Sri Lankan shares closed lower on Monday, dragged by losses in materials and energy stocks.
* The CSE All Share index ASI settled down 0.7% at 16,000.78.
* York Arcade Holdings 
YORK.N0000 and Muller & Phipps (Ceylon) 
MULL.N0000 were the top losers by percentage on the CSE All Share, falling 11% and 7.7%, respectively.
* Trading volume on the CSE All Share index fell to 29.5 million shares from 67.6 million shares in the previous session.
* The equity market’s turnover fell to 824.6 million Sri Lankan rupees ($2.8 million) from 2.18 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.
* Foreign investors were net buyers, purchasing stocks worth 26.8 million rupees, while domestic investors were net sellers, offloading shares worth 814 million rupees, the data showed.
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($1 = 295.4500 Sri Lankan rupees)
