{"id":141561,"date":"2024-04-25T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141561"},"modified":"2024-04-25T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:13:42","slug":"sri-lankan-shares-end-higher-as-financials-industrials-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/04\/25\/sri-lankan-shares-end-higher-as-financials-industrials-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan shares end higher as financials, industrials gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy CNA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>ENGALURU : Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Thursday, driven by gains in financial and industrial stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The CSE All Share index settled 1.4 per cent higher at 12,075.98, gaining for three straight sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* LOLC Holdings and John Keells Holdings were the top gainers on the CSE All Share, rising 5.6 per cent and 2.4 per cent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Trading volume on the index fell to 141.70 million shares from 207.60 million shares in the previous session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The equity market&#8217;s turnover rose to 2.91 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($9.8 million) from 2.51 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Foreign investors were net sellers, offloading stocks worth 299 million rupees, while domestic investors were net buyers, purchasing shares worth 2.62 billion rupees, the data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* For a report on global markets, click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>($1 = 296.8000 Sri Lankan rupees)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy CNA ENGALURU : Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Thursday, driven by gains in financial and industrial stocks. * The CSE All Share index settled 1.4 per cent higher at 12,075.98, gaining for three straight sessions. * LOLC Holdings and John Keells Holdings were the top gainers on the CSE All Share, rising 5.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141561","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=141561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}