CAIRO – Egyptian Minister of Finance Hazem al-Beblawy today opened the stock market session with the help of the new Chairman Mohamed Omran. The government will maintain the Bourse's stability and the government seeks to support a free economy, al-Beblawy announced at today's press conference. Egyptian investors took 67.64 percent of today's transactions, foreign investors captured 25.81 percent and Arab investors collected a mere 6.55 percent. Foreign transactions totaled 91.07 million EGP (U.S. $15.26 million) and total Arab transactions equaled 2.48 million EGP (U.S. $415,000) this week. Total year-to-date foreign transactions equaled 3.51 billion EGP (U.S. $588.37 million) and total year-to-date Arab transactions equaled 19.54 million EGP (U.S. $ 3.28 million). Institutional trading comprised 45.47 percent of transactions and individual trading comprised 54.53 percent in the stock market. Total institutional transactions equaled 108.69 million EGP (U.S. $18.22) this week. Arabic here
