Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Trading, Telecoms and Motors sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.31% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Selinsing PLC (CM:SELI), which rose 18.54% or 250.20 points to trade at 1600.00 at the close. SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) added 14.29% or 0.1000 points to end at 0.8000 and Kelani Valley Plantations PLC (CM:KVAL) was up 10.35% or 5.90 points to 62.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT), which lost 12.37% or 14.10 points to trade at 99.90 in late trade. Lanka Ashok Leyland PLC (CM:ASHO) declined 11.60% or 173.90 points to end at 1325.00 and Lucky Lanka Milk Processing Company Ltd (CM:LLMP) shed 9.76% or 0.400 points to 3.700.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 100 to 72 and 40 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.35% or 0.66 to $48.22 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.31% or 0.66 to hit $49.69 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.28% or 3.65 to trade at $1283.25 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.16% to 205.395, while USD/LKR fell 0.09% to 144.610.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.46% at 94.85.