All Egyptian Exchange indices showed a downward trend on Monday promoted by random sell-outs by Egyptian investors following news that the motorcade of top prosecutor Hisharm Barakat was hit by a bomb blast in Cairo's Heliopolis district.

The capital market lost 4 billion pounds to reach 486 million pounds.

The benchmark index EGX 30 dropped 1.5 percent to 8390.24 points.

The broader EGX 70 index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) declined 1.25 percent to 444.09 points.

The all-embracing EGX 100 index was down 1.05 percent taking the index to 942.18 points.