Egypt’s stocks end week in green as benchmark EWX 30 surges 0.69%

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) has ended higher on Thursday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index increasing by 0.69 percent to 11,431 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) climbed by 2.51 percent to 2,083 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped inched up by 1.25 percent to 13,526 points. In addition, the equal weights index, EGX 50 grew by 2.01 percent to 1,974 points.

The all-embracing index, EGX 100 rose by 2.28 percent to 3,059 points.

Market Cap   

The country’s market capitalisation has incurred losses worth 6.7 billion Egyptian pounds ($483.7 million), ending the trading at 721.703 billion pounds buoyed by Arab investors’ buying appetite.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 1.4 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 443.192 million securities executed 45,935 transactions.