Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Trading, Land & Property and Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which rose 23.27% or 12.80 points to trade at 67.80 at the close. Royal Palms Beach Hotels PLC (CM:RPBH) added 18.64% or 3.30 points to end at 21.00 and Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) was up 18.55% or 11.50 points to 73.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL), which lost 24.71% or 426.60 points to trade at 1300.00 in late trade. PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH) declined 14.29% or 0.100 points to end at 0.600 and Taprobane Holdings PLC (CM:TAPR) shed 12.07% or 0.700 points to 5.100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 86 to 64 and 56 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.34% or 0.21 to $61.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $67.84 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.27% or 3.50 to trade at $1315.00 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.15% to 208.140, while USD/LKR fell 0.03% to 153.660.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 91.67.