Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Services, Plantations and Power & Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which rose 20.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.6000 at the close. Kelsey Developments PLC (CM:KDL) added 19.05% or 6.40 points to end at 40.00 and Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) was up 16.71% or 250.30 points to 1747.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU), which lost 12.50% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.700 in late trade. Muller & Phipps PLC (CM:MULL) declined 10.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.900 and Ceylon and Foreign Trades PLC (CM:CFT) shed 7.69% or 0.40 points to 4.80.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 60 and 56 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.36% or 0.86 to $64.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.40% or 0.96 to hit $69.61 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.12% or 1.60 to trade at $1338.50 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.63% to 220.280, while USD/LKR rose 0.39% to 155.540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.52.