KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia rose for the second day, putting on 0.84% on Tuesday, extending the previous session’s gains on follow-through interest.
The benchmark FBM KLCI rose 11.74 points to 1,409.36 after moving between its intraday high of 1,411.55 and low of 1,402.90.
Overall, gainers trounced decliners 568 to 280, with 330 counters unchanged. Turnover stood at 1.92 billion shares valued at RM1.45bil.
All indices on Bursa Malaysia, apart from the Bursa Malaysia Plantation Index, were up. Bursa Malaysia Plantation index fell 70.93 points or 1.09% to 6,438.06 points today.
The KLCI-component stocks were overwhelmingly positive, with 23 gainers and four losers while one closed unchanged.
Movers in the KLCI component stocks included Maxis Bhd
which pushed the index up by 2.1216. The telco rose 18 sen to RM3.69.
CIMB lifted the index higher by 1.7344, gaining 11 sen to RM5.23 while Maybank pushed the index higher by 1.4422, rising eight sen to RM8.68.
Key losers among the component stocks included Sime Darby Plantation, which fell 12 sen to RM4.04, IHH Healthcare lost four sen to RM5.85, Telekom Malaysia eased three sen to RM5.45 and IOI Corp declined two sen to RM3.75.
Among the gainers on the broader market, Carlsberg gained 32 sen to RM22.74, F&N added 28 sen to RM21.84 and PMB Technology climbed 18 sen to RM4.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 1.78%.
Elsewhere in the region, Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 2.96%, South Korea’s Kospi closed up 2.5% and Singapore’s Straits Times Index added 1.02%.
