Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Information Technology, Banking, Financials & Insurance and Land & Property sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 100.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. People’s Merchant Finance PLC (CM:PMB) added 23.89% or 2.70 points to end at 14.00 and SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) was up 20.00% or 0.1000 points to 0.6000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Printcare PLC (CM:CARE), which lost 21.68% or 7.50 points to trade at 27.10 in late trade. Serendib Land PLC (CM:SLND) declined 18.73% or 311.20 points to end at 1350.00 and Harischandra Mills PLC (CM:HARI) shed 17.85% or 499.90 points to 2300.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 129 to 75 and 47 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.60% or 0.30 to $50.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.64% or 0.34 to hit $52.79 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.26% or 3.25 to trade at $1241.75 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.37% to 189.220, while USD/LKR fell 0.04% to 152.020.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 100.44.