Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Trading and Land & Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.80%.
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. Udapussellawa Plantations PLC (CM:UDPL) added 20.70% or 5.30 points to end at 30.90 and Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) was up 18.99% or 287.30 points to 1800.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hotel Sigiriya PLC (CM:HSIG), which lost 10.09% or 11.00 points to trade at 98.00 in late trade. Equity One PLC (CM:EQIT) declined 9.71% or 4.30 points to end at 40.00 and Tangerine Beach Hotels PLC (CM:TANG) shed 8.64% or 7.40 points to 78.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 154 to 67 and 15 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.58% or 1.17 to $44.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.88% or 0.93 to hit $48.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.11% or 1.30 to trade at $1138.50 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.46% to 205.570, while USD/LKR fell 0.27% to 134.320.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.35% at 95.72.