The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes showed mixed performance at the close of Monday's trading amid sales by institutions and Egyptian and foreign investment funds and purchase operations from Egyptian investors.

The market capital gained about 3.2 billion pounds to reach 598.3 billion pounds, after transactions hit 999.4 million pounds.

The main benchmark EGX 30 index went down by 0.44 percent, reaching 12,290.61 points.

The EGX 70 index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SMEs) rose by about 0.3 percent reaching 464.81 points. 

The overall EGX 100 index was up by 0.13 percent reaching 1,099.36 points.