KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 — Bursa Malaysia ended the day marginally lower on slow buying demand for local stocks especially trade/services- and finance-linked shares, dealers said.

At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) ended 6.58 points easier at 1,608.43, after moving between 1,600.27 and 1,613.96 throughout the day.

Topping the losers list was Axiata, which fell three sen to RM5.79, Genting dropped 16 sen to RM7.10 and CIMB eased six sen to RM4.63 and collectively accounted for a decline of 3.56 points to the overall composite index.

Market breadth was negative with losers outpacing gainers 412 to 366 while 294 counters were unchanged, 762 untraded and 48 others were suspended.

Volume decreased to 1.64 billion shares, valued at RM1.56 billion, from 1.66 billion shares, valued at RM1.94 billion, recorded last Friday.

Among actives, IFCA fell 4.5 sen to 92.5 sen, AirAsia eased three sen to RM1.27 while UEM Sunrise was seven sen better at RM1.23 and The Media Shoppe was flat at 12.5 sen.

On the scoreboard, the FBM 70 improved 42.61 points to 12,248.71, FBM Ace fell 5.75 points to 5,567.50 and the FBM Emas Index decreased 24.66 points to 11,140.72.

The FBMT100 Index slipped 25.06 points to 10,852.33 and the FBM Emas Shariah Index inched down 1.43 points to 11,827.21.

On a sectoral basis, the Finance Index gave up 49.50 points to 13,930.22, Plantation Index was up 25.08 points at 6,970.69 and the Industrial Index was 0.69 of-a-point better at 3,108.68.

Main Market volume fell to 948.60 million units, worth RM1.38 billion from 949.51 million, worth RM1.74 billion, recorded last Friday.

Turnover on the ACE Market eased to 341.89 million shares, worth RM113.83 million, versus 348.22 million shares, worth RM136.42 million registered previously.

Warrants decreased to 350.67 million units, worth RM61.71 million, against 363.34 million units, valued at RM72.64 million, transacted on Friday.

Consumer products accounted for 106.97 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products (143.37 million), construction (40.67 million), trade and services (350.60 million), technology (27.43 million), infrastructure (8.75 million), SPAC (9.52 million), finance (40.39 million), hotel (455,000), properties (191.35 million), plantations (25.47 million), mining (15,400), REITs (3.59 million) and closed/fund (31,000). — Bernama