Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange gave a varied performance on Sunday’s trading session to close below 8,225 points.
The main index (EGX30) fell 31.9 points, or 0.39%, to 8,223.6 points, weakened by the downturn of some blue-chip stocks.
GB Auto, Emaar Misr and Orascom Construction were the benchmark index’s best advancers after rising 5.7%, 2.8%, and 1.8% correspondingly.
Meanwhile, the worst performers were Domty (-4.8%), Porto Group (-3.6%), and Global Telecom, (-3.3%).
The small and mid-cap index EGX70 was 0.33% higher to 361.64 points.
Likewise, the broader index EGX100 and the equal-weighted index EGX50 rose respectively 0.11% to 795.35 points and 0.09% to 1,407.93 points.
Trading value reached EGP 478.3 million after 239.3 million shares were traded.
Out of 164 traded stocks, 62 went up; 59 moved down; 43 stayed at their previous marks.
Egyptians and Arab investors were net buyers by EGP 3.4 million and EGP 20.2 million correspondingly, while foreigners were net sellers by EGP 23.6 million.
Market capitalization lost EGP 1.3 billion ($146 million) to end at EGP 417.7 billion against EGP 419 billion on Thursday.
