Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Construction & Engineering, Services and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.300 at the close. Samson International PLC (CM:SIL) added 24.95% or 23.70 points to end at 118.70 and Tess Agro PLC (CM:TESS) was up 20.00% or 0.100 points to 0.600 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Huejay International Investments PLC (CM:HUEJ), which lost 23.73% or 7.50 points to trade at 24.10 in late trade. J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI) declined 20.00% or 125.00 points to end at 500.00 and Trade Finance & Investments PLC (CM:TFIL) shed 19.71% or 13.50 points to 55.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 86 to 77 and 51 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.16% or 0.11 to $66.92 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.25% or 0.18 to hit $72.25 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.70 to trade at $1217.20 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.62% to 204.575, while USD/LKR rose 0.07% to 160.070.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 95.84.