Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Information Technology, Trading and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Anilana Hotels & Properties Ltd (CM:ANIL), which rose 21.43% or 0.300 points to trade at 1.700 at the close. J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI) added 19.40% or 82.70 points to end at 509.00 and Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) was up 14.29% or 0.100 points to 0.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which lost 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.100 in late trade. PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH) declined 50.00% or 0.1000 points to end at 0.1000 and Taprobane Holdings PLC (CM:TAPR) shed 18.00% or 0.900 points to 4.100.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 98 to 86 and 60 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.06% or 0.46 to $43.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.26% or 0.58 to hit $46.62 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.50% or 6.29 to trade at $1252.69 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.14% to 195.380, while USD/LKR rose 0.01% to 153.260.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 96.66.