Egypt’s stocks mostly lower on Wednesday, benchmark EGX 30 inch down 1.09%

By Amwal Al Ghad English On Mar 17, 2021

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) stocks — Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) (Photo Credit: AP - Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt’s stock exchange’s (EGX) indexes closed mostly lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index inching down 1.09 percent to 11,068 points due to local and Arab investors’ selloff.

The EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) rose 0.20 percent to 2,096 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped plummeted 1.01 percent to 13,500 points. The all-embracing index, EGX 100 dropped 0.11 percent to 3,080 points. Meanwhile, the equal weights index, EGX 50 went down 0.33 percent to 2,149 points.

Market Cap

Total market capitalisation has on Wednesday incurred losses worth 3.1 billion Egyptian pounds ($197.4 million), ending the trading at 673.790 billion pounds.

Trading Aggregates

Trading value has approximately reached 2.3 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 495.779 million securities executed 32,461 transactions.

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