ECONOMYNEXT – Colombo Dockyard regained a bit of positive momentum pushing the Colombo Stock Exchange All Share Price Index (ASPI) to close 0.13 percent higher on Tuesday, data on its site showed.
The broader ASPI rose 28.80 points to close at 21,927.00 while the more liquid S&P SL20 was marginally down by 0.05 percent, or 3.05 points from Monday at 6,011.31.
Besides Colombo Dockyard (up 20 rupees at 127.00 rupees), Richard Pieris & Company (up 1.40 rupees at 40 rupees), Sampath Bank (up 75 cents at 141.75 rupees), John Keells (up 10 cents at 21 rupees), and Cargills (Ceylon) (up 6.72 rupees at 768 rupees) pushed the ASPI higher.
Positive sentiment surrounding construction and its related shares was seen on Tuesday after news that Cyclone Ditwah had caused destruction of around 4.1 billion US dollars.
Tokyo Cement company (Lanka) – non voting share was up by 50 cents at 92.50 rupees, Sierra Cables closed 10 cents up at 31.60 rupees and Lanka Ceramics traded 4 rupees higher at 175 rupees.
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Market turnover dropped to 2.5 billion rupees from previous session’s 2.7 billion rupees.
Share volume was 102,284,356 with 23,953 trades recorded in the session.
CSE recorded 68.58 million rupees in net foreign outflow. John Keells recorded an outflow of 143.3 billion rupees, while Hemas Holdings had an outflow of 34 million rupees on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, equity markets ended yet another session on a mixed note.
Foreign investors have acquired 644 million US dollars’ worth of Indian stocks in two months, The Economic Times said.
India’s Nifty 50 was trading 0.018 percent higher at 26,177.15 while the Sensex index was 0.050 percent weaker at 85,524.84.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index ended a session of directionless trading closing 0.02 percent higher at 50,412.87, Japan’s Mainichi newspaper said.
“The Nikkei index was directionless, weighed down by selling of exporter shares on the yen’s appreciation, which decreases exporters’ overseas’ profits when repatriated,” Mainichi newspaper said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Karachi Stock Exchange 100 index dipped 0.08 percent to 171,073.73.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index ended 0.11 percent lower at 25,774.14.
Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 0.62 percent or 28.680 points to close at 4,638.970.
As at 4.15 pm Sri Lankan time, spot gold was trading at 4,486.42 US dollars, up 1.21 percent. (Colombo/Dec23/2025)
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