Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Footwear & Textile, Construction & Engineering and Information Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.65%.
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. Ceylon Beverage Holdings PLC (CM:BREW) added 14.29% or 120.00 points to end at 960.00 and Associated Motor Finance Company PLC (CM:ASSO) was up 9.61% or 40.40 points to 461.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Janashakthi Insurance Company PLC (CM:JINS), which lost 12.17% or 2.80 points to trade at 20.20 in late trade. Chilaw Finance PLC (CM:CHIL) declined 11.32% or 3.00 points to end at 23.50 and Samson International PLC (CM:SIL) shed 10.84% or 12.80 points to 105.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 170 to 59 and 16 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.56% or 0.65 to $40.62 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.66% or 0.79 to hit $46.38 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.98% or 11.00 to trade at $1138.90 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.58% to 208.575, while USD/LKR fell 0.71% to 133.005.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 96.26.