KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 ― Bursa Malaysia remained in the positive territory at mid-morning, lifted by persistent buying in selected heavyweights, led by the telecommunications and media counters.

CelcomDigi gained 10 sen to RM4.34, pulling the composite index up by 1.92 points.

At 11am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose by 13.83 points to 1,431.09 from yesterday’s closing of 1,417.26, after opening 2.07 points higher at 1,419.33.

The overall market breadth saw gainers surpassing decliners 417 to 289, while 373 counters were unchanged, 1,247 untraded and nine suspended.

Turnover stood at 1.59 billion units worth RM620.37 million.

As for other heavyweights, Public Bank increased six sen to RM4.09, Petronas Chemicals gained 11 sent to RM7.28 and Press Metal Aluminium perked 10 sen to RM4.80, while Sime Darby eased one sen to RM2.23, MR D.I.Y. fell two sen to RM1.53 and Westports was flat at RM3.17.

Of the actives, Classita added 1.5 sen to eight sen, NETX improved three sen to 19.5 sen, Widad inched up half-a-sen to 54 sen and UEM Sunrise went up 3.5 sen to 84 sen, while KNM Group decreased three sen to 11.5 sen.

On the index board, the FBMT 100 rose 89.99 points to 10,268.22, the FBM Emas Index jumped 90.34 points to 10,599.58, the FBM Emas Shariah improved 90.45 points to 10,881.93, the FBM 70 strengthened 83.21 points to 14,112.96, and the FBM ACE was 8.21 points higher at 5,135.72.

Sector-wise, the Industrial Products and Services Index inched up 1.50 points to 172.13, the Plantation Index accumulated 71.32 points to 6,921.17, the Financial Services Index soared 134.13 points to 16,020.97 and the Energy Index recovered 3.58 points to 871.25. ― Bernama