Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Beverages & Tobacco and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.54%.
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. Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 50.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.300 and Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) was up 28.57% or 0.200 points to 0.900 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ceylon Tea Services PLC (CM:CTEA), which lost 8.24% or 50.30 points to trade at 559.90 in late trade. Ceylinco Insurance PLC (CM:CINS) declined 7.79% or 143.70 points to end at 1700.00 and Colombo Fort Investments PLC (CM:CFI) shed 7.54% or 4.90 points to 60.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 96 to 88 and 53 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.68% or 0.41 to $61.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.56% or 0.36 to hit $65.00 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.14% or 1.80 to trade at $1325.30 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.08% to 217.675, while USD/LKR rose 0.10% to 155.900.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 89.78.