The EGX has completed technical tests of a platform which would allow short-selling on the bourse, EGX Chairman Mohamed Farid said, according to Al Masry Al Youm. The move is part of several new financial tools and instruments the exchange plans to launch in the near future. Farid also briefly spoke of plans to introduce a platform futures trading on the bourse in an interview on Bloomberg TV (watch, runtime 1:47).

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