BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 17.8407 | Sell 17.9409
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 17.85 | Sell 17.95
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.82 | Sell 17.92
EGX30 (Tuesday): 13,684 (+1.5%)
Turnover: EGP 1.3 bn (33% below the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +10.8%
THE MARKET ON TUESDAY: The EGX30 ended Tuesday’s session up 1.5%. CIB, the index heaviest constituent ended up 2.3%. EGX30’s top performing constituents were: Porto Group up 6.1%, Qalaa Holdings up 5.2%, and Orascom Telecom Media & Technology up 4.4%. Yesterday’s worst performing stocks were: Domty down 2.2%, Global Telecom down 0.9%, and Telecom Egypt down 0.8%. The market turnover was EGP 1.3 bn, and regional investors were the sole net buyers.
Foreigners: Net Short | EGP -9.7 mn
Regional: Net Long | EGP +68.1 mn
Domestic: Net Short | EGP -58.4 mn
Retail: 63.8% of total trades | 62.3% of buyers | 65.2% of sellers
Institutions: 36.2% of total trades | 37.7% of buyers | 34.8% of sellers
Foreign: 18.6% of total | 18.3% of buyers | 19.0% of sellers
Regional: 10.4% of total | 13.0% of buyers | 7.6% of sellers
Domestic: 71.0% of total | 68.7% of buyers | 73.4% of sellers
WTI: USD 45.77 (+1.62%)
Brent: USD 48.18 (+1.39%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.04 MMBtu, (-0.33%, August 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,217.80 / troy ounce (+0.26%)
TASI: 7,245.39 (+0.12%) (YTD: +0.48%)
ADX: 4,408.66 (+0.24%) (YTD: -3.03%)
DFM: 3,439.88 (+0.64%) (YTD: -2.58%)
KSE Weighted Index: 404.91 (+1.02%) (YTD: +6.53%)
QE: 9,030.16 (+0.39%) (YTD: -13.48%)
MSM: 5,171.19 (+0.24%) (YTD: -10.57%)
BB: 1,311.82 (+0.27%) (YTD: +7.49%)