Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Investment Trust and Information Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Hotel Sigiriya PLC (CM:HSIG), which rose 25.00% or 14.70 points to trade at 73.50 at the close. Meanwhile, SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) added 16.67% or 0.1000 points to end at 0.7000 and Laxapana Batteries PLC (CM:LITE) was up 14.29% or 1.50 points to 12.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Horana Plantations PLC (CM:HOPL), which fell 15.92% or 3.90 points to trade at 20.60 at the close. Amaya Leisure PLC (CM:CONN) declined 10.36% or 5.80 points to end at 50.20 and Tal Lanka Hotels PLC (CM:TAJ) was down 8.29% or 1.50 points to 16.60.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 93 to 83 and 52 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.62% or 0.38 to $61.63 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.39% or 0.25 to hit $64.62 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.80 to trade at $1327.20 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.29% to 214.225, while USD/LKR fell 0.11% to 154.960.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 89.93.