KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Bursa Malaysia remained higher at mid-morning today, boosted by the buying interest of investors, with the benchmark index staying above the 1,800-points level, dealers said.
At 11.06am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 5.35 points higher at 1,803.03, after hovering between 1,801.83 and 1,807.27.
The composite index was lifted by gains in finance counters and key heavyweights like Maybank, CIMB, Hong Leong Financial, YTL Corp and IHH Healthcare.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index surged 72.15 points to 17,326.42, the Industrial Index rose 14.81 points to 3,057.07 and the Plantation Index advanced 27.71 points to 8,434.87.
The FBM Emas Index was up 37.43 points to 12,574.77, the FBMT 100 Index increased 39.09 points to 12,310.91, and the FBM 70 Index climbed 56.34 points to 14,498.06,
However, the FBM ACE Index slipped 3.87 points to 4,991.92.
Gainers were slightly higher than losers at 269 to 265, while 300 counters were unchanged, 754 untraded and 14 others suspended.
Turnover stood at 446.174 million shares worth RM524.742 million.
Among actives, TH Heavy Engineering slipped two sen to 89 sen, while Flonic Hi-Tec, Karambunai and China Stationery, were all flat at 11 sen, 12.5 sen and 27.5 sen, respectively.
Newly-listed ABM Fujiya, opened at a five cent premium over its offer price of 60 sen per share this morning, and was traded two sen better at 62 sen at 11.06 am, with a total of 19.943 million lots exchanging hands.
For the heavyweights, Maybank gained two sen to RM10.68 and CIMB rose four sen to RM8.52, with both Sime Darby and Maxis improving one sen each to RM9.51 and RM7.06 respectively, while Axiata Group was flat at RM6.83. – Bernama
