CAIRO: Egyptian banks have begun new plans to attract more cash to aid liquidity after their deposits declined drastically.
Banks witnessed dramatic declines in their deposits due to expansions in purchasing bills and government treasury bonds, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian investors boosted the small- and medium-sized company shares in the mid-session of today's transactions in the Egyptian stock exchange.
Bigger shares however, due to foreign and Arab sell-offs, continued to fall.
The main EGX30 (...)
The Egyptian stock market administration today suspended 22 trading on 22 companies for 30 minutes during the first hour of transactions.
The transactions exceeded the 5 percent limit today.
The 22 companies are:
• National Cairo for (...)
Egyptian stock market indexes started the morning transactions with a slight rise, pushed by Arab and foreign investors' purchases while Egyptian investors' transactions directed to sales.
The main Egyptian stock market index EGX30 rose by 0.49 (...)
The Egyptian stock market ended the week's transactions down Thursday, driven by the sales of Arab and foreign investors responding to news of an explosion on the gas pipeline to Israel and security concerns in the governorates of Kafr el-Sheikh, (...)
Egypt's stock market ended its first transactions after the Eid al-Adha holiday in a collective decline Wednesday, pushed by Arab and Foreign investors' sales.
Although Egyptian investors leaned towards purchases in the second half of Wednesday's (...)
Main Egyptian stock market index EGX30 was able to reach 4361 points during last week's sessions. The index's good performance is expected to continue throughout the rest of the week. Technical analyst Sameh Ghareeb said the size of transactions (...)
CAIRO: The number of active investors in the Egyptian bourse declined to just over 100,000 in 2011, a fall from 311,000 investors during 2005.
The decline in participants in 2011 illustrates the deterioration of the Egyptian stock indexes. Many (...)
Egypt's stock market indexes declined during this morning's transactions, except for small and medium company index, which maintained its limited increase.
Foreign investor transactions were directed to selling while Egyptian and Arab transactions (...)
Anxiety related to clashes at Maspiro were reflected by losses at the Egyptian Stock market during Monday's trading, with all indexes falling at the opening of trade.
Losses were valued at more than 10 billion EGP (U.S. $1.7 billion). The market (...)
All indices on the Egyptian stock market fell on the first day of new chairman Mohamed Omran's term, driven by an Arab and Egyptian sell-off.
Egypt's principal index, the EGX 30, closed down 2.2 percent. The small and medium companies index, the (...)
Egypt's three main stock indices declined during morning trading Wednesday, pushed by most large companies, including Orascom Construction, Mobinil, Commercial International Bank, and Orascom Telecom.
The main Egyptian stock index, the EGX 30, (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian stock market closed today with a collective decline, pushed by sales by Arab and Egyptian investors and institutions. Foreign transactions leaned toward purchasing as many of the leading shares declined today.
The main (...)
A convinction for Ezz Steel's former chairman has nothing to do with current production, the company said Sunday.
Ahmed Ezz was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined 660 million EGP (U.S. $110 million) on criminal corruption charges.
The (...)
Egypt's three main stock market indexes collectively declined during today's morning transactions.
The stock market capital lost more than 15 billion EGP (U.S. $2.51 billion). The decline continued by proceeding intensive sales processes by Arab (...)
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 (...)
Egyptian investors made up 74.5 percent of transactions on the Egyptian Stock market this week. Non-Arab foreigners made up 19.21 percent of transactions, and Arabs made 6.29 percent of trades.
Foreigners' transactions resulted in a net sale of (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's three stock market indexes rose collectively during morning transactions today, pushed by purchases of the Egyptian and Arab investors. Foreign investors continued their sell-offs.
The main Egyptian stock market index, EGX 30, rose (...)
Arab and foreign investors' purchases pushed Egypt's three main stock indices towards modest gains in the opening hours of trading Thursday, tempered by Egyptian transactions mostly consisting of sales.
The principal stock index, EGX 30, rose (...)
The Egyptian stock market indexes rose again today during the mid-session transactions particularly after foreign investors began purchasing large chunks of the market. Arab and Egyptian investors continued their sell-offs, though.
The main (...)
The Egyptian stock market's large company index rose on the week, while two other major indices declined.
The main Egyptian stock index, EGX 30, rose 3.37 percent on the week, closing at 4,747 points. The medium and small companies' index, EGX (...)
The Egyptian stock market regained the 4.8 billion EGP (U.S. $806.3 million) it lost yesterday in the latter stages of today's session, the last caucus of the first week of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The Egyptian stock market rose with a (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's three stock market indexes rose notably in morning transactions today, the last day of the trading week. The stock market reached its lowest levels in yesterday's transactions, but was pushed up today with increased foreign purchases (...)
The stock market indexes started today's transactions, the first session in the holy month of Ramadan, with a rise. They were caused by some of the leading shares, particularly Orascom Telecom, Orascom for construction, Commercial International (...)
The Egyptian stock market index gained 1.7 billion EGP (U.S. $285.6 million) today on the first day of Ramadan. The gains can be traced largely to foreign purchasing in the second half of the session, as Arab and Egyptian transactions declined in (...)