ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Colombo Stock Exchange closed flat on Tuesday, CSE data showed, with the benchmark All Share Price Index moving up a marginal 0.03 percent.<\/p>\n
The ASPI was up 5.97 points at 20,650.23, while the more liquid S&P SL20 was down 0.05 percent, or 2.74 points, at 5,844.28.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarket was slightly up,\u201d Raynal Wickremeratne, Head of Research and Strategy at NDB Securities, said. \u201cWe saw about a billion in turnover which again is not fantastic, but it\u2019s better than some of the days that we\u2019ve had before.\u201d <\/p>\n
He noted that crossings took place in Citizens Development Business Finance (CDB), Commercial Bank, Ceylon Cold Stores (CCS), and plantation stocks.<\/p>\n
Positive contributors to the ASPI were Ambeon Holdings (up 8.05 percent at 34.90 rupees), Ceylinco Holdings (up 1.60 percent at 2,898.50 rupees), LOLC Finance (up 2.00 percent at 5.10 rupees), and PGP Glass Ceylon (up 1.45 percent at 56.10 rupees).<\/p>\n
Hatton National Bank (down 0.39 percent at 380.50 rupees), Asiri Surgical Hospital (down 21.88 percent at 10.00 rupees), Haycarb (down 1.69 percent at 203.50 rupees), and Overseas Realty (Ceylon) (down 0.97 percent at 51.00 rupees) were top negative contributors.<\/p>\n
Market turnover was 1.06 billion rupees. The Food, Beverage & Tobacco industry group led turnover with 243.40 million rupees.<\/p>\n
Renuka Agri Foods announced that 6,117,161 Ordinary Voting Shares of the company have been listed with effect from October 6, 2026, pursuant to a scrip dividend in the proportion of 1: 130.58824265. (Colombo\/Oct6\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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