KUALA LUMPUR: Mild buying of Sime Darby and Tenaga helped the KLCI stay in positive territory in early trade on Thursday but steel stocks, which put on hefty gains since Monday after the government liberalised the sector, retreated.
At 10am, the KLCI was up 1.97 point to 1,289.71. Turnover was 120.64 million shares valued at RM148.15mil. There were 139 gainers, 181 losers while 179 counters were unchanged and 930 counters untraded.
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