09 August 2012 Bourse loses marginally

Malika1990 · 1 09 August 2012 Bourse loses marginally Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:27 pm

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Market ended on opposites today where retail investors were attracted to Renuka Holdings and related counters such as Coco Lanka voting and non-voting and Renuka Agri Foods.

ASI lost 37.99 points (-0.8%) to close at 4,851.88, MPI gained marginally by 0.43 points (0.01%) to close at 4,354.45 and the S&P SL 20 Index lost 14.16 points (-0.51%) to close at 2,739.29. Market turnover boosted to Rs.774mn supported by several crossings recorded from John Keells Holdings and Sampath Bank where those two stocks emerged as the top contributors to the market turnover with Rs.275mn and Rs.110mn respectively.

Further, Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings was the next top contributor to the turnover with Rs.20mn. Meanwhile, Swarnamahal Financial Services, PCH Holdings and HVA Foods were among the mostly traded stocks during the day. Foreign participation accounted for 33% of the total market activity. At the end of the trading foreign investors were net buyers with a net inflow of Rs.86mn.
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Redbulls · 2 Trading Thursday - Sri Lanka stocks down 0.78 pct Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:13 pm

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Aug 09, 2012 (LBO) – Market continued its negative trend with the All Share Price Index losing 37.99 points to close at 4,851.00 down 0.78 percent.

The Milanka index of more liquid stocks closed flat at 4,354.45. The S&P index of large cap stocks lost 14.16 points to close at 2,739.29 down 0.51 percent.

The day's turnover was 773 million rupees. JKH dominated the day's turnover with 274 million rupees and PCH Holdings contributed 253 million rupees and Sampath Bank 110 million rupees.

Dialog Axiata, the island's largest mobile phone operator contributed 17 million rupees with Commercial Bank and Tokyo Cement chipping in with 16 million rupees each.

Aitken Spence PLC slipped 1.00 rupee to close at 109.00 rupees down 0.91 percent.

Colombo Dockyard PLC lost 2.10 rupees to close at 185.10 down 1.12percent.
Commercial Bank of Ceylon lost 0.10 cents to close at 97.50 rupees while DFCC lost 0.30 cents to close at 109.70 down 0.27 percent

Dialog Axiata PLC closed flat at 6.00 rupees. HNB slipped 1.70 rupees to close at 132.00 down 1.22 percent.

JKH PLC gained 1.00 rupees to close at 185.00 up 0.54 percent.
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