Egypt is to postpone the offering of a 4.5 percent stake in state-owned Eastern Tobacco company EAST.CA due to global market volatility, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Friday. The ministry said that a cabinet committee responsible for managing IPOs had also made the decision because of the trade war between America and China and headwinds in emerging markets. In May, Egypt's state-owned Holding Company for Chemical Industries said it had agreed to sell part of its stake in Eastern Tobacco on the Cairo exchange.