Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading on a positive note, backed by purchases of foreign investors.
The benchmark EGX30 index rose 1.04% or 115.8 points to the level of 11,261.82 points.
Similarly, the EGX70 index grew 0.45% or 2.02 points to 446.97 points, the EGX100 index leapt 0.66% or 6.95 points to 1,059.04 points and the equal weighted index EGX50 advanced 1.85% or 32.55 points to 1,790.23 points.
Turnover increased 5.73% to EGP 1.479 billion as 363.349 million shares were exchanged, with 104 stocks closes in green, 48 other declined and the remaining 32 stocks were flat.
Misr Hotels, AL Ezz Dekhela Steel, Oriental Weavers Carpet and El Wadi for Touristic Investment topped the green list, while Middle and West Delta Flour Mills, Alexandria National Company for Financial Investment and Nozha International Hospital led the red list.
Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding was the largest-traded stock with a volume of 53.123 million shares exchanged at EGP 61 million, while Global Telecom Holding made the highest turnover of EGP 182 million.
Net purchases of Arab and foreign investors reached EGP 19.147 million and EGP 193.2 million respectively, while net sales by Egyptian investors amounted to EGP 212,396 million.
