Egypt’s stocks open trading with slight rise on Wednesday

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) started trading on Wednesday with a slight increase, and the main market index EGX 30 rose by 0.33 percent to 1,0171 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of small and medium enterprises (SME) increased 0.13 percent to reach 2,191 points, and the all-embracing index EGX100 increased by 0.15 percent to 3,135 points.

Market Cap

The country’s market capitalization has recorded 685.99 billion Egyptian pounds ($35,8 billion).

This among the tendency of Arab and foreign investors to sell with a net value of 1.6 million pounds.

Trading Aggregates

Trading value has approximately 140.3 million pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded around 64.4 million securities executed 5.2 thousand transactions.