BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 18.0835 | Sell 18.1882
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 18.10 | Sell 18.20
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 18.00 | Sell 18.10
EGX30 (Thursday): 12,995 (+0.1%)
Turnover: EGP 1.1 bn (151% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +5.3%
THE MARKET ON THURSDAY: The EGX30 ended Thursday’s session up 0.1%. CIB, the index heaviest constituent ended 0.8% down. EGX30’s top performing constituents were: Oriental Weavers up 4.6%, Domty up 2.8%, and Madinet Nasr Housing up 2.8%. Thursday’s worst performing stocks included GB Auto down 1.9%, Qalaa Holdings down 1.8%, and Orascom Telecom Media and Technology down 1.3%. The market turnover was EGP1.1 billion, and local investors were the sole net sellers.
Foreigners: Net long | EGP +41.2 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP +23.8 mn
Domestic: Net short | EGP -65.0 mn
Retail: 66.5% of total trades | 67.6% of buyers | 65.4% of sellers
Institutions: 33.5% of total trades | 32.4% of buyers | 34.6% of sellers
Foreign: 19.2% of total | 21.1% of buyers | 17.3% of sellers
Regional: 10.5% of total | 11.6% of buyers | 9.4% of sellers
Domestic: 70.3% of total | 67.3% of buyers | 73.3% of sellers
WTI: USD 50.60 (+0.50%)
Brent: USD 53.53 (+0.75%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.19 MMBtu, (-0.03%, May 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,251.2 / troy ounce (+0.26%)
TASI: 7,001.6 (+0.8%) (YTD: -2.9%)
ADX: 4,443.5 (+0.2%) (YTD: -2.3%)
DFM: 3,480.4 (+1.0%) (YTD: -1.4%)
KSE Weighted Index: 413.3 (+0.1%) (YTD: +8.7%)
QE: 10,390.6 (-0.3%) (YTD: -0.4%)
MSM: 5,550.6 (-0.1%) (YTD: -4.0%)
BB: 1,356.0 (-1.8%) (YTD: +11.1%)