KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 — Bursa Malaysia ended the week marginally higher today, with mild buying momentum in heavyweights and lower liners, a dealer said.

Most regional stock markets were closed today for the Good Friday holiday.

The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) closed 2.15 points better at 1,852.69 after trading between 1,847.38 and 1,854.07 through the day.

Among heavyweights, Public Bank rose 6 sen to RM20.04, TNB added 2 sen to RM11.90 while Maybank and Sime Darby were flat at RM9.83 and RM9.30 respectively. CIMB fell 1 sen to RM7.39 and Axiata eased 2 sen to RM6.57.

Among actives, 1 Utopia and Iris Corp added 1 sen each to nine sen and 49.5 sen respectively, while PDZ Holdings edged up 0.5 sen to 15.5 sen. Talam Transform slipped 0.5 sen to 9.5 sen and LB Aluminium shed 1.5 sen to 73.5 sen.

Bursa Malaysia announced that Hwang-DBS (Malaysia) Bhd had been renamed Hwang Capital (Malaysia) Bhd.

In a statement today, the exchange operator said Hwang Capital’s shares would be traded and quoted under a new stock short name of “Hwang” with effect from Tuesday.

On the scoreboard, the Industrial Index eased 4.5 points to 3,186.82 and the Finance Index shed 1.56 points to 16,948.54. The Plantation Index rose 11.85 points to 8,924.34.

The FBM Emas Index appreciated 14.88 points to 12,870.87 and the FBMT100 Index rose 9.87 points to 12,504.13, with the FBM 70 falling 7.11 points to 14,131.27. The Ace Index was 41.59 points higher at 6,879.17.

Gainers led losers 455 to 362 while 331 counters were unchanged, 478 untraded and 20 others were suspended.

Turnover was reduced at 2.216 billion shares valued at RM1.693 billion, from the 2.52 billion shares valued at RM2.113 billion yesterday.

Main Market volume stood at 1.546 billion units worth RM1.536 billion, from 1.751 billion units worth RM1.965 billion yesterday.

Turnover on the ACE market fell to 584.20 million shares valued at RM134.51 million, from 712.827 million shares valued at RM133.40 million,

Warrants widened to 78.507 million units worth RM15.742 million, from 41.88 million units valued at RM5.854 million.

Consumer products accounted for 77.31 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products 405.4 million, construction 119.0 million, trade and services 484.52 million, technology 57.15 million, infrastructure 7.59 million, SPAC 18.65 million, finance 49.78 million, hotels 3.81 million, properties 302.91 million, plantations 16.36 million, mining 8,200, REITs 4.02 million and closed/fund 23,000. — Bernama