KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia remain in the red territory in mid-afternoon trading on profit-taking, dealers said.
The market was also bogged down by losses in index-linked counters, dealers said.
At 2.50pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 6.32 points lower at 1,872.57 points.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index increased 1.09 points to 17,441.83 but the Industrial Index plummeted 13.63 points to 3,263.27, and the Plantation Index fell 150.59 points to 8,669.65.
The FBM Emas Index eased 33.96 points to 13,083.71, the FBMT100 Index increased 38.32 points to 12,651.75, the FBM 70 slipped 26.64 points to 14,348.23, and the FBM Ace rose 3.37 points to 7,035.19.
Losers led gainers by 425 to 342, with 333 counters unchanged, 542 untraded and 21 suspended.
Turnover stood at 1.764 billion units worth RM1.17 billion.
For heavyweights, Maybank, Public Bank and Tenaga downed two sen to RM10.06, RM19.32 and RM12.42 respectively.
Among actives, Sumatec gained eight sen to 48 sen, PDZ Holdings rose 3.5 sen to 33 sen and Globaltec added 0.5 sen to 12.5 sen. — Bernama
