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the market softening, moving forward,” he added.
Market breadth was negative, with losers outpacing gainers 625 to 317 with 467 counters unchanged, 351 untraded and 31 others suspended.
Volume declined to 3.00 billion units valued at RM2.64 billion from the 3.45 billion units valued at RM2.88 billion recorded previously.
Among heavyweights, Petronas gave up four sen for RM19.00, IOI Corp shed five sen to RM4.55, YTL shed one sen to RM1.51, Axiata fell 17 sen to RM5.23, while Hap Seng improved one sen to RM8.93.
As for the losers, Aeon Credit fell 56 sen to RM18.82, Petronas Dagangan declined 32 sen to RM24.08, Kesm Industries shed 26 sen to RM13.20, Genting declined 23 sen to RM9.74, as Time Dotcom and Allianz each lost 22 sen to RM8.93 and 12.50 respectively.
The FBM Emas Index fell 68.29 points to 12,660.40, the FBMT100 Index declined 69.66 points to 12,288.02 and the FBM Emas Shariah Index slid 91.09 points to 12,992.36.
The FBM 70 dipped 121.48 points to 15,247.26 and the FBM Ace declined 39.95 points to 6,430.48.
Sector-wise, the Finance Index shed 62.22 points to 16,342.69, the Plantation Index decreased 45.39 points to 8,057.89 and the Industrial Index eased 1.88 points to 3,266.45.
Main Market turnover narrowed to 1.85 billion units worth RM2.48 billion from 2.28 billion units worth RM2.71 billion recorded previously.
Volume on the ACE Market decreased to 606.58 million units valued at RM98.81 million from 755.73 million units valued at RM112.49 million.
Warrants increased to 536.88 million units valued at RM67.52 million from Wednesday’s 411.36 million units valued at RM58.97 million.
Consumer products accounted for 96.14 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products ( 471.54 million), construction ( 173.51 million), trade and services ( 501.36 million), technology ( 69.04 million), infrastructure (17.99 million), SPAC (3.94 million), finance (73.86 million), hotels ( 932,500 million), properties ( 402.54 million), plantations (25.40 million), mining (2,100), REITs (13.71 million), and closed/ fund (10,000).
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