Finance stocks lead gains

BURSA Malaysia was bullish throughout yesterday’s session with the key index ending 0.38% higher, driven by gains in most blue-chip finance stocks and better local sentiment boosted by external factors. The FBM KLCI was 6.54 points higher at 1,721.42. Market breadth was positive, with gainers outpacing losers 475 to 357, while 361 were unchanged, 660 untraded and 20 suspended.

Of the finance heavyweights, Maybank rose 4 sen to RM9.32, PBBank edged up 10 sen to RM24.70, CIMB gained 1 sen to RM5.69 and HLBank was 6 sen higher at RM20.66. – Bernama