At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI rose 5.23 points to 1,620.92 versus Friday's close of 1,615.69. — Bernama picKUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — Bursa Malaysia wrapped up today’s trading on a higher note as gains in blue chips mainly from energy, utilities, banking, and consumer sectors helped offset losses in technology, healthcare and lower liners.
On the broader market, gainers led losers by 610 to 586, while 406 counters were unchanged, 593 untraded and 11 others suspended. The US stock market finished mostly higher on Friday as the benchmark Dow Jones industrial Average rose 0.9 per cent with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccine making positive progress, but the volatility in technology stocks kept a lid on the S&P 500 gains and sent Nasdaq lower .
“As such, it came to no surprise that banking counters were the darlings of investors today,” he added. Digi and Sime Darby Plantation expanded three sen to RM3.68 and RM4.90 respectively, while Axiata was two sen better at RM3.76. On the index board, the FBM Emas Index climbed 22.68 points to 11,884.81, the FBMT 100 was 22.43 points higher at 11,561.30, and the FBM Emas Shariah dropped 6.37 points to 13,129.63.Sector-wise, the Financial Services Index rose 96.12 points to 15,645.98, the Plantation Index improved 19.11 points to 7,155.89, and the Industrial Products and Services Index edged up 0.34 of-a-point to 192.44.
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