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4th September, 2008
SHARE PRICES on Bursa Malaysia closed on an easier note yesterday on investors reducing their holdings in selected heavyweights, dealers said.
The benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) declined 1.61 points, or 0.15 percent, to close at 1,085.38, dragged down by losses mainly in Sime Darby and KNM.
However, last-minute bargain hunting on blue-chips like Bumiputra-Commerce helped manage to curb some of the losses.
The KLCI opened 1.83 points lower at 1,085.16. It moved between 1,082.28 and 1,086.99 throughout the day.
The Industrial Index rose 5.9 points to 2,267.75, the Finance Index added 4.95 points to 8,768.23 and the Plantation Index dropped 45.10 points to 5,597.51.
The FBMEmas dropped 31.67 points to 7,223.77, the FBM30 declined 36.58 points to 6,999.75 and the FBM2BRD decreased 25.49 points to 5,190.61.
The FBMMesdaq, however, rose 47.50 points to 4,230.22.
Losers led gainers by 278 to 224, while 245 counters were unchanged, 595 untraded and 26 suspended.
Turnover eased to 323.665 million units worth RM643.068 million from Tuesday’s 323.718 million units worth RM839.541 million.
Among the volume leaders, Iris Corporation added three sen to 13.5 sen, KNM and Sime Darby declined five sen each to RM1.52 and RM6.60 respectively, Patimas edged up half sen to 8.5 sen while AirAsia eased one sen to RM1.05.
Of the heavyweights, Maybank, Public Bank and Tenaga were unchanged at RM7.70, RM10.10 and RM7.95 respectively. Volume on the Main Board decreased to 236.185 million shares worth RM630.169 million from 270.054 million shares worth RM826.66 million previously.
Turnover on the Second Board dropped to 9.628 million units valued at RM3.778 million from 15.597 million units valued at RM7.73 million on Tuesday.
Volume on the Mesdaq Market rose to 57.788 million shares worth RM8.548 million from 21.629 million shares worth RM4.509 million.
Call warrants surged to 20.063 million units valued at RM573,050 from 16.438 million units valued at RM641,807 previously.
Direct business deals increased to 36.855 million shares worth RM13.488 million from 24.736 million shares worth RM20.567 million on Tuesday.
On a sectoral basis, consumer products accounted for 8.698 million shares traded on the Main Board, industrial products 44.559 million, construction 16.429 million, trade and services 70.43 million, technology 12.394 million, infrastructure 4.903 million, finance 21.968 million, hotels 1.61 million, properties 24.361 million, plantations 17.8 million, mining 3,000, REITs 489,700 million, closed/fund 19,000, ETF 5,000, and loans 12.516 million.
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