Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Palm Oil, Services and Land & Property sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share fell 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Selinsing PLC (CM:SELI), which rose 16.98% or 229.20 points to trade at 1579.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) added 16.67% or 0.100 points to end at 0.700 and Indo Malay PLC (CM:INDO) was up 13.92% or 231.00 points to 1890.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Serendib Land PLC (CM:SLND), which fell 12.69% or 268.80 points to trade at 1850.00 at the close. Printcare PLC (CM:CARE) declined 12.20% or 5.00 points to end at 36.00 and Multi Finance PLC (CM:MULT) was down 10.56% or 1.90 points to 16.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 115 to 67 and 49 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.21% or 0.09 to $43.27 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.07% or 0.03 to hit $44.56 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.15% or 1.90 to trade at $1248.40 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.20% to 210.170, while USD/LKR rose 0.15% to 146.730.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 94.85.