Tuesday, April 26, 2011

FBM KLCI claws back to edge higher at close

KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI bucked the trend at the regional markets and clawed back to erase its losses on Tuesday, April 26 as key regional markets slumped ahead of the FOMC meeting this week.

The benchmark index rose 0.22% or 3.29 points to 1,527.34, lifted by gains including at YTL Corp, Sime Darby, Maybank and Gamuda.

Losers led gainers by 458 to 287, while 322 counters traded unchanged. Volume was 1.04 billion shares valued at RM1.27 billion.

Among the gainers, YTL Corp added nine sen to RM1.68, Maybank seven sen to RM8.73, Sime Darby five sen to RM9.05, Gamuda three sen to RM3.79 and KLK two sen to RM20.90.

Formis Resources's warrants were actively traded after its 92.95 million free warrants were listed and quoted from 9am today.'' The warrants rose 28 sen to 28.5 sen with 30.9 million units done.

Other gainers included Lysaght and F&N that added 22 sen each to RM1.94 and RM17.02, Litrak and Vitrox up 18 sen each to 3.88 and RM2.27. Ta Ann 12 sen to RM6.75, BLD PLANTATION []s 11 sen to RM5.35 and Genting Plantations nine sen to RM8.

Decliners included Panasonic that fell 48 sen to RM22.82, HPI 31 sen to RM3.36, Tahps, Nestle and BAT 18 sen each to RM4.70, RM48 and RM47.60, PPG and Warisan down 14 sen each to 41 sen and RM2.51, Nilai 11 sen to 78 sen while Far East fell 10 sen to RM7.20.

The actives included Ramunia, Karambunai, DBE Gurney, Iris Corp, Tricubes and Smartag.

At the regional markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.17% to 9,558.69, the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.88% to 2,938.98, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index down 0.54% to 24,007.38, Singapore's Straits Times Index lost 0.50% to 3,171.83, South Korea's Kospi was down 0.44% to 2,206.30 while Taiwan's Taiex edged down 0.03% to 8,948.14.

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