EGX starts week in green on 19 Oct.

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By Aya Anwar

Egypt’s stock market (EGX) closed in the green zone on Sunday.

  • The benchmark index, EGX30 went up 0.62 per cent to 37,909.61 points.
  • The Shariah index, EGX33 surged 1.29 per cent to 3,834.11 points.
  • The index EGX35-LV advanced 1.57 per cent to 4,267.71 points.
  • The SMEs index, EGX70 rose 1.82 per cent to 11,866.52 points.
  • The EGX100 index scaled up by 1.55 per cent to 15,601.93 points.

The total market capitalisation reached 2,718,236,547,175 Egyptian pounds.

Arabs and non-Arab foreigners were net buyers with 84,687,050 pounds and 12,878,772 pounds, respectively. Meanwhile, Egyptians net sellers with total of 97,565,822 pounds.

Top gainers

  1. Shares of Medical Packaging Company jumped 20.00 per cent to 1.680 pounds a share.
  2. Shares of Cleopatra Hospital Company climbed 9.91 per cent to 12.870 pounds a share.
  3. Shares of Copper for Commercial Investment and Real Estate Development soared 8.91 per cent to 1.100 pounds a share.

Top losers

  1. Shares of Sinai Cement dived 3.40 per cent to 66.170 pounds a share.
  2. Shares of Upper Egypt Flour Mills sank 3.18 per cent to 530.080 pounds a share.
  3. Shares of U Consumer Finance lost 2.27 per cent to 7.750 pounds a share.

Subediting: Y.Yasser

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