Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Footwear & Textile, Healthcare and Trading sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.31% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING), which rose 23.46% or 19.00 points to trade at 100.00 at the close. Balangoda Plantations PLC (CM:BALA) added 11.67% or 1.40 points to end at 13.40 and Chilaw Finance PLC (CM:CHIL) was up 9.84% or 1.90 points to 21.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tea Smallholder Factories PLC (CM:TSML), which lost 18.52% or 5.00 points to trade at 22.00 in late trade. Kelani Valley Plantations PLC (CM:KVAL) declined 13.56% or 8.00 points to end at 51.00 and People’s Merchant Finance PLC (CM:PMB) shed 10.55% or 2.10 points to 17.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 117 to 48 and 54 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.35% or 0.65 to $48.89 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.68% or 0.82 to hit $49.72 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.61% or 7.35 to trade at $1217.15 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.91% to 185.305, while USD/LKR fell 0.03% to 148.210.
The US Dollar Index was unchanged 0.00% at 100.94.