Sri Lanka stocks trend up; ASPI passes 21,000

ECONOMTNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange opened higher on Monday, CSE data showed, with the benchmark All Share Price Index moving up 0.15 percent.

The ASPI was up 30.69 points at 21,068.04, while the more liquid S&P SL20 was up 0.15 percent, or 8.69 points, at 5,949.41.

Positive contributors to the ASPI were LOLC Finance (up 1.92 percent at 5.30 rupees), Hayleys (up 0.89 percent at 227.00 rupees), Dialog Axiata (up 0.43 percent at 46.60 rupees), and Commercial Bank (up 0.25 percent at 204.50 rupees).

SMB Finance (down 9.09 percent at 1.00 rupee), Melstacorp (down 0.41 percent at 183.25 rupees), and Hemas Holdings (down 0.32 percent at 30.90 rupees) were top negative contributors.

Market turnover was 57.56 million rupees.

Diversified financials led turnover with 7.61 million rupees, followed by banks with 7.03 million rupees.

Vidullanka PLC said project companies in which it holds equity have submitted winning bids to establish 18.7 MW/93 MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) integrated with existing ground-mounted solar power plants.

The company’s estimated share of equity investment across the four projects is around 600 million rupees. (Colombo/Sep28/2026)