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Sri Lankan shares extend losses as consumer staples, industrials weigh

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March 13 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares closed lower for a second straight session on Monday, weighed by consumer staples and industrials stocks.


* The CSE All-Share index fell 1.21% to 9,491.04.


* Conglomerate Expolanka Holdings Plc and Sri Lanka Telecom Plc were the biggest drags to the index, down 2% and 3.1%, respectively, according to Refinitiv data.
* The trading volume for the CSE All Share index rose to 238.8 million shares from 66.7 million in the previous session.
* The equity market's turnover rose to 2.09 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($6.39 million) from 1.78 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.


* Foreign investors were net buyers in the equity market, purchasing stocks worth 848.6 million rupees, while domestic investors were net sellers, offloading 1.27 billion rupees worth of shares, the data showed.
* For a report on global markets, click ($1 = 327.0000 Sri Lankan rupees) (Reporting by Navamya Ganesh Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Shweta Agarwal)

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