FINANCIAL CHRONICLE – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up 1 percent on Wednesday, led by capital goods and banking, data on its site showed.
The ASPI closed up 1.65 percent, or 335.95 points, at 20,754.04.
The S&P SL20 closed up 0.74 percent, or 42.73 points, at 5,803.72.
Colombo Dockyard (up 8.74 percent at Rs.118.25), R.I.L Property (up 14.4 percent at Rs.26.20), and Access Engineering (up 4.46 percent at Rs.67.90) were top positive contributors to the ASPI.
The market turnover was 5.27 billion rupees. Most turnover was seen in banks (1.82 billion rupees), and capital goods (1.4 billion rupees).
Sri Lanka’s Ambeon Holdings announced a share sub-division which will see a share split into four.
The subdivision will see 356,869,666 ordinary voting shares increased to 1,427,478,664.
Ceylon Land & Equity announced the transfer of 241 million rights, more than 10 percent of the total issued holdings.
Renuka Land acquired a majority of these rights from Galle Face Properties and Renuka Enterprises.
Ceylon Land & Equity closed up 12.22 percent at Rs.10.10. (Colombo/March13/2026)
