KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — Bursa Malaysia ended lower today on profit-taking in selected blue-chips and in line with the weaker sentiment on regional bourses.

The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) moved between 1,664.04 and 1,650.38 throughout the day, before settling 7.34 points weaker at 1,650.51 from yesterday’s close of 1,657.85.

Losers led gainers 372 to 347 with 395 counters unchanged, 580 untraded and 15 others suspended.

Volume slipped to 1.73 billion units worth RM1.61 billion from 1.76 billion units valued at RM1.78 billion yesterday.

Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB) in a note said the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting next week had kept the overall sentiment cautious, despite the ringgit’s appreciation against the US dollar and higher Brent crude price.

The local index also failed to reach the expected resistance level of 1,665.00 level forecasted by HLIB earlier today.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.97 per cent to 16,668.41 points while financial markets in Hong Kong and China were closed today for Tuen Ng holidays.

Top weighted Maybank slipped two sen to RM8.25, TNB and Public Bank shed 10 sen each to RM13.90 and RM19.04, respectively and Petronas Chemicals fell four sen to RM6.66.

Among actives, Bumi Armada added 1.5 sen to 75.5 sen, Trive Property rose 2.5 sen to seven sen and Vsolar gained one sen to 11 sen.

The FBM Emas Index decreased 53.62 points to 11,544.87, the FBMT 100 Index lost 56.02 points to 11,236.32 and the FBM Emas Shariah Index eased 39.75 points to 12,117.97.

The FBM 70 fell 86.79 points to 13,046.99 but the FBM Ace was 55.22 points higher at 5,503.13.

The Finance Index lost 77.30 points to 14,252.93, the Plantation Index slid 9.64 points to 7,595.18 and the Industrial Index was 31.64 points lower at 3,084.59.

Main Market turnover increased to 1.15 billion shares worth RM1.51 billion from yesterday’s 1.09 billion shares valued at RM1.66 billion.

The ACE Market volume rose to 418.92 million shares worth RM76.07 million from 411.39 million shares valued at RM83.29 million.

Warrants fell to 165.29 million shares worth RM23.48 million from 252.94 million shares valued at RM35.18 million previously. Consumer products accounted for 52.54 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (266.73 million), construction (41.77 million), trade and services (471.13 million), technology (151.76 million), infrastructure (7.81 million), SPAC (37.81 million), finance (32.19 million), hotels (591,800), properties (60.96 million), plantations (21.69 million), mining (10,000), REITs (5.95 million) and closed/fund (8,100). — Bernama