Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Thursday’s trading session, the last session of this week and February’s first trade, up on the back of foreign and Arab investors.
The benchmark EGX30 index closed the session up 0.31% or 46.29 points at 15.088.66 points.
Market capitalisation closed at EGP 961.4 billion and gained EGP 2.9 billion.
The EGX70 index added 0.93% to 870.97 points, while the EGX100 index went up 0.75% to 1,057 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index edged up 0.21% to 2,696 points.
Trading volume amounted to 177.4 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.019 billion through 25,900 transactions.
Egyptian investors were mostly net sellers, netting EGP 13 million, while foreign and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 9.4 million and EGP 3.6 million respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB) levelled up 0.84% to EGP 78.93 at a turnover of EGP 51.14 million.
Eastern Co led rising blue chips with a 3.72% increase, followed by SODIC and Global Telecom which rose 1.5% and 1.47% respectively.
On the other hand, Emaar Misr topped declining blue chips with a 2.62% drop, followed by AMOC and Sidi Kerir Petrochemical (Sidpec) which fell 2.37% and 2.12% respectively.
