KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia rebounded from yesterday’s losses to open marginally higher this morning, lifted by buying support for selected bluechips and heavyweights, a dealer said.

At 9.11am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 3.6 points better at 1,872.24 points.

On the scoreboard, the Finance Index rose 36.6 points to 17,480.08, the Plantation Index increased 37.88 points to 9,043.77 but the Industrial Index eased 2.39 points to 3,209.83.

The FBM Emas Index perked 24.92 points to 13,066.82, FBMT100 Index improved 22.23 points to 12,648.34, FBM Ace advanced 14.57 points to 6,928.37 and the FBM 70 expanded 17.08 points to 14,339.67.

Gainers outpaced losers 170 to 92 with 1,388 counters unchanged.

Turnover stood at 127.96 million shares worth RM62.09 million.

Among actives, Sumatec shed half-a-sen to 41.5 sen while Minetec was unchanged at 15 sen.

Of heavyweights, TNB rose eight sen to RM12.38, CIMB added three sen to RM6.99, while Maybank and Axiata were both unchanged at RM9.91 and RM6.87, respectively. — Bernama