Tuesday 25 October 2016

Colombo Stock Exchange Market Review – 24th Oct 2016


Colombo bourse slumped on week’s opening day as investors remained on the sidelines, awaiting direction from the budget. All Share index lost the way after reaching 6,449 in the opening minutes to closed at 6,418.34, down by 29.19 index points or 0.45%. Blue-chip constituent, S&P SL20 index dipped by 7.63 index points (-0.21%) to end at 3,586.96.

Ceylon Tobacco (closed at LKR 830.20, -2.0%) dragged the index down along with price depreciations in high caps namely, Sri Lanka Telecom (closed at LKR 36.30, -2.2%), Commercial Leasing & Finance (closed at LKR 3.60, -5.3%). Further, Chevron Lubricants declined by 1.8% to LKR 167.00 on the XD day.

Daily market turnover was LKR 301mn. Commercial Bank was the top contributor to the turnover with LKR 35mn followed by John Keells Holdings (LKR 34mn), Lanka Orix Leasing Company (LKR 29mn) and Sampath Bank (LKR 26mn).

Losers offset the gainers 91 to 29, while 77 scripts remained unchanged. High investor activity was witnessed in Lanka IOC and stock closed with loss of 1.5% at LKR 33.50. First Capital Holdings, John Keells Holdings, Lanka Orix Leasing Company and Hayleys Fabrics were among highly traded counters.

Meanwhile, LKR 7bn debenture issue of Commercial Bank was oversubscribed within few hours of opening for subscription today. Accordingly, the issue was closed today as per the prospectus. Lanka Walltiles declared an interim dividend of LKR 2.00 per share.

Foreign investors continued to bag stocks for the tenth consecutive session with a net foreign inflow of LKR 63mn. Foreign participation was 22%. Net foreign inflows were seen in Commercial Bank (LKR 35mn), Sampath Bank (LKR 16mn), Teejay Lanka (LKR 11mn) while net foreign outflow was mainly seen in Hatton National Bank (LKR 5mn).
Source: LSL

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