Sri Lanka stocks close up; ASPI gains 0.20-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Tuesday, CSE data showed, with the benchmark All Share Price Index moving up 0.20 percent.

The ASPI was up 40.09 points at 20,119.64, while the more liquid S&P SL20 was up 0.36 percent, or 20.71 points, at 5,722.57.

Positive contributors to the ASPI were Dialog Axiata (up 1.39 percent at 43.90 rupees), Overseas Realty (Ceylon) (up 1.67 percent at 48.60 rupees), Hayleys (up 0.57 percent at 219.25 rupees), Softlogic Capital (up 7.87 percent at 9.60 rupees), and Haycarb (up 2.35 percent at 206.75 rupees).

Carson Cumberbatch (down 4.42 percent at 654.50 rupees), Citizens Development Business Finance (down 7.34 percent at 30.30 rupees), Ambeon Holdings (down 4.35 percent at 33.00 rupees), LOLC Holdings (down 1.25 percent at 375.00 rupees), and Access Engineering (down 1.95 percent at 75.30 rupees) were top negative contributors.

Market turnover was 1.52 billion rupees. The S&P/CSE Transportation Industry Group Index led turnover with 250.55 million rupees.

“There was a crossing in Overseas Realty of 182 million rupees and a small crossing for John Keells of 36 million rupees,” Raynal Wickremeratne, Head of Research and Strategy at NDB Securities, said. “There was also some good momentum with PickMe, where 245 million rupees got traded,”

Meanwhile, visitor numbers into Sri Lanka rose 2.1 percent in October 2026 compared to a year ago, official data showed. Total arrivals were 168,625 compared to 165,193 in the same month last year. India continued to be the top source market with 62,211 visitors, making up 37 percent of total arrivals, followed by 12,402 visitors from the UK and 11,190 from China. There have been 1,862,304 visitors to the island so far this year. (Colombo/Nov03/2026)