KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 — Bursa Malaysia ended marginally higher prompted by gains in small cap stocks, a dealer said.

At 5pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 1.83 points better at 1,725.56, after fluctuating between 1,723.22 and 1,729.91 throughout the day.

A dealer told Bernama the rise was in-line with the positive quarterly results being reported by several companies.

“Meanwhile, other regional bourses broadly rose, in sync with China’s service sector data which climbed to an 11-month high.

“China’s services sector fared better than its manufacturing sector,” she added.

Japan’s Nikkei rose 93.7 points to 20,614.06, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 108.04 points and Jakarta Composite advanced 62.71 points.

On the scoreboard, the FBM Emas Index increased 18.28 points to 11,882.85, the FBMT100 Index rose 14.28 points to 11,566.11 and the FBM Emas Syariah was 37.1 points higher at 12,378.83.

The FBM 70 improved 23.19 points to 12,773.21 while the FBM Ace trimmed 10.03 points to 6,215.48.

On a sectoral basis, the Finance Index was up 0.13 of-a-point to 15,426.01, the Plantation Index garnered 25.27 points to 7,382.53 and the Industrial Index edged up 10.17 points to 3,285.22.

Losers tipped gainers 388 to 383 with 334 counters unchanged, 694 untraded and 13 others were suspended.

Total volume eased to 1.22 billion units, valued at RM1.39 billion, from 1.34 billion units, valued at RM1.53 billion, registered yesterday.

Of heavyweights, Maybank garnered two sen to RM9.19, Public Bank was down two sen at RM19.14, TNB fell 16 sen to RM11.78, Axiata declined one sen to RM6.43 and Sime Darby was flat at RM8.79.

Among losers, British American Tobacco declined 68 sen to RM66.02, United Plantations fell 30 sen to RM26.80, Hong Leong Financial slipped 22 sen to RM15.44 and Ajinomoto eased 20 sen to RM6.20.

Among actives, Globaltec, China Automobile and RGB rose one sen each to 6.5, 30.5 sen and 14.5 sen, respectively.

Meanwhile Sunway Construction expanded six sen to RM1.23 and The Media Shoppe perked half-a-sen to seven sen.

Main Market volume declined to 856.78 million shares, worth RM1.3 billion, against yesterday’s 896.38 million shares worth RM1.41 billion.

Turnover on the ACE Market decreased to 204.67 million units, valued at RM48.7 million, from 242.79 million units, valued at RM65.24 million, recorded yesterday.

Warrants trimmed to 160.07 million shares, worth RM40.32 million, from 193.95 million shares, valued at RM50.33 million, registered yesterday.

Consumer products accounted for 78.92 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (252.79 million), construction (83.93 million), trade and services (248.69 million), technology (52.45 million), infrastructure (12.62 million), SPAC (4.78 million), finance (60.58 million), hotels (982,300), properties (45.59 million), plantations (7.13 million), mining (nil), REITs (8.28 million), and closed/fund (6,000). — Bernama