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Bursa ends higher on bargain hunting

BursaMalaysia Bursa ends higher on bargain hunting

BURSA closed higher as nas Chemicals Group Bhd added one bargain hunting continued throughout sen to RM8.04, Bhd yesterday's trading session in almost added 10 sen to RM9.72 and CIMB all sectors across the board led by Group Holdings Bhd gained one sen to healthcare. RM4.54. At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa As for most active counters, Serba Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose 0.56% Dinamik Holdings Bhd improved 4.5 or 8.5 points to 1,520.82 from Wednes­ sen to 45.5 sen, followed by LKL and day's close of 1,512.32. Careplus. The market bellwether opened 0.25 Pasukhas Group Bhd, however, shed of-a-point better at 1,512.57 and moved 3.5 sen to 19.5 sen, while Main Market between 1,511.60 and 1,523.98 through­ debutant Yenher Holdings Bhd fell five out the day. sen to 90 sen. On the broader market, gainers On the index board, the FBM Emas surpassed losers 612 to 348, while 499 Index increased 64.79 points to 11,093.28, counters were unchanged, 769 untra­ the FBM T100 Index was 59.23 points ded and 18 others suspended. higher at 10,803.83 and the FBM Emas Turnover advanced to 5.08 billion Shariah Index soared 93.68 points to units worth RM3.49 billion from 12,169.76. Wednesday/s 4.37 billion units valued The FBM ACE leapt 97.7 points to at RM2.99 billion. Z202.85 and the FBM 70 rose 74.65 An analyst said the lower movement points to 14,433.23. of the key index which hovered below Sector-wise, the Financial Services the support level of 1,520 in earlier ses­ Index edged up 9.08 points to 14,893.18, sion, prompted interest from institu­ the Industrial Products and Services tional investors to buy on weakness Index added 1.2 points to 188.03, but the especially in the bluechip stocks. Plantation Index was 65.01 points lower “While this presented an opportu­ at 6,152.32. nity for investors to fortify their hold­ Main Market volume expanded to 3.3 ings and help to stabilise the market, billion shares valued at RM2.65 billion the interest in healthcare accelerated from 2.5 billion shares worth RM2.39 following a steep rise in the daily billion on Wednesday. Covid-19 infections/' she told Bernama. Volume on the ACE Market narrowed The daily number of Covid-19 infec­ to 1.51 billion shares worth RM813.29 tions in Malaysia recorded the highest million against Wednesday/s 1.64 bil­ since the pandemic hit the country at lion shares worth RM573.71 million. 13,215 cases yesterday, said Health DG Consumer products and services Tan Sri Dr . accounted for 601.57 million shares IHH Healthcare Bhd advanced six traded on the Main Market, industrial sen to RM5.70, Top Glove Corp Bhd products and services (1.06 billion), con­ surged 28 sen to RM4.04, Hartalega struction (131.11 million), technology Holdings Bhd jumped 38 sen to RM7.64, (373.72 million), SPAC (nil), financial LKL International Bhd was up four sen services (43.64 million), property (204.06 to 31.5 sen and Careplus Group Bhd million), plantation (20.57 million), perked 23 sen to RM1.99. REITs (4.76 million), closed/fund (7000), Other heavyweights, Malayan Bank­ energy (590.18 million), healthcare ing Bhd was flat at RM8.05, Public Bank (195.64 million), telecommunications Bhd dropped two sen to RM4.05, Petro­ and media (19.72 million). — Bernama