The weekly report of the Egyptian Stock Exchange revealed that it achieved profits of about 36.7 billion pounds during the sessions of the ending week, to close the market capital at the level of 1.276 trillion pounds, as there were many events for the stock exchange during this week, including Ahmed El Sheikh assuming the presidency of the stock exchange and also Egypt joining the BRICS and there is a first formation Egyptian Federation for Securities.
The main index of the Egyptian Stock Exchange, “EGX30”, increased by 3.66% to close at the level of 18,873.82 points, during the week-ending sessions – the last week in August – and the index of small and medium stocks, “EGX70 of equal weights”, rose by 3.44%, to close at the level of 3829.51. points, and the “EGX 100 index of equal weights” recorded a growth of 2.83%, to close at the level of 5597.80 points, and the “EGX 30 index of equal weights” recorded a growth of 2.8%, to close at the level of 22708.89 points, while the Excellence index decreased by 0.53%, to close at the level of 5450.78 points.
As for trading, the total trading value on the Egyptian Stock Exchange rose to 24.2 billion pounds during the week ending, while the volume of trading amounted to about 4.216 billion papers executed on 445 thousand transactions, compared to a total trading value of 12.1 billion pounds, and the volume of trading amounted to 3.434 billion papers executed on 387 thousand transactions during the past week, and stocks accounted for 55.88% of the total trading value inside the booth, while the trading value of bonds represented about 44.12%, according to the weekly report of the Egyptian Stock Exchange.
The trading totals of the companies listed in the stock indices were distributed between 6.9 billion pounds in the main index of the stock exchange, with a trading volume of 909.6 million executed securities, and the number of transactions of 141.7 thousand transactions, and the trading value of “EGX70” amounted to about 3.7 billion pounds, with a trading volume of 2.1 billion executed securities. Through 183.1 thousand transactions, the value of trading in “EGX 100” amounted to about 10.6 billion pounds, with a volume of trading of 3 billion securities executed through 324.8 thousand transactions.