BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 18.74 | Sell 18.92
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 18.75 | Sell 18.85
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 18.6 | Sell 18.7
EGX30 (Tuesday): 13,436.1 (+1.29%)
Turnover: EGP 1.808 bn (315% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +8.839%
THE MARKET ON TUESDAY: The EGX30 closed Monday’s session up 1.3%. Yesterday’s top performing stocks were Heliopolis Housing, Amer Group, both up 6.1%, and Ezz Steel, up 5.6%. Today’s worst performing stocks included ACC, down 4.7%, Global Telecom, down 3.9%, and Arabia Investments, down 2.5%. Market turnover stood at EGP 1.8 bn, with foreign investors as the sole net buyers of the day.
Foreigners: Net Long | EGP +256.2 mn
Regional: Net Short | EGP -48.1 mn
Domestic: Net Short | EGP -208.1 mn
Retail: 68.1% of total trades | 63.3% of buyers | 72.9% of sellers
Institutions: 31.9% of total trades | 36.7% of buyers | 27.1% of sellers
Foreign: 15.1% of total | 22.2% of buyers | 8.0% of sellers
Regional: 10.3% of total | 8.9% of buyers | 11.6% of sellers
Domestic: 74.6% of total | 68.9% of buyers | 80.4% of sellers
WTI: USD 52.63 (+0.29%)
Brent: USD 55.61 (+0.25%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.43 MMBtu, (+0.64%, February 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,215.40 / troy ounce (+0.21%)
TASI: 6,873.53 (+0.73%) (YTD: -4.67%)
ADX: 4,663.14 (+0.21%) (YTD: +2.57%)
DFM: 3,558.68 (+1.80%) (YTD: +12.94%)
KSE Weighted Index: 409.03 (+2.36%) (YTD: +7.61%)
QE: 10,927.83 (+1.57%) (YTD: +4.71%)
MSM: 5,737.24 (-0.15%) (YTD: -0.79%)
BB: 1,229.38 (+0.74%) (YTD: +0.73%)