Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Plantations, Palm Oil and Construction & Engineering sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Gestetner of Ceylon PLC (CM:GEST), which rose 12.38% or 13.00 points to trade at 118.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Property Development PLC (CM:PDL) added 10.89% or 9.80 points to end at 99.80 and Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) was up 8.33% or 0.100 points to 1.300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL), which fell 20.00% or 0.300 points to trade at 1.200 at the close. Malwatte Valley Plantations PLC (CM:MAL) declined 6.90% or 0.200 points to end at 2.700 and Good Hope PLC (CM:GOOD) was down 6.69% or 98.80 points to 1377.30.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 85 to 72 and 55 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.31% or 0.66 to $50.95 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.28% or 0.66 to hit $52.34 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.64% or 8.05 to trade at $1270.95 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.47% to 181.515, while USD/LKR rose 0.27% to 147.540.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.16% at 97.72.