Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) started Monday in the green, encouraged by foreign investors’ buying.
By 10:22 am Cairo time, the main EGX30 index increased 0.10%, or 13.32 points, to 14,729 points.
The EGX70 index grew 1.55% to 831.14 points and the EGX100 index rose 1.09%, to 1,944.94 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index added 0.39% to 2,600 points.
Trading volume amounted to 20.04 million shares, exchanged through 3,200 transactions, with a liquidity of EGP 109.5 million.
Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 4.47 million, while local and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 4.8 million and EGP 412,190, respectively.
Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals (Sidpec), Alexandria Mineral Oils Co. (AMOC), and Arab Cotton Ginning levelled up 9.5%, 2.83%, and 2.66%, respectively.
Meanwhile, Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development fell 2.54% and Telecom Egypt (TE) decreased 1.52%.
