Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Monday’s trading session down, pressured by local selling.
The benchmark EGX30 index shed 0.83% or 127.09 points to 15,127.76.
Trading volume stood at about 286.3 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 1.5 billion through 27,580 transactions.
Market capitalism closed at EGP 848.56 billion and lost EGP 3.2 billion.
The EGX70 index tumbled 0.7% to 837.94 points, while the EGX100 index fell to 1,994 points.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index slipped 0.71% to 2,673 points.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 603.5 million, while foreign and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 509.5 million and EGP 93.9 million respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) dropped 1.75% to EGP 77.6 at a turnover of EGP 103.06 million.
