Bursa Malaysia ends at intra-day low

closed positions on worry about the declining oil prices on indication that the continued rise in US crude production as well as the close of Wall Street stock market due to US Independence Day holiday on July 4.

Among heav ywei ght s , Maybank rose one sen to RM9.65, HLBank gained eight sen to RM15.74, TNB and Public Bank eased two sen each to RM14.10 and RM20.30, respectively while Sime Darby was f lat at RM9.51.

Of the losers, Petronas Gas lost 30 sen to RM18.50, BAT declined 20 sen to RM43.28, Pet ronas Dagangan and Petronas Chemicals shed 16 sen each to

RM2 4 .16 and RM7.14 , respectively.

Among the actives, Netx and Borneo Oil were f lat at five sen and 11.5 sen, respectively, Dagang Nexchange improved one sen to 60.5 sen, and IFCA recovered 5.5 sen to 40.5 sen.

The FBM Emas Index fell 41.55 points to 12,588.54, FBM Ace eased 13.38 points to 6,522.55, FBMT 100 Index slipped 43.68 points to 12,221.36, FBM Emas Shariah Index plunged 51.50 points to 12,806.74 and the FBM 70 declined 46.22 points to 15,047.90.

On a sectoral basis, the Plantation Index eased 22.56 points to 7,909.40, Finance Index fell 11.10 points to 16,767.11 and the Industrial Index lost 20.24 points to 3,252.47.

The Main Market turnover inched down to 1.29 billion u n i ts wo r th RM1 . 6 8 bi l l ion from 1.30 bi l l ion units worth RM1.64 billion on Monday.

War rant s increased to 149.39 million units valued at RM22.34 million from 132.05 million units valued at RM15.61 million.

Volume on the ACE Market surged to 443.19 mi l lion sha res wor th RM9 5 .6 8 million from 311.70 million shares worth RM71.92 million previously.

C on sume r pr o duc t s a c c ou nt e d for 95.82 mil l ion sha r e s t raded on the Mai n Ma rket , industrial products ( 288.52 mi l l i on) , cons t r uct ion ( 101.56 million), trade and services ( 513.49 mil lion), technology ( 65.75 million), infrastructure ( 5.85 million), SPAC ( 977,500), finance ( 74.41 mil lion), hotels ( 552,500), properties ( 133.11 million), plantations ( 14.90 million), mining ( 4,000), REITs ( 2.89 mil lion) and closed/ fund (13,500).

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