Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Plantations and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Industrial Asphalts (Ceylon) PLC (CM:ASPH), which rose 23.64% or 71.90 points to trade at 376.00 at the close. Singer Industries PLC (CM:SINI) added 18.21% or 26.50 points to end at 172.00 and Pegasus Hotels of Ceylon PLC (CM:PEG) was up 16.72% or 5.30 points to 37.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Serendib Engineering Group PLC (CM:IDL), which lost 14.29% or 1.10 points to trade at 6.60 in late trade. Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) declined 8.33% or 0.100 points to end at 1.100 and John Keells PLC (CM:JKL) shed 8.17% or 4.90 points to 55.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 95 to 54 and 54 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.11% or 0.59 to $52.39 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.01% or 0.56 to hit $55.16 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.36% or 4.15 to trade at $1163.15 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.27% to 188.290, while USD/LKR fell 0.17% to 148.580.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 100.99.