Bursa Malaysia ends marginally higher

gained one sen to RM7.78, Sime Darby wasf lat at RM9.32 and TNB fell eight sen to RM13.68.

Among actives, Iris Corp perked three sen to 18.5 sen, SKH Consortium wentup 1.5 sen to 15.5 sen, Netx Holdings and Dagang Nexchange each added one sen atfour sen and 45.5 sen, respectively.

Johan Holdings surged 9.5 sen to 33 sen and Hibiscus Petroleum climbed 2.5sen to 47.5 sen.

The regiona l market s were mixed fol lowing the US cruise missi les at tack onan air base in Syria. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.36 per cent to 18,664.63, Singapore’s StraitsTimes Index inched up 0.05 per cent to 3,177.27, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Indexfell 0.03 per cent to 24,267.30 and Indonesia’s Jakarta Composite Index declined0.47 per cent to 5,653.49.

The FBM Emas Index increased 9.62 points to 12,413.36, FBMT100 Indeximproved 11.08 points to 12,040.56 and the FBM 70 gave up 0.81 of- a- point to14,676.75.

The FBM Ace surged 119.10 points to 6,193.94 and the FBM Emas Shariah Indexinched up 3.77 points to 12,882.93.

Sector- wise, the Finance Index gained 17.74 points to 15,704.04, thePlantation Index fell 5.81 points to 8,163.78 and the Industrial Index eased0.82 of- a- point to 3,258.44.

Main Market turnover increased to 3.27 billion units worth RM3.09 bi l lionfrom Thursday’s 2.62 billion units worth RM2.76 billion.

Volume on the ACE Market rose to 1.70 bi l lion shares valued at RM256.32mi l lion from 985.87 mil lion shares valued at RM215.38 million yesterday.

Warrants decreased to 248.69 million units worth RM35.67 million fromThursday’s 251.43 million units worth RM29.35 million.

C o n s ume r pr o duc t s a c c ou nt e d for 2 0 8 .7 7 mil l ion sha r e s t raded on t he Ma i nMa rke t , industrial products ( 709.02 mi l l i o n) , cons t r uc t ion ( 180.79 mi l lion), trade and services ( 1. 3 7 bi l l ion) , technology ( 249.43 million), infrastructure( 6.79 million), SPAC (1.13 million), finance ( 2 2 4.0 9 mi l l ion), hotel s ( 7.71mi l l ion) , propert ies ( 279.07 million), plantations ( 25.75 million), mining(46,000), REITs ( 6.61 mil lion) and closed/fund ( 0).

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