{"id":111766,"date":"2021-02-17T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111766"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:01:58","slug":"sri-lankan-shares-end-higher-as-industrial-material-stocks-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/17\/sri-lankan-shares-end-higher-as-industrial-material-stocks-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan shares end higher as industrial, material stocks gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Reuters<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Feb 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lankan shares reversed from steep early losses to settle higher on Wednesday as industrial and material stocks advanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The benchmark stock index ended 0.10% higher at 7,588.34, having slumped as much as 2.57% earlier. The index has shed 5.1% over the last two sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Activated carbon manufacturer Haycarb advanced 16.4% to be the biggest boost to the index, followed by a 5% gain in conglomerate ExpoLanka Holdings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Trading volume on the CSE All Share Index fell to 113.7 million, from 117.4 million in the previous session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Foreign investors were net sellers, off-loading 201.1 million Sri Lankan rupees ($1.03 million) worth of shares, according to exchange data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Equity market turnover was 3.31 billion Sri Lankan rupees, data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The Sri Lankan rupee was last quoted at 195.50 against the U.S. dollar, as of 1106 GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* For a report on global markets, click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* For a report on major currencies, click (Reporting by Philip George in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Soni)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Reuters Feb 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lankan shares reversed from steep early losses to settle higher on Wednesday as industrial and material stocks advanced. * The benchmark stock index ended 0.10% higher at 7,588.34, having slumped as much as 2.57% earlier. The index has shed 5.1% over the last two sessions. * Activated carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111766","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=111766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}