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KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI steadied on Friday, after a recent decline boosted by gains in banking and Genting stocks.
The 30-stock index closed at 1,445.21, up 3.36 points, or 0.23%, taking its full-week drop to 0.35% or 5.14 points.
In the broader market, gainers outnumber losers 456-to-333; about 2.7 billion shares changed hands in deals worth RM1.42bil.
In today’s session, 15 of the KLCI-component stocks closed higher while eight counters ended lower.
Among the banks, Maybank added one sen to RM8.91, Public Bank rose three sen to RM4.12, CIMB climbed four sen to RM5.50, RHB Bank advanced three sen to RM5.63, AmBank gained three sen to RM3.78 and Hong Leong Bank jumped 14 sen to RM19.58.
Maybank, Public Bank and CIMB contributed 1.6367 points to the index.
On the broader market, Ajinomoto rose 24 sen to RM16.46, Panasonic Manufacturing
gained 20 sen to RM20.20, Malaysian Pacific Industries eased 26 sen to RM28.02 and Heineken slid 18 sen to RM25.86.
Elsewhere in the region, Japan’s Nikkei225 closed up 0.1%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 0.61%, South Korea’s Kospi closed down 0.01%, China CSI 300 added 0.4% and Singapore’s Straits Times Index closed down 0.3%.
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