Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Tuesday on a mixed note amid Arab selling against local and foreign buying.
By 10:30 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index slipped 112.57 points, or 0.66%, to 17,059 points.
The EGX70 index inched up 0.09% to 889.4 points, while the EGX100 index dipped 0.02% to 2,266 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index tumbled 0.18% to 2,857 points.
Trading volume stood at about 38.26 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 141.29 million through 3,200 transactions.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 24.13 million, while foreign and Egyptian investors were net buyers with EGP 12.8 million and EGP 11.2 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) shed 1.48% to EGP 88.4 at a turnover of EGP 16 million.
