Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Monday’s trading on a mixed note amid foreign and Arab buying.
By 10:45 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index went up 0.62% or 82.54 points to the level of 13,108.83 points.
The EGX70 index declined 0.47% to 679.30 points, while the EGX100 index shed 0.17% to 1,544.98 points.
The equally-weighted EGX50 index edged up 0.23% to 2,028 points.
Blue chips including Extracted Oils, Porto Group Holding, and Oriental Weavers rose 2.96%, 2.56%, and 2.21%, respectively.
Commercial International Bank – Egypt (CIB) ascended 1.18% to EGP 81.58.
Egyptian Iron and Steel (HADISOLB), Egyptian Chemical Industries (Kima), and Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals slipped 0.98%, 0.94%, and 0.73%, respectively.
Trading volume stood at 77.15 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 101.06 million through 2,700 transactions.
Foreign and Arab investors were net buyers by EGP 2.4 million and EGP 10.96 million, respectively, while Egyptian investors were net sellers by EGP 13.3 million.
