CAIRO: A day after the Egyptian President's speech where he declared he will not nominate himself for a sixth presidential term, the Egyptian Central bank tried to reassure investors that the country's banks will have enough funds to deal with a possible run when they reopen on Sunday after a week-long closure caused by anti-government protests. Bankers have warned that investors and Egyptians, who are worried by protests that have closed down much of the economic bodies since they broke out on Jan. 25, will seek to send funds abroad or convert them into cash. “We are expecting that transfers out of the country and dollarization will be unprecedented,” Reuters quoted a treasury dealer as saying at a medium sized bank in Cairo. “Bank runs are the major concern — whether the banks will have enough cash in their branches to pay depositors. You should expect long queues,” he said. Bankers have said that the central bank's war chest of $36 billion in foreign reserves could be seriously depleted within weeks if the political situation did not stabilize quickly. The stock exchange, which has also been closed, will begin trading one day after the banks reopen provided activity at the banks goes smoothly; its chairman was quoted by the official news agency MENA as saying. “The return of activity on the exchange on Monday is also conditional on the stability of activity at banks when they return,” Khaled Serry Seyam told the official MENA news agency on Wednesday. The central bank's deputy chairman said the banks would have enough funds to deal with the situation. Banks and the stock exchange were closed for a fourth straight day on Wednesday and would remain closed on Thursday, officials said.