Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Trading, Information Technology and Diversified Holdings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING), which rose 17.33% or 13.00 points to trade at 88.00 at the close. Equity Two PLC (CM:ETWO) added 13.06% or 6.70 points to end at 58.00 and Sunshine Holdings PLC (CM:SUN) was up 7.82% or 3.90 points to 53.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which lost 19.23% or 500.10 points to trade at 2100.00 in late trade. Nuwara Eliya Hotels Co PLC (CM:NEH) declined 8.97% or 123.40 points to end at 1251.90 and F L C Holdings PLC (CM:FREE) shed 8.33% or 0.10 points to 1.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 107 to 53 and 46 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 3.80% or 0.99 to $27.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 3.91% or 1.18 to hit $31.23 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.51% or 6.40 to trade at $1241.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.64% to 208.900, while USD/LKR rose 0.24% to 144.410.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.14% at 95.77.