Sri Lankan shares log second straight week of losses

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan shares closed marginally up on Friday, but logged the second straight week of losses, as gains in health care stocks offset losses in communications services.

The CSE All-Share index settled 0.14 percent higher at 23801.96 points.

Health care stocks were up 1.89 percent; Communications Services stocks down 1.22 percent

ACME Printing and Packaging and Industrial Asphalts (Ceylon) were the top percentage gainers on the index, up 50 percent and 25 percent, respectively, on the day.

Trading volume on the index fell to 311.1 million shares from 441.2 million in the previous session.