BURSA Malaysia ended marginally high-
er yesterday on continued buying support
on the back of the country’s better indus-trial production data released earlier yesterday.
The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia
KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose 1.77 points to close at 1,878.38, after opening 2.86 points higher at 1,879.47. It fluctuated between 1,873.59 and 1,879.91 points.
Gainers outpaced losers by 366 to 302, while 345 counters were unchanged, 612 untraded and 16 others suspended.
In contrast, most regional markets were weaker after the World Bank cut its global growth forecast to 2.8 per cent from an earlier 3.2 per cent.
Among the heavyweights, Maybank was unchanged at RM9.86, Public Bank shed four sen to RM20.78 but TNB gained two sen to RM11.78.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index increased 0.76 point to 17,194.74, Industrial Index rose 8.51 points to 3,202.88 and the Plantation Index advanced 9.61 points to 9,251.66.
The FBM Emas Index was 22.16 points higher at 12,990.8, FBMT100 Index added 19.601 points to 12,635.16, FBM ACE Index rose 0.89 point to 6,623.1 and the FBM 70 advanced 52.091 points to 14,114.23.
Meanwhile, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended mostly higher in line with the cash market.
July 2014 rose one point to 1,882, Sep-
tember 2014 added two points to 1,878.5
and December 2014 went up five points to 1,878.
Turnover decreased to 4,746 lots from 6,087 lots on Tuesday but open interest increased to 35,297 contracts from 35,105 contracts previously. Bernama
