The Egyptian Exchange began this week's trading on Sunday by making more than seven billion pounds in gains prompted by purchases of investors and recovery of global money markets and oil prices.

The market capital hit 387.65 billion pounds against 380.5 billion pounds.

The EGX 30 benchmark index rose by 3.76 percent to reach 5928.25 points.

The broader EGX 70 index of the leading smaller and mid cap enterprises (SME) went up by 2.2 percent to reach 351.41 points.

The all-embracing EGX 100 index also increased by 1.81 percent to 704.59 points.