CAIRO: Small and medium Egyptian enterprises' shares went up Wednesday mainly due to Egyptian and Arab shareholders' efforts. There was an increase in big shares but the four leading shares, Orascom Construction, International Commercial Bank, Orascom Telecom and Telecom Egypt declined causing the main index to decline at close point. The main index, EGX30 declined by 0.14 percent while EGX20, EGX70 and EGX100 went up 0.22 percent, 1.04 percent and 0.74 percent, respectively. Foreign shareholders contributed with 30.13 percent of total dealings achieving 140.5 million EGP net profits. Arab shareholders had 10.14 percent gaining 83.5 million EGP. Whereas Egyptian shareholders recorded 57.001 million EGP net profits accounting for 59.73 percent.
