KUALA LUMPUR: Despite opening higher at the start of the opening bell, the FBM KLCI succumbed to mild profit taking activities on Thursday.
The benchmark index closed down 2.6 points, or 0.18% at 1,453.29.
Losers outnumbered gainers 533 to 417 on trade of 3.7 billion shares worth RM2.08bil on the broader market.
At Bursa Malaysia, Rapid slid 50 sen to RM27.40, Batu Kawan fell 30 sen to RM20.20, Coastal Contracts
lost 19 sen to RM1.75 and Chin Hin declined 15 sen to RM3.83.
Among the losers, Allianz rose 28 sen to RM17.88, F&N gained 28 sen to RM27.28, Nestle added 20 sen to RM121.60 and Sam Engineering advanced 14 sen to RM4.35.
Among the banks, Maybank declined one sen to RM9.09, AmBank added six sen to RM4, CIMB fell three sen to RM5.74 and Hong Leong Bank gave up six sen to RM19.14.
Public Bank and RHB Bank closed unchanged at RM4.27 and RM5.60 respectively.
On the forex market, the ringgit was up 0.06% against the greenback to 4.6798. The local unit was down 0.11% against the pound sterling to 5.8534 and up 0.19% against the Singapore dollar to 3.4933.
Elsewhere in the region, Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.29%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index closed up 1%, South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.13% and China’s composite index ended up 0.6%.
