Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Trading, Telecoms and Palm Oil sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.20% to hit a new 6-months low.
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, Sigiriya Village Hotels PLC (CM:SIGV) added 11.11% or 7.00 points to end at 70.00 and Good Hope PLC (CM:GOOD) was up 11.04% or 159.10 points to 1599.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which fell 23.98% or 599.40 points to trade at 1900.00 at the close. Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) declined 16.27% or 301.10 points to end at 1550.00 and PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH) was down 14.29% or 0.10 points to 0.70.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 98 to 98 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.04% or 0.01 to $41.63 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.20% or 0.09 to hit $44.52 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.36% or 3.80 to trade at $1069.10 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.42% to 216.010, while USD/LKR rose 0.07% to 143.415.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 100.06.