KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 — The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) ended almost flat today after range-bound trade in line with regional stock markets, dealers said.

At 5pm, the benchmark FBM KLCI) stood at 1,815.18, down 0.43 of a point, after hovering between 1,810.73 and 1,820.5 through the day.

A dealer said Southeast Asian stocks were range-bound but remained resilient after China posted softer than expected economic data.

“China’s industrial output growth softened more than expected to 7.7 per cent from a year earlier, while fixed investment growth plunged to a 13-year low and the retail sales tempo slowed,” he said.

On other scoreboards, the FBM Emas Index lost 17.11 points for 12,566.37, the FBMT100 Index 10.97 points to 12,225.75, the FBM Ace 116.62 points to 6,489.06 and the FBM 70 43.37 points to 13,705.06.

Sector-wise, the Industrial Index improved 5.66 points to 3,284.59 but the Finance Index lost 27.631 points to 16,397.18 and the Plantation Index shed 41.9 points to 8,465.49.

Losers more than doubled gainers at 554 to 244, with 309 counters unchanged, 567 counters untraded and 13 others suspended.

Volume rose to 1.69 billion shares worth RM1.72 billion from the 1.19 billion shares worth RM1.81 billion yesterday.

Of the heavyweights, Maybank lost 4 sen to RM9.61 and Sime Darby eased 1 sen to RM9.60.

Tenaga gained 10 sen to RM13.50 and Public Bank improved 4 sen to RM18.14. Axiata was flat at RM7.05.

Among actives, Jasa Kita added 6 sen to 26 sen and Minetech earned 0.5 sen to 16.5 sen.

Efficient E-Solutions and Dagang Nexchange dropped 1.5 sen each to 36 sen and 34 sen respectively, and TH Heavy Engineering declined 5 sen to 47 sen.

Main Market volume increased to 1.2 billion units worth RM1.6 billion from yesterday’s 1.1 billion units worth RM1.66 billion.

Turnover on the ACE Market fell to 434.96 million shares valued at RM113.02 million from 537.83 million shares worth RM138.98 million.

Warrants increased to 51.52 million units worth RM6.45 million from 50.74 million units worth RM6.19 million.

Consumer products accounted for 56.17 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products 305.15 million, construction 46.23 million, trade and services 500.01 million, technology 117.68 million, infrastructure 15.36 million, SPAC 39.84 million, finance 39.33 million, hotels 293,100, properties 59.87 million, plantations 14.45 million, mining 8,000, REITs 11.26 million and closed/fund 46,400. — Bernama