Window Dressing on heavyweights spike FBMKLCI

The FBM KLCI index gained 24.04 points or 1.60% on Friday. The Finance Index increased 2.08% to 13702.75 points, the Properties Index up 0.18% to 999.71 points and the Plantation Index rose 0.92% to 8162.7 points. The market traded within a range of 22.13 points between an intra-day high of 1530.73 and a low of 1508.60 during the session.

Actively traded stocks include KULIM-CB, UTOPIA, MULPHA, KFC-CB, WIJAYA-WA, COASTAL-CA, MAHSING-CB, MAHSING-CE, SANICHI and SYF-WA. Trading volume decreased to 1329.42 mil shares worth RM1527.91 mil as compared to Thursday’s 1588.84 mil shares worth RM1163.31 mil.

Leading Movers were CIMB (+28 sen to RM7.44), MAYBANK (+26 sen to RM8.58), SIME (+20 sen to RM9.20), PBBANK (+20 sen to RM13.38) and DIGI (+10 sen to RM3.88). Lagging Movers were GENM (-1 sen to RM3.83), YTLPOWR (-1 sen to RM1.78), MMHE (-6 sen to RM5.66) and ARMADA (-1 sen to RM4.10). Market breadth was positive with 468 gainers as compared to 327 losers.

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A Happy & Prosperous New Year

 2012