Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Sunday’s trading session up on the back of foreign buying.
The benchmark EGX30 index has changed its downward trend to close 76.37 points, or 0.49%, up at 15,519.55 points.
The EGX70 index edged up 0.37% to 864.75 points, while the EGX100 index inched up 0.10% to 2,108 points.
Market capitalisation gained EGP 249.3 million and closed at EGP 892.5 billion.
Trading volume reached about 163.26 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.16 billion through 25,600 transactions.
Egyptian investors were mostly sellers, netting EGP 256.7 million, while non-Arab and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 244.7 million and EGP 11.9 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) went up 0.39% to EGP 77.3 at a turnover of EGP 46.7 million.
