Cairo – Mubasher: The indices of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Monday’s trading session down, pressured by local and foreign selling.
By 10:2 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index slid 70.28 points, or 0.41%, to 17,539 points.
The EGX70 index shed 0.26% to 876.23 points, while the EGX100 index dipped 0.27% to 2,275 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index tumbled 0.42% to 2,992 points.
Trading volume reached nearly 11.16 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 32.44 million through 1,300 transactions.
Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 1.5 million, while foreign and Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 251,400 million and EGP 1.3 million, respectively.
It has not been traded on the heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) yet.
