Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) has seen an upward trend early Thursday on the back of foreign and Egyptian buying.

By 10:25 Cairo time, the benchmark EGX30 index gained 117 points, or 0.79%, to 15,066 points.

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 index inched up 0.05% to 713.6 points, while the broader EGX100 index added 0.15% to 1,802.9 points.

The equal-weighted EGX50 index leveled up 0.71% to 2,420.7 points.

Trading volume amounted to 23 million shares exchanged at a turnover of EGP 95 million through 3,300 transactions.

Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 4.5 million, while Egyptian and foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 3.4 million and EGP 1.1 million, respectively.

The heavyweight Commercial International Bank (CIB) jumped 1.4% to EGP 73.8.