Egypt’s stocks start week in red as benchmark EGX 30 falls 0.87%

Egypt’s stock exchange (EGX) ended lower on Sunday, with the benchmark EGX 30 index slightly falling by 0.87 percent to 11,566 points.

EGX 70 EWI index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) inched down by 0.20 percent to 2,127 points, while the fixed-weighted index, EGX 30 Capped dropped by 0.94 percent to 13,818 points. In addition, the equal weights index, EGX 50 added 0.01 percent to 2,017 points.

The all-embracing index, EGX 100 advanced 0.18 percent to 3,129 points.

Market Cap   

The country’s market capitalisation has incurred losses worth 4.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($287.3 million), ending the trading at 733.766 billion pounds driven by Arab and foreign investors’ selloff.

Trading Aggregates            

Trading value has approximately reached around 1.8 billion pounds, while the trading volume has almost recorded 247.679 million securities executed 30,808 transactions.