Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Construction & Engineering and Power & Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.09% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Multi Finance PLC (CM:MULT), which rose 17.14% or 2.40 points to trade at 16.40 at the close. Meanwhile, Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO) added 15.15% or 144.70 points to end at 1100.00 and Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC (CM:MBSL) was up 13.53% or 1.80 points to 15.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which fell 11.11% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.8000 at the close. Ceylon Tea Services PLC (CM:CTEA) declined 10.96% or 80.00 points to end at 650.00 and Ceylon Printers PLC (CM:CPRT) was down 8.75% or 6.80 points to 70.90.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 94 to 90 and 51 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.69% or 0.77 to $46.27 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.35% or 0.65 to hit $48.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.23% or 3.05 to trade at $1352.25 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.26% to 193.975, while USD/LKR rose 0.06% to 145.450.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.34% at 94.63.