Egypt’s stocks end lower on Tuesday, benchmark EGX 30 dives 1.47%

Egypt’s stock exchange’s (EGX) indexes finished trading lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index diving 1.47 percent to 10,123 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) tumbled 1.34 percent to 2,285 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped decreased 1.37 percent to 12,698 points. The all-embracing index, EGX 100 plummeted 1.41 percent to 3,232 points. Meanwhile, the equal weights index, EGX 50 sank 2.08 percent to 2,127 points.

Market Cap   

However, the country’s market capitalisation has on Tuesday posted gains worth around 8.4 billion Egyptian pounds ($536.2 million), ending the trading at 660.661 billion pounds powered by local and Arab investors’ buying appetite.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 2.2 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 424.225 million securities executed 44,259 transactions.