Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Trading, Information Technology and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.28%.
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. Agalawatte Plantations PLC (CM:AGAL) added 9.14% or 1.80 points to end at 21.50 and Muller & Phipps PLC (CM:MULL) was up 9.09% or 0.100 points to 1.200 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autodrome PLC (CM:AUTO), which lost 11.17% or 8.80 points to trade at 70.00 in late trade. Lankem Ceylon PLC (CM:LCEY) declined 8.49% or 4.50 points to end at 48.50 and Hunas Falls Hotels PLC (CM:HUNA) shed 7.82% or 3.90 points to 46.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 98 to 63 and 68 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.61% or 0.34 to $55.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.68% or 0.42 to hit $62.49 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.21% or 2.63 to trade at $1271.83 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.31% to 201.370, while USD/LKR fell 0.01% to 153.560.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 94.81.