Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Wednesday’s trading session mixed amid foreign and Arab buying, against local selling.
The benchmark EGX30 index inched up 16.94 points, or 0.10% to 17,509 points.
Market capitalisation lost EGP 3.2 billion and closed at EGP 975billion.
The small- and medium-caps EGX70 index slid 0.75% to 868.23 points, while the broader EGX100 index levelled up 0.23% to 2,251 points.
Trading volume amounted to nearly 779.2 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 2.6 billion through 47,800 transactions.
The equal-weighted EGX50 index tumbled 0.66% to 2,994.32 points.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 225.1 million, while foreign and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 128.5 million and EGP 126.6 million, respectively.
The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) fell 1.07% to EGP 86.6, with a turnover of EGP 85.3 million.
