KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Bursa Malaysia finished on a mixed note today due to continued selling, especially by the foreign players, dealers said.

At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 5.13 points to 1,628.80, after moving between 1,620.58 and 1,634.89 throughout the day.

Market breadth was, however, positive with gainers led losers by 397 to 364, while 322 counters were unchanged, 716 untraded and 17 others suspended.

Volume dropped to 1.34 billion shares valued at RM1.70 versus 1.52 billion shares valued at RM1.82 billion yesterday.

A dealer said Asian stocks, including the local bourse, were lower as most of the investors were cautious ahead of the release of US jobs data later today.

Of the heavyweights, Public Bank rose 14 sen to RM17.80 and Axiata was two sen higher at RM5.80.

Maybank fell 10 sen to RM8.45 and TNB eased two sen to RM12.06.

Among the actives, Aemulus and The Media Shoppe were half-a-sen better to 55.5 sen and 11 sen, respectively, Managepay Systems rose one sen to 25.5 sen and AirAsia was flat at RM1.26.

On the scoreboard, the FBM 70 improved 10.65 points to 12,295.93 and the FBM Emas Shariah Index went up 15.67 points to 11,951.63.

The FBM Ace fell 16.47points to 5,547.15, FBM Emas Index declined 22.04 points to 11,251.20 and the FBMT100 Index eased 24.26 points to 10,967.31.

Sectoral-wise, the Finance Index fell 31.28 points to 13,944.41, Industrial Index eased 2.54 points to 3,187.71 and the Plantation Index lost 52 points to 7,303.17.

Main Market volume fell to 771.98 million units worth RM1.56 billion versus 843.75 million units worth RM1.65 billion yesterday.

Turnover on the ACE Market declined to 234.31 million shares valued at RM71.75 million against 339.96 million shares valued at RM109.60 million.

Warrants went down to 327.56 million units worth RM66.63 million from  331.12 million units worth RM109.60 million.

Consumer products accounted for 46.10 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (147.54 million), construction (45.35 million), trade and services (292.68 million), technology (37.83 million), infrastructure (17.24 million), SPAC (5.47 million), finance (50.87 million), hotel (985.300 million), properties (97.93 million), plantations (24.93 million), mining (26,700), REITs (4.97 million) and closed/fund (29,000). — Bernama