BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 15.7374 | Sell 15.8379
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 15.75 | Sell 15.85
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 15.73 | Sell 15.78
EGX30 (Monday): 12,444 (-0.8%)
Turnover: EGP 1.3 bn (192% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +0.8%
THE MARKET ON MONDAY: The EGX30 ended Monday’s session down 0.8%. CIB, the index heaviest constituent fell 1.8%. The EGX30’s top performing constituents were: Arab Cotton Ginning up 9.9%, TMG Holding up 9.0%, and Egyptian Resorts up 6.3%. Yesterday’s worst performing stocks included Global Telecom down 5.5%, Crédit Agricole down 2.7%, and Domty down 2.6%. The market turnover was EGP1.3 billion and foreign investors were the sole net sellers.
Foreigners: Net short | EGP -65.4 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP +8.4 mn
Domestic: Net long | EGP +57.0 mn
Retail: 68.6% of total trades | 67.0% of buyers | 70.3% of sellers
Institutions: 31.4% of total trades | 33.0% of buyers | 29.7% of sellers
Foreign: 14.1% of total | 11.6% of buyers | 16.7% of sellers
Regional: 8.1% of total | 8.4% of buyers | 7.7% of sellers
Domestic: 77.8% of total | 80.0% of buyers | 75.6% of sellers
WTI: USD 53.72 (+0.60%)
Brent: USD 56.27 (+0.16%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 2.77 MMBtu, (-2.26%, March 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,235.70 / troy ounce (-0.27%)
TASI: 7,071.9 (-1.0%) (YTD: -1.92%)
ADX: 4,850.2 (-0.9%) (YTD: +0.74%)
DFM: 3,604.0 (-1.1%) (YTD: +2.07%)
KSE Weighted Index: 424.0 (-0.7%) (YTD: +11.55%)
QE: 10,912.8 (0.0%) (YTD: +4.56%)
MSM: 5,852.3 (-0.1%) (YTD: +1.20%)
BB: 1,325.5 (+0.3%) (YTD: +8.61%)