Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Land & Property, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.32% to hit a new 3-months high.
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, Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) added 50.00% or 0.100 points to end at 0.300 and Union Chemicals Lanka PLC (CM:UCHE) was up 20.00% or 80.00 points to 480.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC (CM:SWAD), which fell 24.29% or 3112.50 points to trade at 9700.00 at the close. Serendib Hotels PLC (CM:SHOT) declined 15.86% or 3.60 points to end at 19.10 and Printcare PLC (CM:CARE) was down 13.13% or 4.40 points to 29.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 109 to 76 and 60 ended unchanged.
Shares in Adam Investments Ltd (CM:ADAM) rose to all time lows; up 50.00% or 0.100 to 0.300.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.91% or 0.56 to $61.23 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.60% or 0.39 to hit $64.86 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1330.70 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.72% to 216.465, while USD/LKR fell 0.13% to 155.290.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 89.78.