Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Land & Property, Power & Energy and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.09%.
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, SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB) added 16.67% or 0.1000 points to end at 0.7000 and Industrial Asphalts (Ceylon) PLC (CM:ASPH) was up 16.00% or 48.00 points to 348.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Good Hope PLC (CM:GOOD), which fell 12.90% or 200.00 points to trade at 1350.00 at the close. Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC (CM:SWAR) declined 11.11% or 0.100 points to end at 0.800 and Nation Lanka Finance PLC (CM:CSF) was down 8.33% or 0.100 points to 1.100.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 82 to 68 and 52 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.89% or 0.52 to $57.84 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.63% or 0.40 to hit $63.33 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.51% or 6.50 to trade at $1275.80 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.60% to 206.240, while USD/LKR fell 0.04% to 153.590.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 93.25.