Outside the foreign ministry, dozens of protesters burned pictures of Kerry as they chanted against US support for Mursi.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met Egypt President Mohammad Mursi on Sunday as he wraps up a trip to Cairo.
His meeting with Mursi comes after the US secretary of state met army chief Abdel Fatah al-S
isi.
Outside the foreign ministry, dozens of protesters burned pictures of Kerry as they chanted against perceived US support for Mursi.
Kerry also spoke with Mohamed ElBaradei by telephone. ElBaradei and opposition figure Hamdeen Sabahi had refused to meet him in person. All three are leading figures in the National Salvation Front, a coalition of liberal and leftist parties opposed to Mursi, which has announced a boycott of elections that begin next month.
Kerry flew in to Cairo from Turkey on Saturday and urged a wide range of political and business leaders to reach a consensus, after months of political turmoil and unrest.
"There must be a willingness on all sides to make meaningful compromises on the issues that matter most to the Egyptian people," Kerry told reporters after talks on Saturday with Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr.
"We do believe that in this moment of economic challenge that it is important for the Egyptian people to come together around the economic choices and to find some common ground in making those choices," he said.
Kerry's visit comes with Egypt deeply divided between Mursi's mainly Islamist allies and a wide-ranging opposition that accuses Mursi of failing to address the country's economic needs and political concerns.
Kerry said he would discuss with Mursi on Sunday ways in which the United States could help Egypt recover from its economic crisis. "And I emphasise again, as strongly as I can, we're not here to interfere, I'm here to listen," Kerry said.
A State Department official travelling with Kerry told reporters that the secretary of state would also discuss “anti-Semitic” remarks Mursi made before he was president and has since backtracked from.
But "the primary goal here is to encourage his - to encourage his work that he did with Israelis in getting the Gaza ceasefire," he said, of an Egyptian-mediated truce that ended eight days of fighting in November between the Zionist entity and Hamas.
Meeting some of Egypt's business leaders, Kerry stressed the importance of a $4.8-billion IMF loan, which is partly conditioned on a measure of agreement between the nation's divided factions.
"It is paramount, essential, urgent that the Egyptian economy gets stronger, that it gets back on its feet," he said. "It is clear to us that the IMF arrangement needs to be reached. So we need to give the marketplace the confidence."
On his first tour as secretary of state, Kerry met British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before coming to Cairo.
