KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) closed 2.63 points or 0.14 per cent higher today, supported by buying in selected blue chips led by Tenaga Nasional.
The key index, which moved in a tight range of 5.56 points, touched a low of 1,865.53 and ended at the day’s high of 1,871.09.
On the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers by 474 to 353.
“That gave a market breadth of 1.34 indicating the bulls were in control,” said one local dealer.
Major stock advancers among the FBMKLCI component stocks included Tenaga, which chalked up 20 sen to RM12.46 with 5.956 million shares traded, contributing 1.986 points to the index.
Other buying support came from finance-related stocks Hong Leong Financial Group which jumped 66 sen to RM18.26 and AMMB Holdings added 12 sen to RM7.01, while Digi.com gained half a sen to RM5.79.
Total volume contracted to 2.68 billion shares worth RM1.93 billion from 2.71 billion shares worth RM2.27 billion last Friday.
On other scoreboard, the FBM Emas Index was 15.36 points higher at 13,070.96, the FBMT100 Index appreciated 12.36 points to 12,648.03 and the FBM Emas Syariah Index soared 31.79 points to 13,326.51.
The FBM 70 shed 6.74 points to 14,368.08, the FBM Ace jumped 102.52 points to 7,042.23, while on sectorial basis, the Finance Index gained 36.62 points to 17,568.50, the Industrial Index added 3.74 points to 3,254.19 but the Plantation Index dipped 30.44 points to 8,537.18.
Actively traded stocks included PDZ Holdings, Marco Holdings and Sanichi, which were all flat at 34 sen, 21 sen and 13 sen respectively, Asia Bioenergy edged up two sen to 14.5 sen and Efficient E-Solutions added half-a-sen to 33 sen.
British American Tobacco led the top gainers, adding 70 sen to RM72.00, while the top loser was Nestle, which fell 30 sen to RM66.90.
The Main Market volume decreased to 1.86 billion units worth RM1.782 billion, from last Friday’s 2.08 billion units worth RM2.148 billion.
Turnover on the ACE Market surged to 786.53 million shares valued at RM97.41 million, from 578.01 million shares valued at RM97.41 million previously.
Warrants declined to 33.14 million units worth RM5.50 million from Friday’s 36.43 million units worth RM5.70 million.
Consumer products accounted for 185.07 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (203.98 million), construction (84.45 million), trade and services (1.026 billion), technology (106.80 million), infrastructure (18.00 million), SPAC (47.10 million), finance (32.89 million), hotels (2.96 million), properties (116.84 million), plantations (23.92 million), mining (96,300), REITs (9.24 million), and closed/fund (13,000). — Bernama
