Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Footwear & Textile and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.81% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Tea Smallholder Factories PLC (CM:TSML), which rose 10.32% or 2.60 points to trade at 27.80 at the close. Mackwoods Energy PLC (CM:MWEL) added 10.00% or 0.300 points to end at 3.300 and Lucky Lanka Milk Processing Company Ltd (CM:LLMP) was up 8.33% or 0.300 points to 3.900 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL), which lost 20.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.400 in late trade. Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) declined 12.90% or 0.130 points to end at 0.900 and Bukit Darah PLC (CM:BUKI) shed 9.97% or 34.90 points to 315.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 132 to 38 and 40 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.59% or 0.28 to $47.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.55% or 0.27 to hit $48.77 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.76% or 10.05 to trade at $1332.45 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 2.13% to 197.265, while USD/LKR fell 0.14% to 147.120.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.88% at 96.47.