Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Trading, Construction & Engineering and Information Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.24% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were J L Morison Sons & Jones (Ceylon) PLC (CM:MORI), which rose 17.86% or 94.70 points to trade at 625.00 at the close. Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) added 16.01% or 9.30 points to end at 67.40 and Lake House Printers and Publishers PLC (CM:LPRT) was up 12.14% or 15.90 points to 146.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ), which lost 21.00% or 14.70 points to trade at 55.30 in late trade. Harischandra Mills PLC (CM:HARI) declined 14.81% or 200.00 points to end at 1150.00 and Good Hope PLC (CM:GOOD) shed 14.55% or 170.50 points to 1001.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 104 to 84 and 48 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.30% or 0.19 to $62.22 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.18% or 0.12 to hit $66.09 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1311.80 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.71% to 219.015, while USD/LKR rose 0.01% to 156.060.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 89.69.