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Pound devaluation, IMF deal send Egypt’s stock market soaring

PRO: Egypt's stock market has started 2023 as one of the world’s best-performing exchanges. Here's what it will take to maintain that momentum.

Stock market brokers work at the Egyptian Stock Market in the capital Cairo on January 6, 2013. A top International Monetary Fund official will visit Egypt on January 7, for talks likely to focus on the $4.8 billion loan agreement frozen last month because of political unrest in the country. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
To:

Al-Monitor Pro Members

From:

Marc Español 

Freelance journalist covering Egypt and Sudan 


 

Date:

Jan. 30, 2023

Bottom Line:

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) has started 2023 as one of the world’s best-performing stock markets in local currency terms following a strong but volatile 2022. To expand further, it needs the country’s economy to start stabilizing and the government’s privatization program, which envisages the IPO of some SOEs, to get underway. 

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