KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia opened lower today on profit-taking activities, dealers said.

At 9.23am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 7.05 points lower at 1,882.92 after opening 0.63 of a point easier at 1,889.34.

A dealer said profit-taking emerged as investors were cashing in after yesterday’s gains, which saw the benchmark index rise in the last minutes of trading.

On the scoreboard, the Finance Index fell 56.84 points to 17,174.34, the Plantation Index declined 23.88 points to 9,244.4 and the Industrial Index erased 18.78 points to 3,237.67.

The FBM Emas Index contracted 34.01 points to 13,049.33, the FBMT100 Index eased 36.25 points to 12,678.67, the FBM Ace contracted 11.19 points to 6,707.08 while the FBM 70 increased 2.739 points to 14,213.47.

Market breadth was positive as gainers outpaced losers 161 to 141, while 210 counters were unchanged, 1,118 untraded and 39 others were suspended.

Turnover stood at 162.78 million shares worth RM68.41 million.

Among actives, 1Utopia edged down half-a-sen to six sen while SKP Resources gained one sen to 53.5 sen. Mexter Technology, MAS and Titijaya Land were flat at 11.5 sen, 20.5 sen and RM2.50 respectively.

Heavyweights Maybank added one sen to RM9.84, Public Bank lost 36 sen to RM19.54 while TNB, CIMB and Axiata were all flat at RM12.22, RM7.32 and RM6.98 respectively. — Bernama