Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Footwear & Textile, Telecoms and Land & Property sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.45% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 200.00% or 0.200 points to trade at 0.300 at the close. Meanwhile, Agalawatte Plantations PLC (CM:AGAL) added 19.50% or 3.90 points to end at 23.90 and Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) was up 18.52% or 0.50 points to 3.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING), which fell 18.28% or 17.00 points to trade at 76.00 at the close. Huejay International Investments PLC (CM:HUEJ) declined 16.80% or 10.90 points to end at 54.00 and Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) was down 12.75% or 387.70 points to 2652.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 124 to 95 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.97% or 0.90 to $44.80 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.84% or 0.90 to hit $47.70 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.15% or 13.20 to trade at $1132.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.31% to 213.805, while USD/LKR fell 0.28% to 140.665.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.05% at 96.42.