Cairo - Mubasher: The Central Bank of Egypt maintained the Egyptian pound unchanged at 7.73 per dollar in an auction Tuesday.
The bank sold $39.4 million to banks in its regular dollar sale auction.
Earlier, CBE said it will hold an exceptional dollar sale auction in the coming period to inject dollar liquidity needed to import commodities
Last November, CBE allowed the Egyptian pound, for the first time in 2015,to rise against the dollar by EGP 0.20 to reach EGP 7.7301
In October, the central bank allowed the pound to depreciate twice against the dollar by around EGP 0.10 to reach a historical level of 7.93 per dollar.
CBE announced earlier that net international reserves reached $16.41 billion at the end of October, up $80 million from $16.33 billion at September-end.
