Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Investment Trust, Land & Property and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were On’ally Holdings PLC (CM:ONAL), which rose 18.33% or 8.80 points to trade at 56.80 at the close. CT Land Development PLC (CM:CTLD) added 16.90% or 7.20 points to end at 49.80 and HNB Assurance PLC (CM:HASU) was up 10.48% or 5.50 points to 58.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included EB Creasy and Company PLC (CM:EBCR), which lost 19.92% or 249.00 points to trade at 1001.00 in late trade. Kelani Valley Plantations PLC (CM:KVAL) declined 19.60% or 13.70 points to end at 56.20 and Indo Malay PLC (CM:INDO) shed 19.56% or 279.60 points to 1150.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 110 to 61 and 40 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.59% or 0.32 to $53.54 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.58% or 0.33 to hit $56.37 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.39% or 4.85 to trade at $1231.05 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.10% to 188.730, while USD/LKR fell 0.02% to 150.770.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 100.77.