Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Trading, Plantations and Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.07%.
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. Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 25.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.500 and Lanka Cement PLC (CM:LCEM) was up 20.00% or 1.10 points to 6.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Samson International PLC (CM:SIL), which lost 15.34% or 14.50 points to trade at 80.00 in late trade. Nanda Investments and Finance PLC (CM:NAND) declined 11.76% or 4.80 points to end at 36.00 and Gestetner of Ceylon PLC (CM:GEST) shed 8.77% or 10.30 points to 107.10.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 118 to 77 and 51 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.14% or 0.07 to $51.63 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $57.16 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.23% or 2.99 to trade at $1291.69 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.43% to 204.810, while USD/LKR fell 0.01% to 153.110.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 92.94.