At 5pm, the FBM KLCI was down 8.09 points or 0.5% to 1,600.29. Turnover was 7.46 billion shares valued at RM4.10bil.In today’s session, 21 of the KLCI-component stocks closed in red while only six counters traded higher and three counters remained unchanged.Supermax added 13 sen to RM5.44, Telekom Malaysia rose six sen to RM5.96, Hong Leong Financial group added two sen to RM16.76 and Sime Darby gained two sen to RM2.36.
KLK lost 26 sen to RM21.90, Petronas Dagangan shed 24 sen to RM20.02, Nestle fell 20 sen to RM136.30, MISC declined 14 sen to RM6.68 and Hap Seng gave up 14 sen to RM6.68.gained 30 sen to RM9.50.lost 16 sen to RM12.74. Meanwhile, Asian shares hovered near 1-1/2 week highs on Monday helped by expectations monetary policy will remain accommodative the world over, while Covid-19 vaccine rollouts help ease fears of another dangerous wave of coronavirus infections, Reuters reported.South Korea’s Kospi ended up 0.22 points, or 0.01%, to 3,198.84.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.5% to 29,106.15, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.6% to 11,092.95. China’s CSI300 index rose 2.4% to 5,087.02 and the Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.5% to 3,477.55.
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