Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Services, Beverages & Tobacco and Trading sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Colombo Investment Trust PLC (CM:CIT), which rose 24.97% or 18.00 points to trade at 90.10 at the close. Kelsey Developments PLC (CM:KDL) added 24.93% or 9.00 points to end at 45.10 and Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) was up 18.03% or 12.80 points to 83.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Good Hope PLC (CM:GOOD), which lost 22.58% or 350.00 points to trade at 1200.00 in late trade. People’s Merchant Finance PLC (CM:PMB) declined 13.99% or 2.00 points to end at 12.30 and Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) shed 12.50% or 0.100 points to 0.700.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 101 to 65 and 56 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.66% or 0.39 to $58.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.41% or 0.26 to hit $63.73 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 5.92 to trade at $1293.22 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.11% to 205.260, while USD/LKR fell 0.01% to 153.740.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 92.62.