Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Construction & Engineering and Footwear & Textile sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.300 at the close. Hunas Falls Hotels PLC (CM:HUNA) added 13.40% or 7.80 points to end at 66.00 and Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) was up 11.11% or 0.100 points to 0.900 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Royal Palms Beach Hotels PLC (CM:RPBH), which lost 14.55% or 6.30 points to trade at 37.00 in late trade. Ramboda Falls PLC (CM:RFLL) declined 10.46% or 3.40 points to end at 29.10 and SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) shed 8.33% or 0.10 points to 1.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 132 to 99 and 16 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.40% or 0.68 to $47.47 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.81% or 0.99 to hit $53.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.96% or 10.40 to trade at $1096.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.05% to 207.350, while USD/LKR fell 0.21% to 133.610.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.61% at 96.75.