Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Construction & Engineering, Healthcare and Trading sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.04%.
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, Royal Palms Beach Hotels PLC (CM:RPBH) added 13.29% or 4.40 points to end at 37.50 and Hunter & Company PLC (CM:HUNT) was up 11.19% or 45.60 points to 453.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which fell 17.58% or 439.40 points to trade at 2060.00 at the close. Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) declined 13.31% or 404.70 points to end at 2635.00 and Namal Acuity (CM:NAMA) was down 9.90% or 11.00 points to 100.10.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 113 to 92 and 28 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.23% or 0.10 to $46.16 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.41% or 0.20 to hit $49.45 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.02% or 0.20 to trade at $1137.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.25% to 215.080, while USD/LKR rose 0.47% to 141.940.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.16% at 96.07.