KUALA LUMPUR: Fund purchasing of Maybank, MISC and Petronas Chemicals supported the FBM KLCI's progress at noontime on Thursday, empowering it to cross the essential 1,650 level.
At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI was up 6.59 focuses or 0.4% to 1,654.06. Turnover was 1.44 billion shares esteemed at RM779.15mil. There were 460 gainers, 264 failures and 326 stocks unaltered.
The ringgit solidified against the US$ to 4.4887 versus 4.4975 on Wednesday. In any case, it slipped against the pound sterling to 5.5339 from 5.5163 and it was at 3.1223 to Singapore dollar versus 3.1096.
The ringgit, one of Asia's most exceedingly awful performing monetary standards over the previous year, has further to fall, as indicated by BMI Research. One reason is on account of it is influenced by the yuan, which will stay under descending weight, BMI said in a Jan. 4 note, accrding to Bloomberg.
Maybank rose nine sen to RM8.17 and added 1.51 focuses to the KLCI, Hong Leong Bank added six sen to RM13.36, CIMB increased five sen to RM4.65 and Public Bank was up two sen to RM19.84.
MISC rose 17 sen to RM7.44 and bumped the KLCI up 1.24 focuses, Genting Bhd increased nine sen to RM8.03 while Genting Malaysia and Tenaga were level at RM4.62 and RM13.84.
US light unrefined petroleum slipped 11 pennies to US$53.15 and Brent lost 17 pennies to US$56.29 after the late keep running up.
Petronas Chemicals rose eight sen to RM7.19 while Petronas Gas and Petronas Dagangan added two sen to RM21.50 and RM23.80. Sumatec rose 0.5 sen to 9.5 sen with 139.20 million shares done.
Concerning telcos, Telekom rose two sen to RM6.01, Maxis edged up one sen to RM6.08 while Axiata and Digi were level at RM4.51 and RM4.89.
Age Credit rose 44 sen to RM14.84, MPI added 24 sen to RM7.66, LPI 16 sen higher at RM16.68 and UMW 15 sen to RM4.60.
Ann Joo offers rose 11 sen to RM1.20 and its inclination offers added 12 sen to RM1.20.
With respect to buyer stocks, BAT fell 54 sen to RM44.46 and Nestle was down 14 sen to RM77.14.
Unrefined palm oil for third-month conveyance rose RM5 to RM3,146 per ton. Sime Darby rose five seb to RM8.54, PPB Group was up eight sen to RM16 while IOI Corp and KL Kepong were level at RM4.41 and RM24.02.
Among the key provincial markets,
Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.36% to 19,524.32;
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.3% to 22,422.76;
CSI 300 shed 0.03% to 3,367.19;
Shanghai's Composite Index rose 0.11% to 3,162.37;
Hang Seng China Enterprise fell 1.58% to 9,590.04;
Taiwan's Taiex rose 0.66% to 9,347.83;
South Korea's Kospi fell 0.13% to 2,042.88;
Singapore's Straits Times Index rose 1.19% to 2,956.06
Spot gold rose US$10.02 to US$1,173.67.
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