Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Services, Footwear & Textile and Motors sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.38% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which rose 25.00% or 166.90 points to trade at 834.60 at the close. J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI) added 18.56% or 78.90 points to end at 504.00 and Huejay International Investments PLC (CM:HUEJ) was up 15.91% or 6.70 points to 48.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which lost 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.100 in late trade. Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC (CM:SWAD) declined 24.07% or 3250.00 points to end at 10250.00 and Agalawatte Plantations PLC (CM:AGAL) shed 12.37% or 2.40 points to 17.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 115 to 75 and 61 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.30% or 0.13 to $43.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.41% or 0.19 to hit $45.83 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.39% or 4.89 to trade at $1248.39 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.01% to 193.465, while USD/LKR rose 0.03% to 153.250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 97.34.