Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Power & Energy, Land & Property and Investment Trust sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share added 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA), which rose 20.50% or 11.40 points to trade at 67.00 at the close. Meanwhile, PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH) added 20.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.600 and F L C Holdings PLC (CM:FREE) was up 18.42% or 0.700 points to 4.500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC (CM:SWAD), which fell 21.95% or 2812.50 points to trade at 10000.00 at the close. Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) declined 19.87% or 297.60 points to end at 1200.00 and Hunter & Company PLC (CM:HUNT) was down 12.41% or 57.40 points to 405.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 125 to 54 and 52 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.31% or 0.22 to $70.11 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.69% or 0.51 to hit $73.94 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.43% or 5.40 to trade at $1241.20 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.73% to 209.450, while USD/LKR rose 0.13% to 159.590.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 94.94.