Egypt’s stocks end week in red as benchmark EGX 30 slides 0.91%

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) has finished on Thursday in red, with the benchmark EGX 30 index falling 0.91 percent to 10,809 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) declined by 0.83 percent to 2,908 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped fell 0.91 percent to 13,099 points. The all-embracing index, EGX 100 went down 0.84 percent to 3,870 points. In addition, the equal weights index, EGX 50 decreased 0.72 percent to 2,403 points.

Market Cap   

The country’s market capitalisation has incurred on Thursday losses worth 5.3 billion Egyptian pounds ($337.6 million), ending the trading at 715.207 billion pounds due to Arab and foreign investors’ selloff.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 5.3 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded around 446.161 million securities executed 57,581 transactions.