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KL shares higher on buying of heavyweights

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:47 PM PST

Share prices on Bursa Malaysia opened higher, continuing its rally from last week, with buying interest by fund managers in selected heavyweights and index-linked counters, dealers said.

After 15 minutes of trading, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) advanced 8.39 points to 1,667.24, pushed by gains mostly seen in Petronas Gas and Sime Darby.

Petronas Gas jumped 7.225 per cent or RM1.38 to RM20.48 and Sime Darby rose 11 sen or 1.176 per cent to RM9.46.

The Finance Index improved 44.721 points to 15,236.32, the Industrial Index gained 53.66 points to 2,770.98 and the Plantation Index increased 14.92 points to 7,994.44.

The FBM Emas Index jumped 46.93 points to 11,284.1, the FBMT100 was 50 points higher at 11,146.6 and the FBM Mid 70 Index rose 26.5 points to 12,116.25 but the FBM Ace Index eased 1.61 points to 4,199.09.

Gainers led losers 86 to 80, with 105 counters unchanged, 1,375 untraded and 31 others were suspended.

Volume stood at 36.756 million shares worth RM27.842 million.

Among actives, TH Heavy Engineering shed half-a-sen to 56 sen, TH Heavy Engineering-WA slipped one sen to 34.5 sen while XOX was unchanged at 21.5 sen.

Heavyweights, Maybank added one sen to RM9.05 while both CIMB and Axiata rose two sen each to RM7.65 and RM6.59, respectively.

Meanwhile, Tradewinds, Tradewinds Plantation and Padiberas Nasional Bhd (Bernas) have requested for suspension of trading today pending an announcement of a material corporate proposal.

It was reported earlier that Tradewinds might privatise both Tradewinds Plantations and Bernas and streamline all its commodity-based businesses under one listed company. Bernama

Ringgits opens lower against US dollar

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:49 PM PST

The ringgit was lower against the US dollar this morning on lack of interest for riskier assets ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

At 9am, the ringgit was traded at 3.0700/0730 against the greenback from 3.0585/0615 on Friday.

However, the ringgit was mostly mixed against other major currencies.

It eased against the Singapore dollar to 2.5117/5145 from 2.5064/5098 but was marginally higher against the yen at 3.6349/6397 from 3.6359/6407 on Friday.

The local currency appreciated against the British pound to 4.9565/9629 from 4.9688/9749 but was down against the euro at 4.0438/0484 from 4.0418/0467,previously. Bernama

Kredit: www.nst.com.my

Ahad, 23 Disember 2012

NST Online Business Times : latest

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