Pre-Trading Thoughts

*Key news articles for today* Mostafa Madbouly penciled in the third week of July as when the country will be ready to “stop cutting electricity completely throughout the summer period.” However, Madbouly clarified that the current “one hour” extension will continue as planned until the end of the week and that power cuts will resume after the summer months until the end of year. The surprise week-long extension of additional outages this week came as a result of a gas field in a “neighboring...