KL shares turn mixed mid-morning

Shares on Bursa Malaysia turned mixed at mid-morning today with gains limited by losses in selected heavyweight stocks, dealers said.

At 11am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) eased 0.88 of a point to 1,851.12, after opening 2.32 points higher at 1,854.32.

Among heavyweights, Tenaga Nasional dropped 34 sen or 2.9 per cent to RM11.40, with the total volume transacted at 11.07 million, accounting for 3.47

points of the index.

In terms of market breadth, the gainer-to-loser ratio was 317 to 307, while 292 counters were unchanged, 690 untraded and 14 others suspended.

A total of 719.73 million shares valued at RM728.77 million were traded.

On the scoreboard, the Industrial Index fell 13.29 points to 3,185.84, and the Plantation Index lost 18.16 points to 8,909.26, but the Finance Index jumped

66.47 points to 16,772.01.

The FBM Emas Index eased 0.61 of a point to 12,833.33, and the FBMT100 Index declined 2.53 points to 12,480, but the FBM 70 advanced 10.46 points to

14,051.37, while the FBM Ace gained 30.28 points for 6,806.5.

Among actives, Ingenuity Consolidated was flat at 9.5 sen, Asian Pac rose two sen to 23.5 sen, Insas increased one sen to RM1.32 and Sona Petroleum earned

half a sen to 55 sen.

As for the heavyweights, Maybank was flat at RM9.67, CIMB went up three sen to RM7.24, and Sime Darby was one sen higher at RM9.27, while Axiata lost two

sen to RM6.71.