Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Construction & Engineering, Power & Energy and Information Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.59%.
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. Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) added 24.93% or 561.00 points to end at 2811.00 and EB Creasy and Company PLC (CM:EBCR) was up 23.91% or 275.00 points to 1425.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Serendib Hotels PLC (CM:SHOT), which lost 13.27% or 5.20 points to trade at 34.00 in late trade. Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) declined 11.11% or 0.100 points to end at 0.900 and Metropolitan Resource Holdings PLC (CM:MPRH) shed 9.36% or 2.80 points to 27.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 124 to 93 and 19 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.80% or 0.81 to $44.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.32% or 1.16 to hit $48.89 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.17% or 1.90 to trade at $1132.10 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.85% to 208.360, while USD/LKR rose 0.61% to 135.170.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 96.02.