KUALA LUMPUR: Fund buying of bank stocks Maybank and CIMB and power giant Tenaga Nasional enabled the FBM KLCI to end a volatile April on a firmer note on Tuesday.At 5pm, the KLCI was up 4.89 points or 0.3% to 1,642.29. There were 326 gainers, 473 losers and 410 counters unchanged.For April, the 30-stock index was up 9.46 points or 0.58% from a month ago. Axiata shed one sen to RM3.97 and Maxis two sen lower at RM3.97.Tenaga advanced eight sen to RM12.28, MISC 10 sen to RM6.90, MAHB seven sen to RM7.63 while Genting shed one sen to RM7.04 and GentingM shed five sen to RM3.18. Sime Darby was four sen lower at RM2.32.Crude palm oil for third month delivery fell RM4 to RM2,104 per tonne. It skidded 0.48% to the euro at 4.6357 and gave up 0.12% against the Singapore dollar to 3.0405.

Source: The Star April 30, 2019 09:41 UTC