Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Trading, Land & Property and Diversified Holdings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 100.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING) added 13.93% or 8.50 points to end at 69.50 and Ceylon Tea Services PLC (CM:CTEA) was up 13.82% or 76.50 points to 630.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH), which lost 50.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.1000 in late trade. Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC (CM:SWAR) declined 7.69% or 0.100 points to end at 1.200 and Lighthouse Hotel PLC (CM:LHL) shed 7.34% or 3.50 points to 44.20.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 119 to 70 and 58 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.53% or 0.69 to $45.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.35% or 0.64 to hit $48.16 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.11 to trade at $1216.81 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.02% to 197.485, while USD/LKR fell 0.04% to 153.660.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 95.50.