Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Telecoms and Trading sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Kelsey Developments PLC (CM:KDL), which rose 24.24% or 8.00 points to trade at 41.00 at the close. John Keells PLC (CM:JKL) added 16.84% or 10.00 points to end at 69.40 and Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) was up 14.29% or 0.100 points to 0.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kahawatte Plantations PLC (CM:KAHA), which lost 22.25% or 8.70 points to trade at 30.40 in late trade. Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) declined 13.33% or 8.40 points to end at 54.60 and Eastern Merchants PLC (CM:EMER) shed 8.33% or 0.50 points to 5.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 67 and 54 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.60% or 0.38 to $63.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.50% or 0.34 to hit $67.99 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 1.10 to trade at $1327.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.14% to 217.945, while USD/LKR fell 0.07% to 155.450.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 90.11.