Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Services, Information Technology and Trading sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.09%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which rose 72.50% or 777.10 points to trade at 1849.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Millennium Housing Developers PLC (CM:MHDL) added 19.05% or 1.60 points to end at 8.40 and Metropolitan Resource Holdings PLC (CM:MPRH) was up 13.97% or 3.80 points to 31.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were CT Land Development PLC (CM:CTLD), which fell 7.69% or 4.00 points to trade at 48.00 at the close. F L C Holdings PLC (CM:FREE) declined 7.14% or 0.10 points to end at 1.40 and Commercial Leasing & Finance PLC (CM:COLE) was down 6.98% or 0.30 points to 4.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 108 to 94 and 23 ended unchanged.
Shares in Commercial Leasing & Finance PLC (CM:COLE) fell to 52-week lows; down 6.98% or 0.30 to 4.00.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.31% or 1.06 to $44.86 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.16% or 1.05 to hit $47.84 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.32% or 3.50 to trade at $1105.80 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.86% to 212.940, while USD/LKR fell 0.84% to 137.915.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 95.61.