Blue chips give up their gains, Maybank, Axiata dip


KUALA LUMPUR: With the weekend ahead and rising concerns over impact from possible US spending cuts, investors decided to take profit on recent gains on Friday with the biggest drags on the FBM KLCI being Maybank and Axiata.

At the close, the KLCI was down 0.19 of a point to 1,637.44, off the day's best of 1,640.60. Turnover was 877.93mil valued at RM1.45bil. Advancing counters beat decliners 362 to 272 while 323 counters were unchanged.

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