LOLC Securities Market Watch: Weekly 3 July 2015

Melissa Pereira Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:03 pm

Bourse closed the weekly operations on a positive note following two consecutive lackluster trading days. Highest turnover was reported on Friday for the week due to hefty crossings took place in TJL. Further JKH, started trading on Friday after three days of dealing suspension due to the subdivision of shares. Foreign investors were net sellers for most of the days of the week.

Twenty Four crossings were recorded during the week while TJL accounted for sixteen out of them.

Bank, Finance and Insurance sector contributed mostly to the market turnover while construction sector became the highest gainer(+2.61%).

JKH, AEL and DIAL lifted up the ASPI by 15.62 points while HNB dragged down the index by around 3.47 points. ASPI down by 9.15 points and S&P SL20 up by 14.39
points respectively.

Rupee depreciated during the week, and closed at LKR 133.92 per USD. One year T-bill rate closed flat at 6.35%. Gold prices depreciated and closed at 1,168.05$/Oz while oil prices depreciated to close at 56.57$/Barrel.

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