Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) suspended trading for 30 minutes on Sunday, October 25, after its broader EGX 100 EWI index dropped 10%, as per a disclosure.
By 1:37 PM, the benchmark EGX 30 index had fallen approximately 5.35% to 48,321.27 points. The EGX 70 EWI index, which tracks small and mid-cap stocks, recorded a steeper decline of 11.51% to 15,205.61 points, while the EGX 100 EWI stood at 20,805.44 points.
Trading volume reached 1.569 billion shares, with turnover totaling EGP 4.964 billion across 203,798 transactions.
Losses extended across most traded stocks. Of the 224 securities traded during the session, 213 declined, three advanced, and eight remained unchanged.
