Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Stores & Supplies, Beverages & Tobacco and Power & Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were PC House PLC (CM:PCHO), which rose 50.00% or 0.100 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. Meanwhile, Central Investments and Finance PLC (CM:CIFL) added 14.29% or 0.100 points to end at 0.800 and Union Chemicals Lanka PLC (CM:UCHE) was up 12.80% or 59.00 points to 520.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Metropolitan Resource Holdings PLC (CM:MPRH), which fell 15.31% or 4.70 points to trade at 26.00 at the close. Pegasus Hotels of Ceylon PLC (CM:PEG) declined 12.28% or 5.60 points to end at 40.00 and Hapugastenne Plantations PLC (CM:HAPU) was down 8.78% or 2.80 points to 29.10.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 102 to 92 and 21 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.28% or 1.26 to $54.26 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.89% or 1.75 to hit $58.58 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.32% or 3.70 to trade at $1164.10 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was up 0.06% to 209.200, while USD/LKR rose 0.26% to 134.140.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.30% at 96.67.