KUALA LUMPUR: Blue chips shut lower on Monday in the midst of a weaker more extensive business sector while the ringgit lost ground.
At 5pm, the FBM KLCI finished 1.49 focuses lower to 1,681.60. There were 314 gainers, 513 failures and 359 counters exchanged unaltered on the Bursa Malaysia. Volume remained at 1.486 billion units, worth RM1.43bil.
The ringgit was cited at 4.0452 against the US dollar.
Slow pokes in the FBM KLCI part stocks were driven by Maybank, which dragged the list around 1.6571 focuses and Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), which pulled down the file by 1.1213 focuses.
Maybank shut 10 sen lower to RM7.90 while TNB declined 12 sen to RM14.78.
Driving the top gainers, Dutch Lady rose 86 sen to RM58.56, Khind expanded 43 sen to RM2.77 and DKSH increased aggregated 36 sen to RM5.82.
English American Tobacco and Nestle finished the day among the top failures, declining 62 sen to RM49.76 and 50 sen to RM78.50 individually.
Spot gold was up 0.16% to US$1,319.05 per ounce.
Brent unrefined was last exchanged at US$49.17 per barrel while US rough exchanged at US$46.93 per barrel.
Among the key local markets,
Japan's Nikkei 225 up 2.3% to 16,737.49;
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down 0.38%to 22,821.34;
CSI 300 rose 0.02% to 3,307.78;
Taiwan's Taiex shed 0.24% to 9,110.17;
South Korea's Kospi facilitated 0.25% to 2,032.35 and
Singapore's Straits Times Index declined 0.99% to 2,829.43.
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