Egypt’s stocks end week in red as main index EGX 30 falls 0.62%

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) has closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index falling by 0.62 percent to 11,613 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) inched down by 2.67 percent to 2,165 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped dropped by 0.49 percent to 13,619 points. In addition, the equal weights index, EGX 50 decreased by 1.44 percent to 2,038 points.

The all-embracing index, EGX 100 slid by 1.98 percent to 3,146 points.

Market Cap   

The country’s market capitalisation has incurred losses on Thursday worth 7.8 billion Egyptian pounds ($485.2 million), ending the trading at 735.211 billion pounds driven by Arab and foreign investors’ selloff.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 1.5 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 292.947 million securities executed 33,898 transactions.

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