The Market Yesterday
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 17.5974 | Sell 17.6968
EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 17.58 | Sell 17.68
EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.60 | Sell 17.70
EGX30 (Thursday): 14,319 (+0.3%)
Turnover: EGP 1.6 bn (66% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: 16.0%
THE MARKET ON THURSDAY: The EGX30 ended Thursday’s session up 0.3%. CIB, the index heaviest constituent ended down 0.7%. EGX30’s top performing constituents were: Egyptian Iron & Steel up 5.9%, SODIC up 3.6%, and Egyptian Resorts up 3.3%. Thursday’s worst performing stocks were: Palm Hills down 2.2%, Arab Cotton Ginning down 2.0%, and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank down 1.9%. The market turnover was EGP 1.6 bn, and local investors were the sole net buyers.
Foreigners: Net Short | EGP -76.4 mn
Regional: Net Short | EGP -2.1 mn
Domestic: Net Long | EGP +78.5 mn
Retail: 69.2% of total trades | 67.2% of buyers | 71.1% of sellers
Institutions: 30.8% of total trades | 32.8% of buyers | 28.9% of sellers
Foreign: 11.5% of total | 9.1% of buyers | 14.0% of sellers
Regional: 16.4% of total | 16.3% of buyers | 16.5% of sellers
Domestic: 72.1% of total | 74.6% of buyers | 69.5% of sellers
WTI: USD 55.64 (+2.02%)
Brent: USD 62.07 (+2.39%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 2.98 MMBtu (+1.67%, December 2017 contract)
Gold: USD 1,269.20 / troy ounce (-0.70%)
TASI: 6,956.51 (+0.12%) (YTD: -3.52%)
ADX: 4,465.15 (-0.45%) (YTD: -1.79%)
DFM: 3,622.24 (-0.34%) (YTD: +2.59%)
KSE Weighted Index: 418.96 (-0.07%) (YTD: +10.23%)
QE: 8,146.23 (-0.31%) (YTD: -21.95%)
MSM: 5,040.19 (-0.17%) (YTD: -12.84%)
BB: 1,282.85 (+0.29%) (YTD: +5.11%)