CSE up 3.7% during week

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The Colombo stock market yesterday ended a strong week in red. During the week, the ASPI was up 3.7% and the S&P SL20 gained 4.1%.

Yesterday, the ASPI ended down 0.6% or 133.22 points at 22,024.18 and the S&P SL20 was down 1.13% or 71.85 points at 6,293.72. Turnover was over Rs. 3.2 billion on over 100 million shares traded.

Asia Securities Research said market weakness was primarily driven by losses in BIL, RIL, DFCC, DOCK, ACL and WIND. Turnover was mainly driven by DIPD (Rs. 562 million), followed by AEL (Rs. 249 million), COMB (Rs. 245 million), SIRA (Rs. 217 million) and DIAL (Rs. 155 million). HNB, RICH, LOLC, and SAMP were the top negative contributors to the ASPI. Market breadth turned negative, with 174 counters declining against 67 positive contributors.