Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Diversified Holdings, Plantations and Banking, Financials & Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM), which rose 100.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. Sunshine Holdings PLC (CM:SUN) added 19.57% or 9.00 points to end at 55.00 and Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) was up 16.67% or 0.100 points to 0.700 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Printcare PLC (CM:CARE), which lost 12.67% or 3.80 points to trade at 26.20 in late trade. Hayleys Fibre PLC (CM:HEXP) declined 5.04% or 3.40 points to end at 64.10 and Lighthouse Hotel PLC (CM:LHL) shed 5.04% or 1.70 points to 32.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 91 to 63 and 58 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.89% or 0.64 to $71.14 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.89% or 0.72 to hit $80.06 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.20% or 2.40 to trade at $1232.70 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.69% to 225.845, while USD/LKR rose 0.32% to 170.910.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 94.71.