Cairo – Mubasher: Foreign sell-offs weighed on the indices of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) at Sunday’s closing.
The benchmark EGX30 index fell 190.23 points, or 1.45%, ending the first trading session of this week at 12,974.35 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 index tumbled 0.61% to 674.06 points, while the EGX100 index shed 0.85% to 1,684.36 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index went down 1.2% to 2,119.6 points.
Market capitalisation lost EGP 7.2 billion and finished the session at EGP 737.67 billion.
Trading volume amounted to around 101.4 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 399.2 million through 16,200 transactions.
Foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 3.34 million, whereas Egyptian and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 1.1 million and EGP 2.22 million, respectively.
