Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Motors, Trading and Investment Trust sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share added 0.44%.
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. Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) added 25.00% or 0.200 points to end at 1.000 and Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) was up 18.73% or 323.40 points to 2050.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indo Malay PLC (CM:INDO), which lost 24.80% or 354.50 points to trade at 1075.10 in late trade. Industrial Asphalts (Ceylon) PLC (CM:ASPH) declined 13.78% or 43.40 points to end at 271.60 and Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) shed 8.33% or 0.100 points to 1.100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 145 to 47 and 40 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.32% or 0.15 to $47.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.24% or 0.12 to hit $51.15 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.62% or 8.02 to trade at $1300.42 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.08% to 197.705, while USD/LKR rose 0.01% to 153.310.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 93.44.