Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Monday’s trading in the green zone, backed by purchases by local investors.
The benchmark EGX30 index rose 0.39% or 44.89 points to the level of 11,443.45 points, by 10:25am Cairo time.
The EGX70 index, also, advanced 0.19% to 4,455.33 points and the EGX100 index levelled up 0.24% to 1,071.8 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index leapt 0.62% to the level of 1,848.49 points.
Trading volume reached 47.9 million shares exchanged at QAR 164.5 million, with 32 stocks came on the green list, 28 others declined and 28 unchanged stocks.
Purchases by local investors amounted to EGP 8.06 million, while sales by Arab and foreign investors reached EGP 5.7 million and EGP 2.27 million respectively.
Commercial International Bank (CIB) fell 0.4% to EGP 66.76 as 169,000 shares were exchanged at EGP 11.3 million.
