KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI ended at an intra-day high on Friday, in line with the performance of its regional peers.
At 5 pm, the 30-stock index was up 5.15 points, or 0.32% to 1,590.09, its intraday high. The FBM KLCI finished down a negligible 0.28 of a point for the week.
All indices on Bursa Malaysia ended higher, except for the Bursa Malaysia Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Index.
There were 673 gainers, 373 losers and 488 counters traded unchanged on the Bursa Malaysia. About 4.3 billion shares, valued at RM3.1bil, changed hands.
Dutch Lady
, the top gainer on Bursa Malaysia, jumped 68 sen to RM36.18. Malaysian Pacific Industries rose 54 sen to RM39.42, United Plantations gained 30 sen to RM24.50 and Ajinomoto added 26 sen to RM15.50.
Ge-Shen slid 17 sen to RM3.23, Heineken fell 16 sen to RM22.04, Tenaga Nasional lost 16 sen to RM13.78 and PETRONAS Gas declined 16 sen to RM17.82.
Among the actives, Borneo Oil jumped 100%, or 0.5 sen to one sen with 224.62 million shares traded while Nova MSC climbed two sen to 21.5 sen with 86.52 million shares done.
Stock market data showed that foreign investors sold a net RM266mil on Thursday. Local institutions and retailers were net buyers, with RM203mil and RM62mil, respectively.
On the forex market, the ringgit was up 0.02% against the greenback to 4.7183.
The local currency has depreciated by 0.09% against the pound sterling, now at 5.9613, and by 0.03% against the Singapore dollar at 3.4766.
Meanwhile, US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 52 cents to US$82.26 and Brent added 40 cents to US$86.79 per barrel.
Among the key regional markets:
Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed up 0.61% to 39,583.08;
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 0.01% to 17,718.61;
Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.73% to 2,967.40;
Taiwan’s Taiex added 0.55% to 23,032.25;
South Korea’s Kospi closed up 0.49% to 2,797.82 and;
Singapore’s Straits Times Index fell 0.28% to 3,333.92 points.
