Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Construction & Engineering, Services and Trading sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Horana Plantations PLC (CM:HOPL), which rose 12.65% or 3.20 points to trade at 28.50 at the close. Hunas Falls Hotels PLC (CM:HUNA) added 12.36% or 5.60 points to end at 50.90 and On’ally Holdings PLC (CM:ONAL) was up 8.43% or 3.80 points to 48.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING), which lost 16.47% or 9.90 points to trade at 50.20 in late trade. Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) declined 12.50% or 0.100 points to end at 0.700 and Serendib Land PLC (CM:SLND) shed 11.93% or 176.70 points to 1305.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 101 to 71 and 64 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.46% or 0.26 to $56.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.70% or 0.44 to hit $62.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.37% or 4.77 to trade at $1291.73 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.37% to 203.910, while USD/LKR rose 0.10% to 153.820.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 93.60.