Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Construction & Engineering and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.09% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Multi Finance PLC (CM:MULT), which rose 17.14% or 2.40 points to trade at 16.40 at the close. Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) added 15.15% or 144.70 points to end at 1100.00 and Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC (CM:MBSL) was up 13.53% or 1.80 points to 15.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which lost 11.11% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.8000 in late trade. Ceylon Tea Services PLC (CM:CTEA) declined 10.96% or 80.00 points to end at 650.00 and Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) shed 8.75% or 6.80 points to 70.90.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 94 to 90 and 51 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.69% or 0.77 to $46.27 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.35% or 0.65 to hit $48.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.23% or 3.05 to trade at $1352.25 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.26% to 193.975, while USD/LKR rose 0.06% to 145.450.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.34% at 94.63.