Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Land & Property, Healthcare and Banking, Financials & Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share gained 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the CSE All-Share were Serendib Engineering Group PLC (CM:IDL), which rose 20.97% or 1.30 points to trade at 7.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Singer Industries PLC (CM:SINI) added 20.27% or 29.50 points to end at 175.00 and Office Equipment PLC (CM:OFEQ) was up 17.65% or 12.00 points to 80.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Serendib Land PLC (CM:SLND), which fell 22.35% or 371.20 points to trade at 1290.00 at the close. Eden Hotel Lanka PLC (CM:EDEN) declined 8.54% or 1.40 points to end at 15.00 and Namunukula Plantations PLC (CM:NAMU) was down 6.42% or 4.80 points to 70.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Colombo Stock Exchange by 103 to 44 and 47 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.98% or 0.50 to $50.56 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.04% or 0.56 to hit $53.38 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.39% or 4.55 to trade at $1173.95 a troy ounce.
GBP/LKR was down 0.83% to 185.950, while USD/LKR fell 0.33% to 147.770.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 101.04.