EGX ends in red, benchmark down 0.7%

CAIRO – 30 April 2017: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes were all down at the close of Sunday's trading amid sales by Egyptian and foreign investors.

Meanwhile, purchase operations prevailed in transactions of Arab investors as well as Egyptian, Arab and foreign institutions.

The benchmark EGX30 index declined 0.74 percent, closing at 12,433 points.

The small and mid-cap enterprises index (EGX70) decreased 0.6 percent, standing at 583 points.

Also, the all-embracing EGX100 was down 0.85 percent, registering 1,340 points.

Market capitalization lost about 6.4 billion EGP ($354.5 million) totaling 648.71 billion EGP. The market turnover registered 521 million EGP.