Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Information Technology, Diversified Holdings and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH), which rose 100.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.2000 at the close. PC House PLC (CM:PCHO) added 100.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.200 and J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI) was up 23.15% or 98.70 points to 525.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Udapussellawa Plantations PLC (CM:UDPL), which lost 30.15% or 8.20 points to trade at 19.00 in late trade. Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC (CM:SWAD) declined 24.07% or 3250.00 points to end at 10250.00 and Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) shed 16.46% or 138.90 points to 705.10.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 103 to 86 and 53 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.83% or 0.37 to $45.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.76% or 0.36 to hit $47.90 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.14% or 1.73 to trade at $1247.37 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.29% to 198.925, while USD/LKR rose 0.08% to 153.460.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 95.59.