Egypt’s stocks start week lower, benchmark EGX 30 tumbles 1.40%

By Amwal Al Ghad English On Apr 4, 2021

Egypt’s stock exchange’s (EGX) indexes closed lower on Sunday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index tumbling 1.40 percent to 10,417 points.

The EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) fell 1.02 percent to 1,993 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped lost 1.36 percent to 12,756 points. The all-embracing index, EGX 100 edged down 1.19 percent to 2,928 points. Meanwhile, the equal weights index, EGX 50 plummeted 1.50 percent to 2,032 points.

Market Cap

Total market capitalisation has on Sunday incurred losses worth 6.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($413.1 million), ending the trading at 646.021 billion pounds due to local and Arab investors’ selloff.

Trading Aggregates

Trading value has approximately reached around 2 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 486.156 million securities executed 36,238 transactions.

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