Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading session up, backed by local and foreign buying.
The benchmark EGX30 index inched up 31.42 points, or 0.18%, to 17,620.28 points.
Market capitalisation gained EGP 3.1 billion and closed at EGP 976.5 billion.
The EGX70 index added 0.38% to 867.61 points, and the EGX100 index edged up 0.28% to 2,261 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index went up 0.61% to 3,001 points.
Trading volume on stocks amounted to around 274.8 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.2 billion through 29,280 transactions.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 74.7 million, while foreign and Egyptian investors were net buyers with EGP 20.2 million and EGP 54.5 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) tumbled 0.3% to EGP 86.7, with a turnover of EGP 55.6 million.
