(MENAFN– Youm7) The performance of the Egyptian stock market indices varied during the trading session today, Sunday, as 12 sectors increased, led by building materials by 2.7%, followed by the trade and distributors sector by 2.5%, followed by the transport and freight services sector by 1.5%, and the services and industrial products sectors rose. cars, and educational services by 1.4%.
The health care and medicine sector jumped by 1.1%, and the tourism and entertainment, banking, food, beverage, and tobacco sectors increased by 0.8%, 0.6%, and 0.4%, respectively, and finally the communications, media and information technology, basic resources, and real estate sectors increased by 0.2%.
While 4 sectors declined, led by contracting and engineering construction, paper and packaging materials, textiles and durable goods, and non-banking financial services by 0.8%, 0.8%, 0.6%, and 0.4%, respectively.
The Egyptian Stock Exchange ended Sunday’s trading session, the beginning of the week’s sessions, with a collective rise in indices, driven by purchases from foreign dealers, amid high trading, and the market capitalization gained 5 billion pounds, to close at 1.025 billion pounds.
The volume of trading in shares amounted to 449.6 million securities, at a value of 1.7 billion pounds, through the implementation of 64.4 thousand transactions for 197 companies, and the Egyptians’ transactions recorded 91.68% of the total transactions, while foreigners acquired 3.53%, Arabs 4.79%, and institutions acquired 18.84%. Of the transactions in the stock exchange, the rest of the transactions were the share of individuals by 81.15%.
The net transactions of Egyptian and Arab individuals and Arab institutions tended to sell at a value of 22.4 million pounds, 2.3 million pounds, and 20.9 million pounds, respectively, while the net transactions of foreign individuals and Egyptian and foreign institutions tended to buy at a value of 1.8 million pounds, 17.1 million pounds, and 26.8 million pounds, respectively. .
The “EGX30” index rose by 0.06% to close at 15561 points, the “EGX50” index rose by 0.97% to close at the level of 2786 points, and the “EGX30 weighted” index jumped by 0.05% to close at the level of 19096 points. The EGX30 total return index decreased by 0.03%, to close at 6404 points.
The index of small and medium-sized companies, “EGX 70 of equal weights,” increased by 1.18%, to close at the level of 2840 points, and the “EGX 100 index of equal weights” rose by 0.94%, to close at the level of 4274 points, and the Excellence index settled at the level of 3512 points, and the index jumped. Treasury bills increased by 0.05%, to close at 1276 points.
