Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Land & Property, Services and Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC Pharma PLC (CM:PCPH), which rose 100.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.2000 at the close. Meanwhile, Eastern Merchants PLC (CM:EMER) added 19.05% or 1.20 points to end at 7.50 and Serendib Hotels PLC (CM:SHOT) was up 15.24% or 3.20 points to 24.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which fell 14.29% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.6000 at the close. Lankem Ceylon PLC (CM:LCEY) declined 9.83% or 4.60 points to end at 42.20 and Amaya Leisure PLC (CM:CONN) was down 8.33% or 5.00 points to 55.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 101 to 63 and 62 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.61% or 0.29 to $47.77 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.35% or 0.19 to hit $53.59 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.64% or 8.59 to trade at $1342.61 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was unchanged 0.00% to 201.820, while USD/LKR rose 0.04% to 152.840.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 91.47.