Market Update: Egypt stocks drop on Sinai blast

Ahram Online, Thursday 10 Nov 2011

EGX30 sheds 0.82 per cent and daily turnover plummets following seventh attack on gas pipeline this year

 

Egypt stocks fell in midday trading on Thursday after the market was shaken by the bombing of a gas pipeline that carries Egyptian LNG to Israel and Jordan.

The incident, carried out by unknown perpetrators, was the seventh such attack on the pipeline – which runs across Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula – this year.

As a result of the blast, Egypt’s main EGX30 stock index dipped 0.82 per cent to trade at 4,381 points, while daily turnover stood at a below-average level of LE74 million ($12.3 million).

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