The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes showed varied performance at the close of trading on Tuesday amid profit-taking operations by institutions and Egyptian and Arab investment funds and selling operations by individual foreign investors. 

The market capital lost about 2.2 billion pounds to hit 522.1 billion pounds amid transactions which hit about 1.7 billion pounds.

The main benchmark EGX 30 index went back by 0.5 percent to hit 10,640.57 points.

The broader EGX 70 index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) increased by 1.02 percent to 419.58 points.

The all-embracing EGX 100 index declined by 0.02 percent to reach 989.59 points.