Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Tuesday’s trading session mixed amid Egyptian and Arab selling, against foreign buying.
The benchmark EGX30 index shed 191.95 points, or 1.09%, to 17,492 points.
Market capitalisation lost EGP 6.6 billion and closed at EGP 978.29 billion.
The small- and medium-caps EGX70 index slid 0.29% to 874.8 points, while the broader EGX100 index levelled up 0.23% to 2,257 points.
Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 70.6 million, while Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 14.6 million and EGP 56 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) dipped 0.13% to EGP 88, with a turnover of EGP 32.87 million.
Trading volume amounted to nearly 688 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 2.3 billion through 46,000 transactions.
TMG Holding topped rising blue chips with 9.21%, followed by Arab Cotton Ginning and Elsewedy Electric which rose 4.86% and 3.48%, respectively.
On the other hand, Global Telecom led top losers with 15.89%, followed by Emaar Misr and Qalaa Holdings which fell 6.04% and 5.71%, respectively.
