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The Egyptian stock market wrapped up Monday's session with sharp losses across all main and secondary benchmarks. In response to heightened volatility, the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) management triggered a 10-minute trading halt on 21 equities after they breached the 5% threshold, whether upward or downward

Stocks Subject to Temporary Suspensions

The list of affected shares temporarily halted by the market authority included:

Golden Tex Wool

Hepco for Commercial Investments and Real Estate Development

Ismaelia National Food Industries (Foodico)

e-finance for Digital and Financial Investments

Gourmet Egypt.com for Food

Rekaz Holding for Financial Investments

Cairo National for Investment and Securities

Valmore Holding for Investment in EGP

Alexandria Medical Services - New Medical Center

Al Fanar Contracting, General Construction, Trade & Import

Egyptian Arabian (Themar) Securities Brokerage

Al Naeem Real Estate Holding Group

Misr National Steel (Ataqa)

Integrated Engineering Group

National Company for Printing

Alexandria Pharmaceuticals and Chemical Industries

Arab Company for Metal Industries and Industrial Investments

Orascom Investment Holding

Middle Egypt Mills

International Company for Agricultural Crops

Middle and West Delta Mills

Performance of Main Indices

The benchmark EGX30 index tumbled 2.72% to end at 51,591 points, while the EGX30 Capped Index dropped 2.68% to 64,206 points. Similarly, the EGX30 Total Return Index retreated by 2.03% to close at 24,236 points. The EGX35-LV index recorded the steepest decline among the broader category, falling 3.76% to 6,165 points.

Small and Medium Cap, Sharia, and Tamayuz Indices

Losses swept through secondary indicators as well: the small and medium enterprise index, EGX70 EWI, shed 3.75% to hit 18,352 points, while the broader EGX100 EWI slipped 3.43% to 24,450 points. Furthermore, the EGX Shariah index gave up 2.71% to settle at 6,224 points, and the Tamayuz index dropped 3.97% to finish at 41,149 points.