BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 18.6570 | Sell 18.8176
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 18.651 | Sell 18.751
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 18.5 | Sell 18.6
EGX30 (Wednesday): 13,089.05 (+0.57%)
Turnover: EGP 1.259 bn (189% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +6.02%
THE MARKET ON WEDNESDAY: The EGX ended Wednesday’s session 0.6% up, with heavyweight CIB supporting the index as its share price rose 0.8%. Yesterday’s top performing stocks were ACC, up 9.9%, Cairo Oils and Soap, up 5.0%, and Elsewedy Electric, up 4.1%, while the worst performing stocks included Telecom Egypt, down 4.2%, Arabia Investments, down 3.7%, and Porto Group, down 3.2%. The market turnover was EGP 1.3 bn and local investors were the sole net sellers.
Foreigners: Net long | EGP +91.8 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP +9.6 mn
Domestic: Net short | EGP -101.4 mn
Retail: 70.0% of total trades | 70.2% of buyers | 69.8% of sellers
Institutions: 30.0% of total trades | 29.8% of buyers | 30.2% of sellers
Foreign: 13.7% of total | 17.3% of buyers | 10.0% of sellers
Regional: 5.8% of total | 6.2% of buyers | 5.4% of sellers
Domestic: 80.5% of total | 76.5% of buyers | 84.6% of sellers
WTI: USD 52.26 (+0.02%)
Brent: USD 55.10 (+2.72%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.30 MMBtu, (+2.33%, February 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,193.60 / troy ounce (-0.25%)
TASI: 6,894.65 (-1.62%) (YTD: -4.38%)
ADX: 4,662.86 ( -0.12%) (YTD: +2.56%)
DFM: 3,721.62 (-0.09%) (YTD: +5.40%)
KSE Weighted Index: 390.78 (+0.53%) (YTD: +2.81%)
QE: 10,704.29 (+0.04%) (YTD: +2.56%)
MSM: 5,795.89 (+0.28%) (YTD: +0.23%)
BB: 1,208.84 (-0.10%) (YTD: -0.95%)