Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Wednesday, recovering from Tuesday’s largest single-day point drop amidst the war in the Middle East.
The ASPI closed up 0.60 percent, or 134.03, at 22,577.41.
The S&P SL20 closed up 0.70 percent, or 44.01 points at 6,357.66.
Sampath Bank (up 1.95 percent at Rs.157.00), Commercial Bank (up 1.67 percent at Rs.213.50), C T Holdings (up 4.33 percent at Rs.626.25) were top positive contributors to the ASPI.
Senkadagala Finance (down 24.98 percent at Rs.563.00) was the top negative contributor to the ASPI.
The market turnover was 4.68 billion rupees. Most of this came from capital goods (1.51 billion rupees).
Senkadagala Finance listed 4,313,992 ordinary voting shares. The stock closed down 24.98 percent at 626.25 rupees.
source: Economy Next
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