Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Thursday’s trading session on a mixed note amid local and non-Arab buying against Arab selling.
By 10:26 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index edged up 99.33 points, or 0.61%, to 16,483.4 points on the back of Commercial International Bank (CIB).
The heavyweight CIB grew 1.43% to EGP 85.01 at a turnover of EGP 25.7 million.
The EGX70 index levelled up 0.14% to 885.21 points, while the EGX100 index added 0.45% to 2,221 points.
On the other hand, the equal-weighted EGX50 index dipped 0.07% to 2,773 points.
Trading volume stood at around 16.1 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 160.7 million through 3,030 transactions.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 25.6 million, while non-Arab and Egyptian investors were net buyers with EGP 17.7 million and EFP 7.8 million, respectively.
