Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Tuesday’s trading session on a mixed note amid local and Arab selling, against non-Arab buying.
The benchmark EX30 has changed its upward trend, closing 160.96 points, or 1.085 down at 14,729.75 points.
The EGX70 index slid 0.61% to 843.82 points, while the EGX100 index inched up 0.04% to 2,027 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index shed 0.80% to 2,621 points.
Trading volume amounted to about 243 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.17 billion through 28,670 transactions.
Foreign investors were mostly buyers, netting EGP 20.48 million, while Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 4.8 million and EGP 15.62 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) fell 3.38% to EGP 73.81, its lowest level since 20 December 2017, at a turnover of EGP 138.23 million.
Market capitalisation closed at EGP 849.4 billion and lost EGP 2.6 billion.
