{"id":109499,"date":"2020-12-08T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109499"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:49:25","slug":"sri-lankan-shares-rise-for-11th-session-as-financial-industrial-stocks-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/08\/sri-lankan-shares-rise-for-11th-session-as-financial-industrial-stocks-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan shares rise for 11th session as financial, industrial stocks gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dec 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lankan shares rose for an 11th straight session on Tuesday, riding on gains in financial and industrial stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The benchmark stock index ended up 1.39% at 6,564, its highest closing level since Feb. 23, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Trading volume on the CSE All Share Index rose to 326.2 million from 213.5 million in the previous session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Browns Investments Plc and Hatton National Bank Plc were the top boosts to the index, ending the day 10.7% and 5.4% higher, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Foreign investors were net sellers in the equity market, offloading 225.8 million Sri Lankan rupees ($1.21 million) worth of shares, according to exchange data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The Sri Lankan rupee was quoted at 186.1 against the U.S. dollar as of 11:39 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Dec 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lankan shares rose for an 11th straight session on Tuesday, riding on gains in financial and industrial stocks. * The benchmark stock index ended up 1.39% at 6,564, its highest closing level since Feb. 23, 2018. * Trading volume on the CSE All Share Index rose to 326.2 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}