Cairo - Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Thursday’s trading session in red territory, pressured by Arab investors’ sell-off.
The benchmark EGX30 index gave up its early gains and fell 199.16 points, or 1.5%, to finish the last session of the week at 12,398 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 index fell 0.17% to 661,030 points, while the EGX100 index dropped 0.33% to 1,647 points.
The equally-weighted EGX50 index shed 0.88% to 2,051 points.
The bourse’s traded volume amounted to 123.5 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 590.4 million through 21,090 transactions.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 21.4 million, while foreign and Egyptian investors were net buyers with EGP 21.3 million and EGP 125.4 million, respectively.
Market capitalisation lost EGP 6.2 billion and closed at EGP 712.8 billion.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank – Egypt's (CIB) stock , which slipped 4.01% to EGP 68.5, generated a turnover of EGP 75.88 million.
