Ingress rose 25.5 sen to 59.5 sen, the highest since August last year, with 15.89 million shares done. The volume accounted for 20.7% of its paid-up.

At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI rose 2.87 points to 1,215.85. Turnover was 542.72 million shares valued at RM718.91 million, with a hefty portion of trading volume coming from KNM. There were 325 gainers, 199 losers and 245 stocks unchanged.

Light crude oil fell 33 cents to US$72.18 and crude palm oil futures for the third-month contract lost RM5 to RM2,176.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.8% to 21,792.62, Japan's Nikkei 225 added 0.95% to 10,268.67 and Singapore's Straits Times Index advanced 0.2% to 2,678.33. Shanghai's Composite Index added 1.48% to 3,044.17.

At Bursa, RHB Cap and Genting rose 11 sen each to RM5.12 and RM7.09 while Landmarks gained 10 sen to RM1.49 and SunCity eight sen higher to RM3.20.

KNM was the most active with 103.4 million shares done, added three sen to 80.5 sen. Halex, which was listed yesterday, fell seven sen to 87 sen. Its offer price was 78 sen.

NSTP rose four sen to RM1.94, off its early high of RM2.07 while Media Prima shed four sen to RM1.54, off the high of RM1.67.

Tanjong fell 22 sen to RM15.54, Proton lost 18 sen to RM4.20 as investors locked in gains, PPB gave up 14 sen to RM15.74 and Nestle 10 sen lower to RM33.50 while MISC gave up nine sen to RM9.10. Berjaya Media lost 11 sen to RM1.16.