Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Motors, Investment Trust and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.39%.
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 0.200 at the close. Abans Finance PLC (CM:AFSL) added 11.11% or 4.50 points to end at 45.00 and J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI) was up 10.00% or 30.00 points to 330.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hunas Falls Hotels PLC (CM:HUNA), which lost 9.50% or 6.30 points to trade at 60.00 in late trade. Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) declined 7.14% or 0.10 points to end at 1.40 and Tal Lanka Hotels PLC (CM:TAJ) shed 6.77% or 2.20 points to 30.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 136 to 96 and 11 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.23% or 0.10 to $43.40 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.87% or 0.43 to hit $50.62 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.64% or 7.20 to trade at $1116.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.05% to 208.755, while USD/LKR fell 0.06% to 133.715.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.32% at 96.59.