Bursa malaysia ends mixed in cautious trading

sentiment continued to cloud the market ahead of the release of several economic data scheduled for this week, namely US jobs data and Malaysia’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index ( PMI).

“F ur thermor e, buy ing support was dampened by US Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams’ comments that three interest-rate increases this year make sense as the central bank takes gradual steps to tighten monetary policy and shrink its balance sheet,” he added.

Among he av ywei ght s , Maybank eased four sen to RM9.36, while Public Bank added four sen to RM20.06, TNB gained six sen to RM13.78, Sime Darby rose one sen to RM9.34 and Petronas Chemicals increased two sen to RM7.27.

Of actives, Hibiscus Petroleum was 5.5 sen higher at 46.5 sen, Luster Industries fell 1.5 sen to 12 sen and AirAsia X declined one sen to 39.5 sen.

The FBM Emas Index was 25.3 points lower at 12,570.9, the FBMT 100 Index shed 20.07 points to 12,213.08 but the FBM Emas Shariah Index added 0.31 of- a- point to 12,849.85.

The FBM Ace fell 48.83 points to 6,219.25 and the FBM 70 decreased 111.67 points to 14,921.71.

Sector-wise, the Finance Index fell 53.45 points to 16,382.68, the Industrial Index increased 13.65 points to 3,260.36 and the Plantation Index was down 40.03 points at 8,010.2.

Main Market turnover improved to 1.76 billion units worth RM2.03 bil lion from 1.57 billion units worth RM1.74 billion on Monday.

Volume on the ACE Market rose to 607.09 million units valued at RM99.25 million, from 504.27 million units, valued at RM101.63 million.

Warrants widened to 231.52 million units valued at RM20.82 million from 223.1 million units valued at RM23.4 million previously.

C o n s ume r pr o du c t s accounted for 129.83 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products ( 690.76 million), construction ( 89.72 mil lion), trade and services ( 89.72 mil l ion) , technology ( 515.31 million), infrastructure ( 9.83 million), SPAC ( 888,400), finance (73.92 million), hotels (1.25 million), properties ( 169.5 mi l lion), plantations ( 15.18 million), mining (10,000), REITs (10.53 mi l lion), and closed/ fund (10,000).

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