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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia were mixed to lower at the close today with modest gains in several key bluechips pushing the benchmark index just above water.
At 5pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was 0.91 of a point higher at 1,184.88.
The Finance Index fell 19.37 to 9,689.03, the Plantation Index decreased 22.04 points to 5,751.48 and the Industrial Index was 0.06 of a point lower at 2,610.85.
The FBMEmas Index declined 3.85 points to 8,020.99 but the FBM Top 100 added 0.70 of a point to 7,789.75 and the FBM ACE Index was 35.63 points higher at 4,244.55.
Decliners outnumbered advancers by 388 to 276 while 232 counters were unchanged and 363 untraded.
Total market turnover decreased to 1.010 billion shares from 1.025 billion but the value rose to RM1.659 billion from RM1.541 billion yesterday.
Axiata, one of Asia's largest telecomunication companies, was the second most active stock with 37.811 million shares changing hands. It rose 13 sen to RM3.06.
The most active was KNM Group which lost two sen to 83.5 sen on 46.985 million shares traded.
Others on the active list included SAAG Consolidated which fell by 1.5 sen to 26 sen, Jotech which was flat at 9.5 sen and finance heavyweight Bumiputra-Commerce which gained two sen to RM10.66.
Conglomerate Sime Darby lost five sen to RM8.26, Malaysia’s largest bank Maybank fell one sen to RM6.84 and power giant Tenaga Nasional was flat at RM8.15.
Public Bank which rose a sen to RM9.96 also helped put the FBM KLCI in the a positive territory. Public Bank, Axiata and Bumiputra-Commerce have a combined weighted of 16.348 per cent in the FBM KLCI basket.
Volume on the Main Market fell to 827.170 million shares valued at RM1.620 billion from 926.704 million shares valued at RM1.521 billion.
The ACE Market turnover declined to 61.127 million shares worth RM12.985 million from 74.909 million shares worth RM12.452 million.
Warrants rose to 118.542 million shares valued at RM24.356 million from 19.143 million shares worth RM5.346 million.
Consumer products accounted for 47.844 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products 201.499 million, construction 63.993 million, trade/services 301.964 million, technology 13.758 million, infrastructure 16.322 million, finance 81.999 million, hotels 7.551 million, properties 72.452 million, plantations 17.454 million, mining 45,900, REITs 2.134 million, and closed/fund 149,300. – Bernama
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