COLOMBO: Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Friday, aided by industrials and financial stocks.
The CSE All-Share index settled 0.35% higher at 12,517.58 points. It gained 1.73% for the week, logging the sixth straight weekly rise.
Nation Lanka Finance and Industrial Asphalts were the top percentage gainers on the index, up 50% and 33.3%, respectively.
Trading volume on the index rose to 135.1 million shares from 124.7 million shares in the previous session.
The equity market’s turnover fell to 4.75 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($16.2 million) from 4.79 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.
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