Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Investment Trust, Land & Property and Power & Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.11%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Singhe Hospitals Ltd (CM:SIGH), which rose 21.05% or 0.400 points to trade at 2.300 at the close. Meanwhile, Hikkaduwa Beach Resort Ltd (CM:CITH) added 14.29% or 2.00 points to end at 16.00 and Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC (CM:LION) was up 12.63% or 48.00 points to 428.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SMB Leasing PLC (CM:SEMB), which fell 12.50% or 0.1000 points to trade at 0.7000 at the close. Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC (CM:BLUE) declined 11.11% or 0.30 points to end at 2.40 and Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) was down 11.11% or 0.100 points to 0.800.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 96 to 73 and 53 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.56% or 0.26 to $46.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.46% or 0.22 to hit $47.39 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.09% or 1.15 to trade at $1326.25 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.46% to 194.460, while USD/LKR rose 0.68% to 146.905.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 96.67.