BY THE NUMBERS
USD CBE auction (Thursday, 27 Oct): 8.78 (unchanged since 16 March 2016)
USD parallel market (Saturday, 29 Oct): North of 17.00 (from 16.10 on Wednesday morning, 26 Oct, Al Borsa)
EGX30 (Thursday): 8,343.31 (+1.04%)
Turnover: EGP 610.58 mn (40% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +19.08%
THE MARKET ON THURSDAY: EGX30 rose 1.0% on the day. The top performing constituents were Domty, Edita Food Industries, and ACC. Eastern Company was the only constituent to close in the red. EGX30’s largest constituent, CIB, was up 1.0% on the day. At a market turnover of EGP 610.6 mn, regional investors were the sole net buyers.
Foreigners: Net short | EGP -7.1 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP +29.9 mn
Domestic: Net short | EGP -22.8 mn
Retail: 66.0% of total trades | 61.9% of buyers | 70.1% of sellers
Institutions: 34.0% of total trades | 38.1% of buyers | 20.9% of sellers
Foreign: 14.4% of total | 13.8% of buyers | 15.0% of sellers
Regional: 12.8% of total | 15.2% of buyers | 10.3% of sellers
Domestic: 72.8% of total | 71.0% of buyers | 74.7% of sellers
WTI: USD 48.70 (-2.05%)
Brent: USD 49.71 (-1.51%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.11 MMBtu, (+0.29%, December 2016 contract)
Gold: USD 1,276.80 / troy ounce (+0.58%)
TASI: 5,936.3 (+0.9%) (YTD: -14.1%)
ADX: 4,292.5 (+0.6%) (YTD: -0.3%)
DFM: 3,318.4 (+0.4%) (YTD: +5.3%)
KSE Weighted Index: 357.9 (-0.4%) (YTD: -6.2%)
QE: 10,371.2 (+0.1%) (YTD: -0.6%)
MSM: 5,497.1 (-0.3%) (YTD: +1.7%)
BB: 1,148.2 (+0.3%) (YTD: -5.6%)