Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Services, Telecoms and Plantations sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Agalawatte Plantations PLC (CM:AGAL), which rose 9.52% or 2.00 points to trade at 23.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Amana Takaful PLC (CM:ATL) added 9.09% or 0.10 points to end at 1.20 and Arpico Finance Company PLC (CM:ARPI) was up 7.47% or 15.30 points to 220.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Kalamazoo Systems PLC (CM:KZOO), which fell 22.70% or 590.10 points to trade at 2010.00 at the close. Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) declined 14.29% or 0.100 points to end at 0.600 and Paragon Ceylon PLC (CM:PARA) was down 13.67% or 9.50 points to 60.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 97 to 87 and 45 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.93% or 0.43 to $46.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.82% or 0.39 to hit $47.99 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.47% or 6.05 to trade at $1269.45 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.19% to 210.380, while USD/LKR fell 0.24% to 145.725.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 94.01.