KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — Bursa Malaysia finished on an easier note today in cautious trading, dealers said.

A dealer said overall sentiment was cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve interest rate decision next week.

The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 10.42 points, or 0.65 per cent, to 1,603.60, on a cautious trading day with selective trading seen.

Market breadth, however, was positive with gainers outpacing decliners by 413 to 317, while 298 counters were unchanged, 787 untraded and 12 others suspended.

Total volume rose to 2.23 billion units valued at RM1.86 billion from 1.83 billion units valued at RM2.02 billion yesterday.

“Lower liners were in play today,” the dealer said.

The FBM 70 gained 35.29 points to 11,890.56, while the FBM Ace jumped 38.41 points to 5,478.63.

The FBM Emas Index eased 37.88 points to 11,029.12, the FBMT100 Index fell 46.49 points to 10,752.77, while the FBM Emas Shariah Index advanced 27.64 points to 11,551.34.

The Finance Index dipped 200.89 points to 14,015.90 and the Plantation Index trimmed 15.26 points to 6,890.07.

The Industrial Index added 5.01 points to 3,084.86.

Among heavyweights, TNB inched up 10 sen to RM11.22, while Maybank slipped 14 sen to RM8.41, Public Bank edged down 26 sen to RM17.76 and Axiata eased three sen to RM5.90.

Among actively-traded stocks, Sumatec rose two sen to 15.5 sen, UEM Sunrise gained 14 sen to RM1.06, AirAsia added five sen to RM1.25 and Frontken inched up half-a-sen to 17.5 sen.

Main Market volume expanded to 1.57 billion units worth RM1.73 billion against yesterday’s 984.44 million units worth RM1.83 billion.

Turnover on the ACE Market trimmed to 289.95 million units valued at RM57.26 million from 334.14 million units valued at RM86.00 million yesterday.

Warrants shrank to 366.55 million units worth RM76.18 million from yesterday’s 507.98 million units worth RM105.92 million.

Consumer products accounted for 74.32 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (195.67 million), construction (41.72 million), trade and services (886.20 million), technology (44.44 million), infrastructure (12.34 million), SPAC (20.38 million), finance (43.51 million), hotel (473,200), properties (222.92 million), plantations (22.47 million), mining (20,000), REITs (5.39 million) and closed/fund (15,100). — Bernama