Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Plantations, Power & Energy and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH), which rose 100.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.2000 at the close. Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 20.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.600 and Convenience Foods (Lanka) PLC (CM:SOY) was up 13.24% or 43.70 points to 373.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kahawatte Plantations PLC (CM:KAHA), which lost 15.25% or 6.10 points to trade at 33.90 in late trade. Nuwara Eliya Hotels Co PLC (CM:NEH) declined 13.87% or 181.20 points to end at 1125.00 and Arpico Finance Company PLC (CM:ARPI) shed 8.82% or 15.00 points to 155.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 78 to 71 and 73 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.58% or 0.27 to $46.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.43% or 0.22 to hit $51.44 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.27 to trade at $1317.63 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.02% to 197.675, while USD/LKR rose 0.01% to 152.860.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 92.41.