Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Tuesday’s trading session, the first session following the Easter and Sham El Nessim holidays, up on the back of local and Arab buying.
By 10:36 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index opened the session up 79.74 points, or 0.46%, to 17,490 points.
The EGX70 index added 0.50% to 869.83 points, and the EGX100 index went up 0.49% to 2,249 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index grew 0.9% to 3,004 points.
Trading volume stood at around 32.12 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 219.8 million through 4,600 transactions.
Foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 13.6 million, while Egyptian and Arab were net buyers with EGP 6.4 million and EGP 7.13 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) edged up 0.18% to EGP 88.
