Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Investment Trust, Plantations and Construction & Engineering sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.300 at the close. Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) added 14.29% or 0.100 points to end at 0.800 and Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) was up 12.50% or 0.100 points to 0.900 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kelani Valley Plantations PLC (CM:KVAL), which lost 16.49% or 13.80 points to trade at 69.90 in late trade. People’s Merchant Finance PLC (CM:PMB) declined 13.95% or 1.80 points to end at 11.10 and Bansei Royal Resorts Hikkaduwa Limited (CM:BANS) shed 13.33% or 0.80 points to 5.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 80 to 79 and 71 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.41% or 0.27 to $65.25 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.24% or 0.18 to hit $75.56 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.28% or 3.70 to trade at $1298.50 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.67% to 213.120, while USD/LKR rose 0.16% to 158.720.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 93.63.