Bursa Malaysia closes at intra-day high, bucks regional trend
Bursa Malaysia ended March 13, 2019 at the day’s high driven by a broad rally on Asian stock markets during earlier trading sessions and better market sentiment due to gains recorded on Wall Street as well as optimism over Brexit. — Picture by Azneal Ishak
Volume rose to four billion units, valued at RM2.39 billion, from 3.02 billion units worth RM2.10 billion yesterday. However, Wall Street strength should spillover to local sentiment with S&P 500 climbing by 0.3 per cent at yesterday’s close in the wake of last week’s five-session losing streak, which was recorded as its longest since November.
Of actives, Sapnrg increased 1.5 sen to 34 sen and its warrant was half-a-sen higher at 10.5 sen, Perdana went up 15 sen to 45 sen, and KNM improved one sen to 11.5 sen.
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