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Sri Lanka shares lower at close of trade; CSE All-Share down 0.33%

Published 17/10/2018, 11:45
© Reuters.  Sri Lanka shares lower at close of trade; CSE All-Share down 0.33%
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Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Manufacturing, Land & Property and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.33%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH), which rose 25.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.500 at the close. Sathosa Motors PLC (CM:SMOT) added 20.86% or 86.30 points to end at 500.00 and Tess Agro PLC (CM:TESS) was up 20.00% or 0.100 points to 0.600 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU), which lost 14.29% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.600 in late trade. Summit Finance PLC (CM:PRIM) declined 11.62% or 2.30 points to end at 17.50 and Lanka Tiles PLC (CM:TILE) shed 10.37% or 9.00 points to 77.80.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 104 to 66 and 48 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.63% or 0.45 to $71.47 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.43% or 0.35 to hit $81.06 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.11% or 1.40 to trade at $1229.60 a troy ounce.

GBP/LKR was down 0.49% to 224.595, while USD/LKR rose 0.03% to 170.910.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 94.92.

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