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USD CBE auction (Thursday, 20 Oct): 8.78 (unchanged since 16 March 2016)
USD parallel market (Thursday, 20 Oct): 15.40 (from 15.50 on Wednesday morning, 19 Oct, Al Borsa)

EGX30 (Thursday): 8277.21 (+1.43%)
Turnover: EGP 664.08 mn (53% above the 90-day average)
EGX 30 year-to-date: +18.14%

THE MARKET ON THURSDAY: EGX30 closed 1.4% up, with heavyweight constituents supporting the index. Today’s top performers were Porto Group, Heliopolis Housing, and Orascom Construction. On the flip side, today’s worst performers were Qalaa Holdings, Elsewedy Electric, and Domty. At a market turnover of EGP 664.1 mn, foreign investors were the sole net sellers.

Foreigners: Net short | EGP – 67.2 mn
Regional: Net long | EGP + 41.2 mn
Domestic: Net long | EGP + 26.0 mn

Retail: 56.3% of total trades | 54.6% of buyers | 58.0% of sellers
Institutions: 43.7% of total trades | 45.4% of buyers | 42.0% of sellers

Foreign: 24.2% of total | 19.2% of buyers | 29.3% of sellers
Regional: 7.3% of total | 10.4% of buyers | 4.2% of sellers
Domestic: 68.5% of total | 70.4% of buyers | 66.5% of sellers

WTI: USD 50.85 (+0.43%)
Brent: USD 51.78 (+0.78%)
Natural Gas (Nymex, futures prices) USD 2.96 MMBtu, (-1.07%, November 2016 contract)
Gold: USD 1,267.70 / troy ounce (+0.02%)

TASI: 5,651.8 (+2.3%) (YTD: -18.2%)
ADX: 4,294.5 (-0.3%) (YTD: -0.3%)
DFM: 3,340.5 (+0.6%) (YTD: +6.0%)
KSE Weighted Index: 346.1 (+0.4%) (YTD: -9.3%)
QE: 10,438.5 (-0.1%) (YTD: +0.1%)
MSM: 5,562.3 (-0.5%) (YTD: +2.9%)
BB: 1,151.8 (+0.6%) (YTD: -5.3%)