Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sri Lanka stock exchange changes Milanka index

Dec 22, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Milanka Price Index (MPI) is to be changed from January 03 for the first half of 2011 by adding a conglomerate, hotel and finance company, the Colombo Stock Exchange said.

The new firms included in the index for the period from January 03 to June 30, 2011 are Galadari Hotels (Lanka), Hemas Holdings group, and LB Finance while ACL Cables, Colombo Dockyard and Lanka IOC have been dropped.

The Milanka index, one of the two main indices on the Colombo Stock Exchange, tracks the 25 most liquid stocks weighted on market capitalisation during the previous year.

The other index is the All Share Price Index which indicates the price fluctuations of all the listed companies and covers all the traded companies during a market day.

The composition of the companies in the Milanka Price Index with effect from January 03 is as follows:

Banks, Finance & Insurance

Commercial Bank of Ceylon

DFCC Bank

Hatton National Bank

Janashakthi Insurance

LB Finance

Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka

National Development Bank

Nations Trust Bank

Pan Asia Banking Corporation

Sampath Bank

Seylan Bank

Health Care

Nawaloka Hospitals

Beverages, Food & Tobacco

Distilleries Co. of Sri Lanka

Investment Trusts

Environmental Resources Investment

Diversified

Hemas Holdings

John Keells Holdings

Richard Pieris

Land & Property

Overseas Realty (Ceylon

Manufacturing

Chevron Lubricants Lanka

Chemical and Pharmaceuticals

Chemical Industries (Colombo)

Telecommunication

Dialog Axiata

Trading

Brown & Co

Hotels & Travels

Asian Hotels and Properties

Galadari Hotels (Lanka)

John Keells Hotels

source - www.lbo.lk

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