Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, has bought 120,000 tonnes of Russian and Romanian wheat for the November 1-10 shipment on a free on board basis, the main government wheat buyer said on Thursday.

Nomani Nomani, vice chairman of the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), gave the following breakdown of the  purchases:  60,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat from Toepfer at $288.98 per tonne and 60,000 tonnes of Russian wheat from Nidera at $294.69 per tonne.-Reuters