Cairo – Mubasher: The indices of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Wednesday’s trading session in green territory on the back of foreign buying.
The benchmark EGX30 index has changed its downward trend to finish the session at 13,621.23 points, adding 32.49 points, or 0.24%.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 index leveled up 0.45% to 692.82 points, whereas the broader EGX100 index went up 0.44% to 1,741 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index edged up 0.43% to 2,099 points.
Trading volume amounted to 175.49 million shares exchanged through 21,500 transactions at a turnover of EGP 703.25 million.
Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 103.26 million, while Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 43.5 million and EGP 59.7 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) rose by 1% to EGP 81, with a turnover of EGP 33.8 million.
Market capitalisation gained EGP 2.4 billion and closed the session at EGP 758.3 billion.
