Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Construction & Engineering, Healthcare and Palm Oil sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE), which rose 28.57% or 0.200 points to trade at 0.900 at the close. Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 16.67% or 0.100 points to end at 0.700 and Serendib Engineering Group PLC (CM:IDL) was up 16.36% or 0.90 points to 6.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lanka Cement PLC (CM:LCEM), which lost 6.98% or 0.30 points to trade at 4.00 in late trade. Alufab PLC (CM:ALUF) declined 6.57% or 1.90 points to end at 27.00 and Lighthouse Hotel PLC (CM:LHL) shed 6.41% or 3.30 points to 48.20.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 85 to 70 and 47 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.32% or 0.65 to $48.66 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.14% or 0.59 to hit $51.17 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.23% or 2.80 to trade at $1233.00 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.34% to 188.050, while USD/LKR fell 0.51% to 151.550.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 100.05.