KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31— Share prices on Bursa Malaysia were traded lower in early trading today on profit taking, dealers said. At 9.33 am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI was 8.78 points easier at 1,808.6 after opening 1.31 points higher at 1,816.96.
HwangDBS Vickers Research said the benchmark index, which hit a high of 1,818.89 before losing steam to close at 1,817.38 yesterday, could continue to be range-bound between its immediate support and resistance levels of 1,800 and 1,825 today.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index lost 101.67 points to 16,650.88 while the Plantation Index rose 18.85 points to 8,591.9 and the Industrial Index was up 4.57 points to 3,141.84. The FBM Emas Index shed 50.64 points to 12,581.25 and the FBMT100 Index lost 50.98 points to 12,305.09 while the FBM 70 rose 23.12 points to 14,310.87 and the FBM Ace added 14.10 points to 5,731.09.
Gainers outpaced losers 137 to 203, with 776 counters unchanged, 533 untraded and 82 others suspended. Turnover stood at 414.65 million shares worth RM408.79 million.
Among actives, The Media Shoppe and Daya Materials added 0.5 sen each to 8.5 sen and 39 sen respectively and Sensol gained 3 sen to 46.5 sen. Boustead lost 6 sen to RM5.18 while Instacom was unchanged at 31.5 sen.
Among heavyweights, Maybank fell 7 sen to RM9.75, Axiata and Petronas Chemicals each dropped 3 sen to RM6.87 and RM7.10 respectively. CIMB shed 10 sen to RM7.50 and Sime Darby lost 1 sen to RM9.55. — Bernama
