Bursa Malaysia finished off the Tuesday morning trading session in bearish note with the well-weathered index FBM KLCI tanked 14.45 points or -0.97% at 1,476.02.
At 9:00 am, the main index opened lower at 1,487.82 vis-a-vis last Friday’s close of 1,490.47.
The index slid into red when at the opening and deepened its losses as when the trading bell signaled the end of morning trading session. Taking cue from the lacklustre performance of Wall Street overnight and also a catching-up of yesterday’s losses of regional peers.
During the morning trading session, the index was traded in the range of 1,475.94 – 1,487.99.
Meanwhile, on the broader market exhibited overwhelmingly negative breadth with decliners outweighed gainers 665 to 250, while 344 counters were unchanged.
Trading volume and value were registered at 3.542 billion units and RM1.629 billion respectively.
Top five active counters for the morning session My EG Services, Iris Corporation, Ta Win Holdings, Velesto Energy, Hong Seng Consolidated.
Top five gainers were Fraser & Neave, United Plantation, Heineken Malaysia, Dutch Ladu Milk Industries, Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia
Whilst top five decliners were Hextar Technologies Solutions, Nestle Malaysia, PETRONAS Dagangan, My EG Services, British-American Tobacco.
