EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 17.86 | Sell 17.95

EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 17.89 | Sell 17.96

EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.78 | Sell 17.88

EGX30 (Monday): 13,215 (+1.7%)

Turnover: EGP 894 mn (11% above the 90-day average)

EGX 30 year-to-date: -12.0%

THE MARKET ON MONDAY: The EGX30 ended Monday’s session up 1.7%. CIB, the index heaviest constituent ended up 3.0%. EGX30’s top performing constituents were Arab Cotton Ginning up 3.8%, and Ezz Steel up 3.3%, and CIB up 3.0%. Yesterday’s worst performing stocks were Emaar Misr down 1.2% and Global Telecom down 0.8%. The market turnover was EGP 894 mn, and regional investors were the sole net sellers.

Foreigners: Net Long | EGP +12.5 mn

Regional: Net Short | EGP -28.3 mn

Domestic: Net Long | EGP +15.8 mn

Retail: 67.5% of total trades | 64.6% of buyers | 70.3% of sellers

Institutions: 32.5% of total trades | 35.4% of buyers | 29.7% of sellers

WTI: USD 49.34 (-1.08%)

Brent: USD 59.61 (-1.11%)

Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 3.60 MMBtu, (+1.96%, January 2019 contract)

Gold: USD 1,249.90 / troy ounce (-0.15%)

TASI: 7,968.26 (+0.76%) (YTD: +10.27%)

ADX: 4,865.82 (+0.72%) (YTD: +10.63%)

DFM: 2,563.72 (+0.28%) (YTD: -23.93%)

KSE Premier Market: 5,402.14 (-0.09%)

QE: 10,489.04 (-0.07%) (YTD: +23.06%)

MSM: 4,408.20 (-0.20%) (YTD: -13.55%)

BB: 1,319.32 (-0.07%) (YTD: -0.93%)