Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Motors and Diversified Holdings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.12% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL), which rose 33.33% or 0.300 points to trade at 1.200 at the close. Commercial Development Company PLC (CM:COMD) added 14.60% or 12.10 points to end at 95.00 and East West Properties PLC (CM:EAST) was up 12.88% or 1.70 points to 14.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING), which lost 23.22% or 20.90 points to trade at 69.10 in late trade. Kahawatte Plantations PLC (CM:KAHA) declined 16.39% or 6.00 points to end at 30.60 and Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) shed 15.34% or 8.90 points to 49.10.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 102 to 80 and 44 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.00% or 0.50 to $49.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.92% or 0.47 to hit $50.85 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.56% or 7.45 to trade at $1319.45 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.24% to 196.755, while USD/LKR fell 0.25% to 146.285.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 95.58.