week’s trading amounted to 1.44 billion securities at a value of 7.4 billion pounds (of which 3.58 billion pounds for restricted shares, 1.11 billion pounds for unrestricted shares and 2.66 billion pounds for bonds) by carrying out 110 thousand transactions.
This compares to a total trading value of 10.3 billion pounds during last week’s transactions (of which 6.68 billion pounds for restricted shares, 227.64 million pounds for unrestricted shares and 3.34 billion pounds for bonds), with a quantity of 1.17 billion executed papers 85 thousand transactions during the past week.
In terms of investors ’transactions, the transactions of Egyptian investors recorded 64.4 percent of the total transactions on restricted shares, while foreigners accounted for 26.2 percent and Arabs received 9.4 percent, after excluding deals.
The foreigners recorded a net selling value of 162.6 million pounds during the week’s transactions, and the Arabs recorded a net sales value of 29.9 million pounds, after excluding deals.
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