Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Services, Information Technology and Trading sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which rose 72.50% or 777.10 points to trade at 1849.00 at the close. Millennium Housing Developers PLC (CM:MHDL) added 19.05% or 1.60 points to end at 8.40 and Metropolitan Resource Holdings PLC (CM:MPRH) was up 13.97% or 3.80 points to 31.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CT Land Development PLC (CM:CTLD), which lost 7.69% or 4.00 points to trade at 48.00 in late trade. F L C Holdings PLC (CM:FREE) declined 7.14% or 0.10 points to end at 1.40 and Commercial Leasing & Finance PLC (CM:COLE) shed 6.98% or 0.30 points to 4.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 108 to 94 and 23 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.33% or 1.07 to $44.85 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.20% or 1.07 to hit $47.81 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.31% or 3.40 to trade at $1105.90 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.86% to 212.940, while USD/LKR fell 0.84% to 137.915.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 95.61.