HEAVY SELLING DRAGS SHARE PRICES LOWER.

from BERNAMA, The Malaysian National News Agency KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 (Bernama) -- Heavy selling of heavyweight finance and plantation counters saw share prices closing lower on Bursa Malaysia today.

Investors turned jittery as they were cautious over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony on Wednesday that the US economy faced "unusually uncertain" prospects.

His comments came at a time when investors were already pre-occupied with the stalled US economic recovery coupled with the release of the "stress test" results for 91 European banks tomorrow," a dealer said.

At 5pm, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) ended the …