Tuesday, October 5, 2010

DiGi drives FBM KLCI to higher close

KUALA LUMPUR:'' DiGi.com's share price helped propel the FBM KLCI to close nearly 10 points higher on Tuesday, Oct 6 following a rebound after the sharp fall in its share price the previous day.

The FBM KLCI closed 0.68% or 9.92 points higher at 1,472.19, lifted by the strong recovery in the share price of DiGi and key blue chips.

Volume was 985.74 million shares valued at RM1.51 billion. Losers led gainers by 411 to 319 while 290 counters traded unchanged.

DiGi, which had fallen 14.5% the previous day, rose RM3.80 to RM24.80, adding 7.15 points to the 30-stock index.

Among the gainers were Hong Leong Financial Group, up 24 sen to RM9.12, Hong Leong Bank rose 12 sen to RM9.15, Petronas Gas gained 10 sen to RM10.94, Genting Malaysia and AMMB added seven sen each to RM3.53 and RM5.92 while Maybank added four sen to RM8.94.

Among the losers, Rock Chemical Industries and Chin Teck fell 18 sen each to RM1.62 and RM8.20, Perstima lost 16 sen to RM4.84, Cahya Mata Sarawak fell 12 sen to RM2.82, Kossan down 11 sen to RM3.09 while Masterskill and Hua Yang lost 10 sen each RM3.21 and RM1.15.

Meanwhile, Malaysian Genomics Resource Bhd had a dismal first trading day on the ACE Market when it fell 12.96% or 14 sen to 94 sen at the close with 6.3 million shares traded.


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