Egypt’s stocks close in red on Tuesday as main index EGX 30 falls 0.18%

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) finished in red on Tuesday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index falling by 0.18 percent to 11,528 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) dropped by 0.38 percent to 2,148 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped went down by 0.11 percent to 13,751 points. In addition, the equal weights index, EGX 50 rose by 0.12 percent to 2,038 points.

The all-embracing index, EGX 100 decreased by 0.26 percent to 3,176 points.

Market Cap   

The country’s market capitalisation has incurred losses worth around 666 million Egyptian pounds ($42.3 million), ending the trading at 747.798 billion pounds due to foreign investors’ selloff.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 2.024 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 633.655 million securities executed 35,633 transactions.