Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading session mixed amid the first day of Egypt’s presidential election.
The benchmark EGX30 index edged up 119.65 points, or 0.7%, to 17,104 points.
The EGX70 index slipped 0.36% to 870.63 points, the EGX100 index inched down 0.04% to 2,228 points.
Trading volume amounted to nearly 435.7 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.69 billion through 30,900 transactions.
Market capitalisation gained EGP 1.31 billion and closed at EGP 963.8 billion.
Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 369.8 million, while Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 322.24 million and EGP 47.55 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) went up 0.23% to EGP 87.41 with a turnover of EGP 65.45 million.
Citadel Capital topped rising blue chips with 9.95%, followed by Egyptian Resorts and SODIC which rose 9.65% and 5.99%, respectively.
On the other hand, Arabian Cement led top losers with 4.04%, followed by Amer Group and ORascom Construction which fell 3.03% and 2.62%, respectively.
