Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Thursday’s trading session up, bolstered by Arab and foreign buying.
By 10:30 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index ascended 0.45% or 59.91 points to the level of 13,377.80 points.
The EGX70 index edged up 0.18% to 688.50 points, while the EGX100 index grew 0.27% to 1,561.73 points.
The equally-weighted EGX50 index added 0.27% to 2,087 points.
Trading volume stood at 38.25 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 96.6 million through 2,600 transactions.
Foreign and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 244,700 and EGP 6.3 million, respectively, while Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 6.6 million.
Blue chips including Egyptian resorts, Amer Group, Porto Group Holding levelled up 3.6%, 3.23%, and 2.33%, respectively.
On the other hand, Citadel Capital, Egyptian Financial and Industrial (EFIC), and Ezz Steel tumbled 0.78%, 0.44%, and 0.06%, respectively.
Commercial International Bank – Egypt inched up 0.06% to EGP 82.5.
