Bursa Malaysia slips 0.31% on broad profit-taking
Bursa Malaysia’s FBM KLCI fell 5.4 points, or 0.31%, to 1,695.44 at noon as profit-taking spread across industrial products, property, healthcare and telecommunications shares.
Source: The Star · NST Online · July 21, 2026 at 8:31 AM · AI-assisted report
Single-sourceKUALA LUMPUR, 21 JULY 2026 —
Bursa Malaysia’s FBM KLCI fell 5.4 points, or 0.31%, to 1,695.44 at noon as profit-taking spread across industrial products, property, healthcare and telecommunications shares.
Market Impact
The index slipped from Monday’s close of 1,700.84 after a 2.26-point opening gain evaporated, trading between 1,692.05 and 1,703.10. Decliners outnumbered gainers 685 to 265, with 477 counters unchanged, 1,299 untraded and 13 suspended. Turnover totalled 1.71 billion shares worth RM1.27 billion.
Profit-taking followed overnight losses on Wall Street and ahead of US jobs data due later on Friday, Maybank Investment Bank Bhd said in a note. “We expect the FBM KLCI to trade within 1,690–1,710 today, with support at 1,640,” the bank wrote.
Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd said technical indicators turned mixed after the decline, with resistance at 1,715–1,720 and support at 1,680–1,695.
Heavyweights lagged: Petronas Chemicals lost 20 sen to RM4.07, IOI Properties fell 10 sen to RM4.04, Maxis eased 7 sen to RM3.31, Sunway Healthcare declined 3 sen to RM1.81 and Telekom Malaysia shed 11 sen to RM7.41.
Among most active stocks, ACE debutant HSS Holdings added half a sen to 18.5 sen, while Zetrix AI and Dagang Nexchange each fell 2 sen to 76.5 sen and 44.5 sen respectively. SKP was flat at 27.5 sen and Top Glove lost 2.5 sen to 68.5 sen.
Top gainers included Ajinomoto, up RM3.82 to RM19.02, United Plantations, up 84 sen to RM32.80, KLK, up 78 sen to RM21.70, Batu Kawan, up 70 sen to RM21.50 and Petronas Gas, up 12 sen to RM17.46.
The heaviest losses were MPI, down RM1.84 to RM47.00, UMS Integration, down 56 sen to RM8.46, Nestlé, down 30 sen to RM95.00, and Vitrox and Sam Engineering, each down 29 sen to RM7.17 and RM4.90.
FBM Emas lost 62.68 points to 12,540.11, FBM Top 100 fell 59.88 points to 12,376.73 and FBM Emas Shariah slid 66.44 points to 12,419.05. FBM Mid 70 tumbled 173.65 points to 17,863.45 while FBM ACE gave up 45.45 points to 4,747.20.
Sector moves: Financial Services shed 100.36 points to 19,900.89, Industrial Products and Services fell 2.77 points to 186.02, Energy slipped 7.35 points to 755.51 and Plantation jumped 166.14 points to 9,023.20.
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