{"id":146001,"date":"2024-11-22T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=146001"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:11:13","slug":"sri-lankan-shares-closed-lower-on-thursday-dragged-by-real-estate-and-industrial-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/22\/sri-lankan-shares-closed-lower-on-thursday-dragged-by-real-estate-and-industrial-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan shares closed lower on Thursday, dragged by real estate and industrial stocks."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Business Recorder<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The CSE All-Share index settled 1% lower at 12,982.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer price inflation reached minus 0.7% year-on-year in October after easing to minus 0.2% in September, official data showed on Thursday, as the island nation continued its economic rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change was largely driven by a slowing in non-food price inflation that dipped to minus 2.3% in October from minus 0.7% in September, the Department of Census and Statistics said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40333112\/sri-lankan-shares-rise-as-president-reappoints-prime-minister-keeps-finance-minister-role\">Sri Lankan shares rise as president reappoints prime minister, keeps finance minister role<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukit Darah Plc and eChannelling Plc were the top losers on the index, down 7.8% each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trading volume on the index rose to 161.4 million shares from 137.6 million shares in the previous session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The equity market\u2019s turnover rose to 7.04 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($24.20 million) from 2.73 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign investors were net sellers, offloading stocks worth 341 million rupees, while domestic investors were net buyers, purchasing shares worth 6.91 billion rupees, the data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Business Recorder The CSE All-Share index settled 1% lower at 12,982.10. Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer price inflation reached minus 0.7% year-on-year in October after easing to minus 0.2% in September, official data showed on Thursday, as the island nation continued its economic rebound. The change was largely driven by a slowing in non-food price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146001","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=146001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}