Investing.com – Sri Lanka equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Footwear & Textile and Investment Trust sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share declined 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CSE All-Share were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which rose 20.00% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.6000 at the close. Maskeliya Plantations PLC (CM:MASK) added 18.57% or 1.30 points to end at 8.30 and Horana Plantations PLC (CM:HOPL) was up 15.64% or 2.80 points to 20.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lighthouse Hotel PLC (CM:LHL), which lost 9.14% or 5.30 points to trade at 52.70 in late trade. Beruwala Resorts PLC (CM:BERU) declined 9.09% or 0.100 points to end at 1.000 and PCH Holdings PLC (CM:PCHH) shed 8.33% or 0.100 points to 1.100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 125 to 81 and 57 ended unchanged on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.40% or 0.21 to $52.82 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.45% or 0.25 to hit $55.33 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.32% or 3.95 to trade at $1228.95 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.28% to 184.970, while USD/LKR rose 0.10% to 151.360.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 102.04.