Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Investment Trust, Land & Property and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Singhe Hospitals Ltd (CM:SIGH), which rose 21.05% or 0.400 points to trade at 2.300 at the close. Hikkaduwa Beach Resort Ltd (CM:CITH) added 14.29% or 2.00 points to end at 16.00 and Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC (CM:LION) was up 12.63% or 48.00 points to 428.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which lost 12.50% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.7000 in late trade. Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) declined 11.11% or 0.30 points to end at 2.40 and Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) shed 11.11% or 0.100 points to 0.800.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 96 to 73 and 53 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.56% or 0.26 to $46.39 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.46% or 0.22 to hit $47.39 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.09% or 1.15 to trade at $1326.25 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.46% to 194.460, while USD/LKR rose 0.68% to 146.905.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 96.66.