feb 21 reuters  sri lankan shares ended sharply lower on monday recording their worst day in over a year amid broad based losses and steep declines in energy industrial and financial firms  the cse allshare index cse was down 447 at 1159137 points logging a 2month low  while all major sectors ended in the red conglomerates expolanka holdings expocm and lolc holdings lolccm were the biggest drags to the index slumping 77 and 83 respectively  lanka ioc lioccm a unit of indian oil corp iocns and liquefied petroleum gas supplier laugfs gas lgglcm were down 87 and 76 at the closing bell  sri lanka is trying to arrange a payment of 35 million for a shipment of 40000 tonnes of diesel with just a few days of stocks left the energy minister said on monday read more  foreign investors were net buyers in the equity market purchasing shares worth 1023 million rupees 50643564 according to stock exchange data  the trading volume inched up to 2218 million shares from 2199 million shares in the previous session  sri lankas overall rate of inflation as measured by the national consumer price index was 168 year on year in january compared to a 14 rise in december