KUALA LUMPUR: Plantation stocks continued to come under some selling pressure due to weakening crude palm oil (CPO) prices which fell to their lowest since October 2009 but some buying of Public Bank and RHB Cap helped stem the decline.
At the close, the FBM KLCI fell 2.56 points or 0.14% to 1,861.75 and pushed the 30-stock into the red, down 0.28% year-to-date. Turnover was 3.56 billion shares valued at RM2.46bil. There were 454 gainers, 437 losers and 300 stocks unchanged.
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