Egypt’s bourse opens Sunday on mixed note

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) opened Sunday’s trading session on a mixed note amid local and Arab selling and foreign buying.

By 10:30 am Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index shed 92.6 points, or 0.58 percent, to 15,916.81 points.

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 index remained stable at 747.37 points, while the broader EGX100 index inched up 0.04 percent to 1,937 points.

The equal-weighted EGX50 index dipped 0.3 percent to 2,595 points.

Trading volume amounted to nearly 29.6 million shares exchanged at 148.12 million pounds through 3,070 transactions.