KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia continued to trend higher at mid-morning today as strong retail interest in lower liners and small caps helped buoy the broader market, dealers said.
A dealer said while profit taking was seen in key heavyweights, a strong buying momentum, helped boost rotational trading on lower liners.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index rose 13.98 points to 17,101.22, and the Plantation Index perked 26.14 points to 8,361.14,while the Industrial Index lost 1.56 points to 3,030.4.
The FBM Emas Index gained 6.609 points to 12,530.1, the FBMT100 Index climbed 5.141 points to 12,253.65, and the FBM Ace Index increased 4.41 points to 5,421.55.
The FBM70 Index lost 37.8 points to 14,391.72.
Gainers outpaced losers 296 to 287, with 269 counters unchanged, 721 untraded and 11 others suspended.
Volume stood at 873.56 million shares worth RM533.5 million.
Among actives, The Media Shoppe and DVM Technology climbed half-a-sen each to 11 sen and eight sen respectively, Astral Supreme gained three sen to 30 sen, and Sona Petroleum added 1.5 sen to 46 sen.
MAS slipped half-a-sen to 33.5 sen.
Of the heavyweights, CIMB chalked-up 11 sen to RM8.20, and Sime Darby earned one sen to RM9.49.
Maybank lost six sen to RM10.44, Axiata dropped three sen to RM6.90, and Petronas Chemicals slipped one sen to RM6.61. – Bernama
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