CAIRO: Egypt's Stock market indexes ended this week's transactions with a collective decline due to continual sales by foreign investors, joined by Arab investors at the end of the session. Egyptian investors' purchases could not manage to change the track of the indexes. The main stock index EGX30 recorded a 1.1 percent decline to close at 4,124 points, while index EGX20 declined by 1 percent. Medium and small companies index EGX70 declined by 0.37 percent, whereas the broadest index EGX100 declined by 0.50 percent. Transactions were valued at 277.2 million EGP. Egyptian investors made up 44.54 percent of the total transactions, with net purchase valued at 27.3 million EGP, whereas foreign investors acquired 46.31 percent of the trades with net sales valued at 25.6 million EGP. Arab investors made up 9.15 percent of the transactions with nest sales valued at 1.6 million EGP. Some of the main shares witnessed a decline such as, commercial international bank declined by 2.7 percent, Palm hills declined by 1.03 percent , Orascom telecom declined by 1.2 percent and Ezz steel declined by 1.2 percent.
