Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Palm Oil and Trading sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.15%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM), which rose 25.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.500 at the close. Meanwhile, Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) added 12.50% or 0.100 points to end at 0.900 and Nuwara Eliya Hotels Co PLC (CM:NEH) was up 12.11% or 140.40 points to 1300.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AIA Insurance Lanka PLC (CM:AVIV), which fell 10.48% or 36.40 points to trade at 311.00 at the close. Amaya Leisure PLC (CM:CONN) declined 10.17% or 6.00 points to end at 53.00 and Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) was down 7.69% or 0.100 points to 1.200.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 98 to 85 and 60 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.22% or 0.12 to $54.03 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.13% or 0.08 to hit $60.51 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.28% or 3.60 to trade at $1274.10 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.03% to 202.940, while USD/LKR rose 0.01% to 153.610.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 94.53.