Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Palm Oil and Trading sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Colombo City Holdings PLC (CM:PHAR), which rose 18.36% or 114.80 points to trade at 740.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Lanka Ceramic PLC (CM:CERA) added 12.24% or 15.70 points to end at 144.00 and Selinsing PLC (CM:SELI) was up 11.12% or 150.10 points to 1499.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which fell 24.84% or 471.90 points to trade at 1428.00 at the close. Shalimar Estates (CM:SHAL) declined 20.88% or 475.00 points to end at 1800.00 and Standard Capital PLC (CM:SING) was down 20.00% or 18.00 points to 72.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 107 to 91 and 39 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.18% or 0.08 to $45.53 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.45% or 0.21 to hit $46.87 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.51% or 6.85 to trade at $1325.45 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.16% to 191.340, while USD/LKR rose 0.38% to 146.055.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 97.13.