LOLC Securities Market Watch: Weekly 25 September 2015

Melissa Pereira on Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:47 pm

Bourse closed the week with a bearish investor sentiment while the significant depreciation of LKR against USD and uncertainty hovering the world markets were major topics of the week. However during the week investor interest was seen pertaining to poultry stocks. Highest turnover was recorded on Friday while foreign investors were net buyers for most of the days of the week.

Bank Finance and Insurance and Beverage Food and Tobacco sectors contributed mostly to the market turnover while Stores and Supplies sector became the highest gainer (+2.43%). JKH, BLI and LOLC lifted up the ASPI by 13.62 points while CTC dragged down the index by around 4.02 points. ASPI and S&P SL20 up by 3
points and 1 points respectively.

Rupee depreciated during the week and closed at LKR 140.98 per USD. One year T-bill rate increased and closed at 7.18%. Gold prices increased to close at 1,143.8$/Oz while oil prices increased slightly to close at 45.14$/Barrel.

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