Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Power & Energy, Trading and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.10%.
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. Equity Two PLC (CM:ETWO) added 24.33% or 14.60 points to end at 74.60 and Selinsing PLC (CM:SELI) was up 22.27% or 136.60 points to 750.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH), which lost 14.29% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.600 in late trade. York Arcade Holdings PLC (CM:YORK) declined 11.00% or 11.00 points to end at 89.00 and Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) shed 10.44% or 5.90 points to 50.60.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 102 to 91 and 55 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.70% or 0.50 to $71.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.80% or 0.64 to hit $79.16 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.45% or 5.80 to trade at $1295.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.61% to 211.890, while USD/LKR rose 0.08% to 157.990.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 93.74.