Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Plantations, Trading and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH), which rose 100.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.2000 at the close. Selinsing PLC (CM:SELI) added 23.42% or 204.90 points to end at 1079.90 and Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) was up 18.73% or 323.40 points to 2050.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Union Chemicals Lanka PLC (CM:UCHE), which lost 14.00% or 70.00 points to trade at 430.00 in late trade. Arpico Finance Company PLC (CM:ARPI) declined 8.76% or 14.90 points to end at 155.10 and CIC Holdings PLC (CM:CIC) shed 6.74% or 4.70 points to 65.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 108 to 69 and 51 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.50% or 0.23 to $46.19 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.51% or 0.26 to hit $50.99 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.15% or 1.96 to trade at $1312.14 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.49% to 196.715, while USD/LKR fell 0.03% to 152.790.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 93.11.