Notable
'working with relevant countries and international financial institutions to support Sri Lanka to ease the debt'
The loan has fiscal, energy and climate goals
Budget deficit, current spending down in IFR
Unfortunately the government is not in a position to pay them
The list only shows waivers of a so-called 'luxury tax' waivers applicable to vehicles above certain value
Sri Lanka has bilateral debt with Paris Club creditors, India and China
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka hopes to stabilize the economy and trim the budget deficit to 5.4 percent of gross domestic prod...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is planning to raise value added tax to a uniform 15 percent, charge capital gains tax and retai...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers may meet in special session to discuss plans to deal with debt repayments...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka plans to lease vehicles on five year contracts instead of purchasing vehicles outright for use b...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has uncovered liabilities worth 1.15 trillion rupees that had been hi...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor has dismissed a rating and outlook downgrade by Fit...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is in talks with Citibank to syndicate a 500 million US dollar term loan, Central Bank Governor ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka wanted a program with the International Monetary Fund to signal investors that an economic strat...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Asian Development Bank is in talks to provide up to 200 million US dollars in budget support for Sri L...
ECONOMYNEXT - Manila-based Asian Development Bank is looking to team up with China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Ban...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka needs to work on fiscal consolidation and reduce the budget deficit and raise revenue, vi...
ECONOMYNEXT - A probe initiated by Deputy Minister Harsha de Silva has uncovered a scam where road contractors in his el...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Asian Development Bank will shift its lending to expressways, rail, higher education and renewable pow...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will progressively move to tax capital in the future and reduce dependence of taxing less rich p...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's largest beer maker that has seen sales fall as taxes on soft alcohol were raised in quick succ...
ECONOMYNEXT - State owned enterprise Lak Sathosa, which is propped up at a cost to the people with Treasury support has ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's budget deficit has topped 690 billion rupees by November 2016, higher than a revised out-turn ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has to trim its runaway budget deficit "urgently" to and raise more taxes, the International Mon...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has earned 232 billion rupees from vehicle taxes in 2015, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake sai...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s desire to get a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicates the is...
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