KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 ― Share prices on Bursa Malaysia maintained their uptrend at mid-afternoon today on continuous buying support for selected blue-chips led by finance, trade and services counters, dealers said.

At 3.01pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) stood at 1,640.49, up 4.65 points or 0.28 per cent from yesterday's close of 1,635.84.

The index opened 0.60 point higher at 1,636.44.               

Market breadth was positive as gainers outpaced losers by 377 to 341, while 358 counters were unchanged, 626 untraded and 12 suspended.

Turnover stood at 1.06 billion shares worth RM906.70 million.    

Among actives, Vivocom and AirAsia X each added one sen to 35.5 sen and 38.5 sen respectively, MTouche rose half-a-sen to 16 sen and AirAsia advanced 10 sen to RM2.15.

For the heavyweights, Maybank was up two sen to RM8.82, TNB improved four sen to RM13.98 and Public Bank perked eight sen to RM19.06.

Panasonic Manufacturing led the top gainers, adding 40 sen to RM29.40, while the top loser was Nestle, which fell 46 sen to RM75.54.

The FBM Emas Index gained 29.95 points to 11,477.17, the FBMT100 Index increased 33.34 points to 11,168.06 and the FBM Emas Shariah Index soared 15.71 points to 11,950.09.

The FBM 70 surged 44.70 points to 12,967.57, the FBM Ace jumped 83.23 points to 5,772.04, while the Finance Index was 43.64 points higher at 14,571.13.

The Industrial Index added 9.07 points to 3,074.57 but the Plantation Index fell 5.70 points to 7,487.04. ― Bernama