Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Motors and Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH), which rose 20.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.600 at the close. Capital Alliance Finance PLC (CM:CAFL) added 17.39% or 4.00 points to end at 27.00 and Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) was up 16.67% or 0.100 points to 0.700 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Multi Finance PLC (CM:MULT), which lost 17.61% or 2.80 points to trade at 13.10 in late trade. SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) declined 16.67% or 0.1000 points to end at 0.5000 and Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) shed 10.00% or 0.100 points to 0.900.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 88 to 61 and 67 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.09% or 0.06 to $66.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.51% or 0.36 to hit $69.79 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.41% or 5.50 to trade at $1346.60 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.37% to 217.120, while USD/LKR rose 0.03% to 153.760.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 88.96.