KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — Bursa Malaysia remained lower accross the board at mid-morning, dragged down by losses mostly seen in the bluechip counters, dealers said.
CIMB and IHH Healthcare dragged down the composite index by a total of 6.244 points.
The weakness on the local bourse was also in tandem with regional stock markets, weighed by jitters over a possible US-led military strike against the Syrian government.
Regionally, Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 93.91 points to 13,542.37, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 130.55 points to 21,874.77, and Singapore’s Straits Times Index declined 50.39 points to 3,034.02.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index fell 244.12 points to 15,786.28, the Industrial Index was 41.65 points lower at 2,805.21 and the Plantation Index erased 143.04 points to 7,999.58.
The FBM Emas Index lost 189.11 points to 11,594.51, the FBMT100 Index decreased 179.46 points to 11,372.7, the FBM70 Index dropped 318.05 points to 13,024.31 and the FBM Ace Index gave up 179.6 points to 4,780.07.
Market breadth was negative with losers trouncing gainers by 754 to 68, with 165 counters unchanged, 603 untraded and 36 others suspended.
Volume stood at 926.406 million shares valued at RM977.85 million.
Among actives, MAS, Daya Materials, and Luster Industries were all flat at 31 sen, 28.5 sen and nine sen respectively, but Instacom Group slipped 6.5 sen to 29.5 sen.
Among heavyweights, Maybank lost 14 sen to RM9.72 and CIMB gave up 23 sen to RM7.15, while both Sime Darby and Maxis fell nine sen each to RM9.21 and RM6.77, respectively.
However, Axiata Group rose four sen to RM6.52. – Bernama
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