Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power & Energy and Land & Property sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.33%.
The best performers 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. Meanwhile, PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH) added 20.00% or 0.10 points to end at 0.50 and Sigiriya Village Hotels PLC (CM:SIGV) was up 15.65% or 10.80 points to 79.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which fell 14.12% or 328.70 points to trade at 2000.00 at the close. Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) declined 12.21% or 119.10 points to end at 856.00 and SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) was down 11.11% or 0.10 points to 0.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 125 to 83 and 16 ended unchanged.
Shares in Sigiriya Village Hotels PLC (CM:SIGV) rose to 52-week highs; up 15.65% or 10.80 to 79.80.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.23% or 0.09 to $36.67 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.69% or 0.26 to hit $36.97 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.22% or 2.40 to trade at $1077.60 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.47% to 213.530, while USD/LKR rose 0.81% to 145.060.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.34% at 99.27.