Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power & Energy and Land & Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH) added 20.00% or 0.10 points to end at 0.50 and Sigiriya Village Hotels PLC (CM:SIGV) was up 15.65% or 10.80 points to 79.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which lost 14.12% or 328.70 points to trade at 2000.00 in late trade. Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) declined 12.21% or 119.10 points to end at 856.00 and SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) shed 11.11% or 0.10 points to 0.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 125 to 83 and 16 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.15% or 0.06 to $36.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.63% or 0.23 to hit $36.98 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.21% or 2.30 to trade at $1077.50 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.47% to 213.530, while USD/LKR rose 0.81% to 145.060.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.34% at 99.28.