Good news from regulators lights market
The key benchmark opened in green yesterday following the following
the favour able news received from the regulators regarding the credit
issue. However during the mid-day trading the market lost the steam of
its bull run and wiped out its early gains to end negative.
Market turnover reached Rs 4.6bn. ASI lost 36.63 points (-0.52
percent) to end at 7,014.11 where as sensitive MPI gained 9.7 points
(+0.15%) to close at 6,436.89. Colombo Land & Development Plc (Rs 1.4bn)
made the highest contributions to the turnover with active trading.
Furthermore Vallibel one Plc (Rs 450.7mn) and Lanka Hospitals Plc (Rs
449.5mn) notably contributed to the daily turnover.
Meanwhile Panasia Power Plc, Seylan Development Plc and East West
Properties Plc demonstrated active trading. Foreign participation
amounted to 3.9 percent of the total market activity. At the end of the
day foreign investors were the net sellers with a net foreign outflow of
Rs 58.7mn. Lanka Securities Research
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