Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) started Tuesday’s trading session in red territory, dragged down by local buying.
By 10:16 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index slipped 0. 17%, to 16,340.49 points.
The EGX70 index slid 0.4% to 806.75 points, while the EGX100 index went down 0.48% to 2,056 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index shed 1.18% to 2,731 points.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 2.014 million, while foreign and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 243,100 and EGP 1,770, respectively.
Trading volume amounted to nearly 27.7 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 67.7 million through 1,500 transactions.