After spending almost the entire day in negative territory yesterday, the KLSE Composite Index (CI) staged a sharp recovery minutes from the market's close to register a nearly two-point gain on late institutional support for selected blue chips.
The benchmark index ended 1.94 points higher than the previous day at 901.5 on moderate volume of just over 500 million shares. It had been down by more than five points for most of the day, and had even dropped by as much as 11points at one stage to a low of 888.2.
