Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Footwear & Textile and Land & Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.09%.
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. Amaya Leisure PLC (CM:CONN) added 14.42% or 7.50 points to end at 59.50 and Nuwara Eliya Hotels Co PLC (CM:NEH) was up 12.11% or 140.40 points to 1300.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL), which lost 10.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.900 in late trade. Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC (CM:SWAR) declined 9.09% or 0.100 points to end at 1.000 and Amana Takaful Life Ltd (CM:ANTK) shed 7.14% or 0.10 points to 1.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 100 to 86 and 58 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.02% or 0.01 to $53.91 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.13% or 0.08 to hit $60.21 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.08 to trade at $1272.88 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.39% to 202.055, while USD/LKR rose 0.02% to 153.580.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 94.55.