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Sri Lanka sees new political risks since its sovereign debt default
Doctors in Sri Lanka in general earn higher salaries than the average train commuter
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Raises matter relating to domestic debt restructuring and economic assumptions
This program will support reforms in the power sector introduced under the Electricity Act
Sri Lanka is expecting payments from China for the sale of Hambantota port to flow in from January 2017, Central Bank Go...
Sri Lanka's sharp hikes in tax rates and weak economic freedoms are undermining the hotel investment environment, despit...
China has indicated that up to 2,500 companies looking to invest abroad could invest in Sri Lanka if the island can crea...
Sri Lanka's budget was approved by parliament Friday with an overwhelming majority of 107 votes, far in excess of what t...
Sri Lanka's Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest trade association, backed the proposed budget with a lower...
Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved the setting up of domestic drug companies as joint ventures with State Pha...
Sri Lanka's tax hikes will strengthen the revenue base, but some of the revenue assumptions look optimistic and governme...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Inland Revenue Department will carry out islandwide raids on businesses to rope ...
A debit tax on bank withdrawals will have to be paid by banks, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said, amid rising conc...
Sri Lanka is likely to exempt taxes on future interest of bonds issued before the budget in November, but is likely to t...
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| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
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| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
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| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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An activist group has lamented a perceived reduction in the control of Sri Lanka's elected ruling class and bureaucrats ...
Sri Lanka's renewable energy businessmen, who are making billions of rupees by selling high priced power to the people, ...
Sri Lanka is raising a carbon emission tax for cars by 80 percent to 2,000 rupees a media report said, while the fees wi...
Sri Lanka budget for 2017 has slapped penal debt taxes on bank withdrawals which claimed to boost banking transactions, ...
Sri Lanka's budget for 2017 has proposed multiple subsidized credit programs including 370 billion rupees of long term h...
The Finance ministry has revised the tax rates on vehicles making smaller cars and three wheelers more expensive, but co...
Sri Lanka's budget for 2017 has proposed slashing the loans given to buy car loans to 50 percent of the value from the c...
Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port, built by a Chinese firm with a loan from China during the ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, ...
Sri Lanka is proposing the re-export of used cars older than five years to ease congestion on already overcrowded roads,...
Sri Lanka hiked taxes, including on pension funds of private sector workers, and held state salaries and pensions for th...
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