{"id":250,"date":"2026-10-28T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/sri-lanka-stocks-close-up-aspi-gains-1-41-pct-turnover-at-rs2-17bn\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:04:36","slug":"sri-lanka-stocks-close-up-aspi-gains-1-41-pct-turnover-at-rs2-17bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/sri-lanka-stocks-close-up-aspi-gains-1-41-pct-turnover-at-rs2-17bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka stocks close up; ASPI gains 1.41-pct, turnover at Rs2.17bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Wednesday, CSE data showed, with the benchmark All Share Price Index moving up 1.41 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The ASPI was up 277.55 points at 19,970.22, while the more liquid S&amp;P SL20 was up 1.55 percent, or 86.99 points, at 5,699.30.<\/p>\n<p>Positive contributors to the ASPI were Commercial Bank of Ceylon (up 1.79 percent at 199.00 rupees), Dialog Axiata (up 3.08 percent at 43.50 rupees), Hatton National Bank (up 1.97 percent at 374.75 rupees), Hemas Holdings (up 3.00 percent at 30.90 rupees), and Hayleys (up 1.27 percent at 218.75 rupees).<\/p>\n<p>Capital Alliance (down 5.00 percent at 39.90 rupees), John Keells Holdings (down 0.56 percent at 17.80 rupees), Teejay Lanka (down 2.46 percent at 27.80 rupees), C. W. Mackie (down 3.49 percent at 33.20 rupees), and Trans Asia Hotels (down 6.79 percent at 41.20 rupees) were top negative contributors.<\/p>\n<p>Market turnover was 2.17 billion rupees. Telecommunication Services led turnover with 851.48 million rupees.<\/p>\n<p>Crossings were recorded in Melstacorp (1,350,000 shares at 176.00 rupees), LB Finance (320,000 shares at 138.00 rupees), and Hemas Holdings (1,000,000 shares at 30.00 rupees) with a total volume of 2.67 million shares, said Dewangi De Silva, Assistant Manager \u2013 Research at NDB Securities. (Colombo\/Oct28\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Wednesday, CSE data showed, with the benchmark All Share Price Index moving up 1.41 percent. The ASPI was up 277.55 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}