{"id":17777,"date":"2026-09-15T04:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=17777"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:22:23","slug":"cse-ends-lower-on-weak-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=17777","title":{"rendered":"CSE ends lower on weak turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) closed lower on the day, with both benchmark indices posting modest losses amid subdued investor activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All-Share Price Index (ASPI) declined 0.32% to close at 21,313.92, while the S&amp;P SL20 Index fell 0.14% to 5,994.33. Year-to-date, the ASPI remains 5.79% lower, while the S&amp;P SL20 has declined 2.65%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Market sentiment remained negative, with 131 stocks declining against 62 gainers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dialog Axiata PLC, Aitken Spence PLC, and LOLC Holdings PLC were among the main contributors to the ASPI&#8217;s movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Market turnover amounted to Rs. 1.55 billion, significantly below the year-to-date daily average of Rs. 3.87 billion, reflecting muted trading activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day&#8217;s turnover was led by John Keells Holdings PLC, Sampath Bank PLC, and Lanka IOC PLC, while the Capital Goods, Banking, and Energy sectors accounted for the highest trading activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Hiru News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) closed lower on the day, with both benchmark indices posting modest losses amid subdued investor activity. The All-Share Price Index (ASPI) declined 0.32% to close at 21,313.92, while the S&amp;P SL20 Index fell 0.14% to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17779,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions\/17779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}