Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Palm Oil and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share added 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were ASCOT Holdings PLC (CM:ASCO), which rose 30.00% or 9.90 points to trade at 42.90 at the close. Ceylon Beverage Holdings PLC (CM:BREW) added 13.80% or 69.00 points to end at 569.00 and Gestetner of Ceylon PLC (CM:GEST) was up 13.61% or 14.60 points to 121.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Serendib Land PLC (CM:SLND), which lost 24.07% or 356.70 points to trade at 1125.00 in late trade. Tess Agro PLC (CM:TESS) declined 7.14% or 0.100 points to end at 1.300 and Bansei Royal Resorts Hikkaduwa Limited (CM:BANS) shed 6.25% or 0.50 points to 7.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 90 to 67 and 66 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.77% or 0.40 to $52.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.82% or 0.47 to hit $57.84 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.07% or 0.84 to trade at $1280.06 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.12% to 202.640, while USD/LKR rose 0.07% to 153.810.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.75.