The Colombo Stock Exchange hit an all-time high on Monday (Feb 8) with 2.53 percent in the All-Share Price Index. It was a new record high of 3800.81 points in the intraday trading, surpassing its previous record high of 3735.86 hit on Tuesday.

It closed 2.23 percent or 82.65 points firmer at 3789.37.

The bourse has risen 5.5 percent since the Presidential election ended, CSE sources said.

The day's turnover was 2.6 billion rupees ($22.5 million), over four times of 2009 daily average of 593.6 million rupees.

The bourse has risen 11.9 percent so far this year, the best in Asia, after being one of the world's best-performing markets in 2009, jumping 125.2 percent on post-war optimism.