Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Information Technology, Power & Energy and Banking, Financials & Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share added 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were HVA Foods PLC (CM:HVAF), which rose 32.79% or 2.00 points to trade at 8.10 at the close. Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 25.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.500 and Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) was up 18.18% or 0.200 points to 1.300 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nanda Investments and Finance PLC (CM:NAND), which lost 20.21% or 7.80 points to trade at 30.80 in late trade. Lanka Ashok Leyland PLC (CM:ASHO) declined 10.20% or 125.90 points to end at 1109.00 and Lankem Ceylon PLC (CM:LCEY) shed 8.25% or 4.90 points to 54.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 97 to 81 and 56 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.25% or 0.62 to $50.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.02% or 0.57 to hit $56.36 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.64% or 8.26 to trade at $1293.26 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.51% to 202.360, while USD/LKR rose 0.07% to 153.440.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.36% at 93.21.