KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 ― Shares on Bursa Malaysia were lower at the end of the morning session today amid weak regional sentiment and following overnight losses on Wall Street, dealers said.

At lunch break, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 9.83 points lower at 1,853.07, after opening 1.87 of a point easier at 1,861.03.

The benchmark index hovered between 1,851.87 and 1,861.19 in the trading session.

Public Bank Bhd-Foreign led decliners in falling 42 sen to RM19.88, while Public Bank dropped 28 sen for RM20.00 and Aeon dipped 26 sen to RM15.48.

Among actives, Symphony House rose one sen to 28 sen, Asian Pac added 1.5 sen to 26.5 sen and KNM-WA dropped half a sen to 35 sen.   

As for the heavyweights, Maybank slipped one sen to RM9.77, Tenaga rose 10 sen to RM11.78 and CIMB lost seven sen to RM7.43.

On the scoreboard, the Industrial Index fell 1.52 points to 3,177.04, the Plantation Index shed 21.44 points to 8,911.68, and the Finance Index lost 107.07 points to 16,894.01.

The FBM Emas Index declined 57.43 points to 12,827.62, the FBMT100 Index decreased 57.49 points to 12,481.22, and the FBM 70 fell 30.31 points to 14,006.41, but the FBM Ace improved 5.42 points to 6,789.62.

The gainer-to-loser ratio was 406 to 275, while 312 counters were unchanged, 616 untraded and 14 others suspended.

Turnover stood at 1.004 billion shares worth RM849.35 million. ― Bernama