LOLC Securities Market Watch: Daily 12 August 2015

Melissa Pereira Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:05 am

Focus: During the day, ASPI was up by 13 points and S&P SL20 was down by 1 points. Market recorded a turnover worth of LKR 2.1 Bn with big cap counters such as NEST, DIAL and CTHR contributed 18.64 points to lift the ASPI index up. COMB became the highest contributor to the turnover while also recording a single crossing at LKR 173 and contributing total of LKR 593.2 Mn to the market turnover. HDFC, NEST, and JKH also recorded crossings while total crossings contributed only 10% to the turnover. Foreign investors remained as net sellers recording a net foreign outflow of LKR 684 Mn with net foreign selling mainly seen in COMB and BFL. Today's foreign buying was seen in TJL, HDFC and SAMP. Meanwhile ASPI started the day at 7459 level and showed a flat trend to end the market operations at 7470 level.

§ Bank Finance & Insurance sector contributed mostly to the market turnover while the sector index was up by 0.03%.

§ Foreign investors were in a selling sentiment, while the net foreign outflows amounted to LKR 684 Mn.

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