KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 — Shares on Bursa Malaysia resumed trading broadly lower mid-afternoon with selling activity mostly spotted in blue chips and heavyweights, dealers said.
The composite index stood at 1,837.23, down 3.12 points, from Friday’s 1,840.35.
A dealer said the downtrend on the local bourse was in line with other regional markets as investors adopted a wait-and-see attitude ahead of the Federal Reserve monetary meeting starting tomorrow.
Regionally, Japan’s Nikkei 225 gave up 250.2 points to 15,152.91, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 112.88 points to 23,133.08 and Singapore’s Straits Times Index declined 11.18 points to 3,053.47.
Back home, the Finance Index fell 44 points to 16,791.31, the Industrial Index decreased 11.1 points to 3,088.48 and the Plantation Index erased 35.14 points to 8,990.41.
The FBMT100 Index trimmed 19.96 points to 12,407.33, the FBM Emas Index declined 22.77 points to 12,674.45, the FBM 70 lost 34.19 points to 14,033.43 and the FBM Ace slipped 3.78 points to 5,624.91.
Losers doubled gainers 455 to 228, with 278 counters unchanged, 600 untraded and 31 others were suspended.
Volume transacted totalled 724.775 million shares worth RM876.337 million.
Among actives, Barakah Offshore slipped one sen to RM1.55 and Sumatec Resouces shed half-a-sen to 28.5 sen.
Of heavyweights, TNB fell eight sen to RM11.00, both Maybank and CIMB eased four sen each to RM9.98 and RM7.69, respectively, while Sime Darby slipped two sen to RM9.57.
However, Axiata Group added one sen to RM6.76. — Bernama
