The Bourse Continues to Plunge…
The bourse continues to plunge… 6,000 5,950 The traded day concluded on an adverse sentiment and the 5,900 bourse witnessed yet another inactive trading session 5,850 5,800 directing the indices to drown further into the negative 5,750 5,700 terrain. The bourse was unable to sustain the early market- 5,650 5,600 rally where it touched the 5,700 mark, however as at the 5,550 5,500 closure the benchmark ASPI settled within the red territory . Open Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri at 5,672.64 losing 14.35 points or 0.25%; this was mainly due to the loses on counters such as LLUB (-1.09%), DIST (-1.13%) ASPI This Week ASPI Last Week and CTC (6.08%) etc. Following a similar pattern the S&P SL20 also closed within the negative territory at 3,177.17, 5,800.00 losing a minute 0.95 points or 0.03%. ASPI dropped 5,780.00 to its Six Month Low 5,672.64 5,760.00 The turnover for the day was recorded as LKR 239.30Mn, 5,740.00 indicating a drop of 50.73% against the previous trading 5,720.00 day. By accounting to more than half of the daily 5,700.00 TB rates closed aggregated turnover , John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) 5,680.00 flat, one year TB rate at 10.56% . added LKR 125.64Mn dominating the list; the counter was 5,660.00 predominantly supported by an off-board block worth LKR 5,640.00 5,620.00 92.40Mn, resulted by 440K shares being blocked at price 5,600.00 LKR 210/-.
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