Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Plantations, Trading and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.300 at the close. Laxapana Batteries PLC (CM:LITE) added 14.29% or 1.50 points to end at 12.00 and Nanda Investments and Finance PLC (CM:NAND) was up 13.27% or 4.10 points to 35.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which lost 16.97% or 9.20 points to trade at 45.00 in late trade. Janashakthi Insurance Company PLC (CM:JINS) declined 14.98% or 4.60 points to end at 26.10 and Hunter & Company PLC (CM:HUNT) shed 12.63% or 60.00 points to 415.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 81 and 53 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.48% or 0.29 to $60.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.38% or 0.24 to hit $63.59 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.01% or 13.20 to trade at $1318.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.31% to 213.885, while USD/LKR rose 0.11% to 155.210.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 90.09.