Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Tuesday’s trading session, the first session of 2017, up on the back of foreign buying.
The benchmark EGX30 index inched up 0.03% or 4.62 points to 15,023.76.
The EGX70 index went up 0.93% to 835.36 points, while the EGX100 index edged up 0.54% to 1,982.32 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index added 0.96% to 2,593 points.
Trading volume stood at 193.2 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 603 million through 20,900 transactions.
Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 26.7 million, while Arab and Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 19.08 million and EGP 7.6 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) fell 1.61% to EGP 25 at a turnover of EGP 8.4 million.
Market capitalisation closed at EGP 828.9 billion, gaining EGP 4 billion.
