CAIRO: Foreign investor and institutional sell-offs today dragged down the three main Egyptian stock indexes in the morning session. Spooked investors concerned with the siege on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last Friday began abandoning the market as soon as trading opened. The main EGX 30 index fell 1.3 percent, the EGX 70 shed 1.1 percent and the EGX 100 dropped 1.2 percent. Blue-chip stocks also suffered losses this morning, including Hermis Index, down 2.02 percent; Orascom Telecom, down 0.56 percent; Commercial International Bank, down 1.1 percent; Public Giza Company, down 2.9 percent; Palm Hills, down 1.6 percent; Talaat Mostafa, down 2.6 percent; Ezz Steel, down 2.6 percent; and Telecom Egypt, down 1.4 percent.