{"id":3496,"date":"2024-05-14T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:54:28","slug":"colombo-bourse-falls-as-uncertainty-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/colombo-bourse-falls-as-uncertainty-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Bourse falls as uncertainty mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Colombo bourse extended the bearish momentum for the second consecutive day with the All Share Price Index (ASPI) closing at 12,359 losing 140 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;This decline was particularly influenced by the selling pressure observed on the Banking sector counters like COMB and HNB, as well as index heavyweights such as JKH and LOLC,&#8221; First Capital Research said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, there was notable buying interest in CTC and Chevron Lubricants, driven by the recently disclosed earnings reports indicating a substantial upsurge in both revenue and earnings.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the turnover witnessed a significant increase during the day, totaling Rs.3.3Bn making a 32.7% increase from the monthly average of Rs.2.5Bn. This uptick was attributed to active participation from both retail investors and High net worth investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Capital Goods sector led turnover at 39%, followed by the Banking and Food, Beverage, and Tobacco sectors jointly contributing to 31% of overall turnover. Additionally, interest in the Construction sector was also observed. Foreign investors remained net sellers, recording a net outflow of Rs.587.8Mn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo bourse extended the bearish momentum for the second consecutive day with the All&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[484],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}