Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Services, Plantations and Power & Energy sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share rose 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which rose 20.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.6000 at the close. Meanwhile, Kelsey Developments PLC (CM:KDL) added 19.05% or 6.40 points to end at 40.00 and Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) was up 16.71% or 250.30 points to 1747.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU), which fell 12.50% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.700 at the close. Muller & Phipps PLC (CM:MULL) declined 10.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.900 and Ceylon and Foreign Trades PLC (CM:CFT) was down 7.69% or 0.40 points to 4.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 95 to 60 and 56 ended unchanged.
Shares in Muller & Phipps PLC (CM:MULL) fell to 5-year lows; down 10.00% or 0.100 to 0.900.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.36% or 0.86 to $64.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.40% or 0.96 to hit $69.61 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.12% or 1.60 to trade at $1338.50 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.63% to 220.280, while USD/LKR rose 0.39% to 155.540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.52.