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Sri Lanka shares lower at close of trade; CSE All-Share down 0.09%

Published 12/06/2017, 08:45 pm
© Reuters.  Sri Lanka shares lower at close of trade; CSE All-Share down 0.09%
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Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Services, Palm Oil and Information Technology sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.09%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI), which rose 17.19% or 73.20 points to trade at 499.00 at the close. PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH) added 12.50% or 0.100 points to end at 0.900 and SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) was up 12.50% or 0.1000 points to 0.9000 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Ceylon Leather Products PLC (CM:CLPL), which lost 10.66% or 7.40 points to trade at 62.00 in late trade. Colombo Fort Land & Building PLC (CM:CFLB) declined 10.45% or 2.30 points to end at 19.70 and Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) shed 7.14% or 0.100 points to 1.300.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 97 to 85 and 60 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 1.27% or 0.58 to $46.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.37% or 0.66 to hit $48.81 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.09% or 1.09 to trade at $1270.31 a troy ounce.

GBP/LKR was down 0.24% to 194.335, while USD/LKR fell 0.30% to 152.270.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 97.17.

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