Egypt’s stock exchange indexes end lower EGX 30 plunges 0.58% on Monday

Egypt’s stock exchange’s (EGX) indexes closed lower on Monday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index plunging 0.58 percent to 11,008 points driven by foreign investors’ selloff.

The EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) sank 2.59 percent to 1,962 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped fell 0.78 percent to 12,809 points. The all-embracing index, EGX 100 dived 2.26 percent to 2,855 points. Meanwhile, the equal weights index, EGX 50 inched down 1.50 percent to 2,064 points.

Market Cap

Total market capitalisation has incurred losses 4 billion Egyptian pounds ($254.3 million) to close at 620.811 billion pounds on Monday.

Trading Aggregates

Also on Monday, the trading value has approximately reached 3.2 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 383 million securities executed over 46,819 transactions.