BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 16.38 | Sell 16.51
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 16.4 | Sell 16.5
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 16.45 | Sell 16.5
EGX30 (Wednesday): 12,448.35 (-0.44%)
Turnover: EGP 861.1 mn (98% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +0.838%
THE MARKET ON WEDNESDAY: The EGX30 ended Wednesday’s session 0.4% down. The top performing constituents were Oriental Weavers, Domty, and Amer Group. Wednesday’s worst performing stocks included Global Telecom, Orascom Construction, and Juhayna. The market turnover was EGP 0.9 bn and foreign investors were the sole net sellers.
Foreigners: Net short | EGP -12.0 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP +11.2 mn
Domestic: Net long | EGP +0.8 mn
Retail: 60.2% of total trades | 55.6% of buyers | 64.8% of sellers
Institutions: 39.8% of total trades | 44.4% of buyers | 35.2% of sellers
Foreign: 23.8% of total | 23.1% of buyers | 24.5% of sellers
Regional: 5.2% of total | 5.8% of buyers | 4.5% of sellers
Domestic: 71.0% of total | 71.1% of buyers | 71.0% of sellers
WTI: USD 53.11 (-0.17%)
Brent: USD 55.7 (-0.48%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 2.93 MMBtu, (+0.69%, March 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,233.10 / troy ounce (+0.63%)
TASI: 7,073.69 (+0.58%) (YTD: -1.90%)
ADX: 4,596.69 (+0.53%) (YTD: +1.11%)
DFM: 3,645.01 (-0.21%) (YTD: +3.23%)
KSE Weighted Index: 428.95 (+1.15%) (YTD: +12.85%)
QE: 10,731.53 (+0.57%) (YTD: +2.82%)
MSM: 5,831.21 (+0.21%) (YTD: +0.84%)
BB: 1,321.55 (+1.00%) (YTD: +8.28%)