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Past projections have been wildly off target when money was printed for 'stop-go' policies
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Sri Lanka's private credit from commercial banks grew by 112.2 billion rupees in March 2021
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he food sub-index was up 9.0 percent during the past 12 months.
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The state will direct the fertilizer subsidy to cover crop losses
The inverted interest rates differential had already turned forward exchange rate premiums negative
Targeting an output gap with printed money is not in line with the original intentions of Sri Lanka's Monetary Law Act a...
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Sri Lanka has printed 60 billion rupees this week taking the central bank's Treasury bill stock to 904 billion rupees by...
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Sri Lanka is in a mission to the Middle East to secure funding to buffer the island's external payments, Central Bank Go...
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Sri Lanka's forex reserves dropped to 4.1 billion US dollars in March 2021 from 4,583 million dollars in February, the c...
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Sri Lanka's central bank said it is maintaining its historic low interest rates as foreign reserves continued to drop am...
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Sri Lanka has failed to sell 58 percent of a 45 billion rupee Treauries auction amid price ceilings above which unsold b...
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Sri Lanka could get up to 800 million US dollars worth reserves from the International Monetary Fund as a part of a new ...
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Sri Lanka has settled half of a billion US dollar repo transaction with the Federal Reserve, executed last year official...
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US inflation is likely to go as much as 5 percent with broad money supply beginning to grow at unprecedented rates and F...
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Sri Lanka's banks borrowed 64.6 billion rupees overnight on Wednesday up from 46 billion rupees a day earlier, keeping c...
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| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 199.5695 | 199.5817 |
| UK Pound | 281.7522 | 281.8593 |
| Euro | 242.1377 | 242.3121 |
| Aus Dollar | 155.9436 | 156.4721 |
| Yen | 1.8334 | 1.8328 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 2.7185 | 2.7143 |
| Korea Won | 0.1778 | 0.1784 |
| Oman Rial | 518.3758 | 518.4142 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.2143 | 53.2175 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.3320 | 54.3353 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,843.40 | 0.18% |
| CSE All Share | 7,143.38 | 0.11% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 1,167,831 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 5.07 | 5.04 |
| 6-m bill | 5.11 | 5.09 |
| 12-m bill | 5.16 | 5.15 |
| 5-yr bond | 7.38 | 7.12 |
| 8-yr bond | 7.87 | 7.71 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 4.65 | 4.65 |
| Gilt Repo | 4.68 | 4.67 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's 12-month consumer price inflation accelerated to 4.1 percent in March 2021 from 3.3 percent in February amid...
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Sri Lanka's Colombo Port City Special Economic Zone will have offshore banks for which regulations will be made by the P...
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Sri Lanka's Colombo Port City Special Economic Zone would be dollarized, according to a draft law for the area, protecti...
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Steve Hanke, Maya MacGuineas, Adam Posen, Tyler Cowen and Heidi Shierholz have been named among top influencers of econo...
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Sri Lanka is controlling the price of the rupee with great difficulty and the it could fall to as much 300 to 350 to the...
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Net excess liquidity in Sri Lanka's money markets dropped to 100 billion rupees on March 23, levels not seen since June ...
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The International Monetary Fund usually asks for upfront currency depreciation, which then brings more problems to the c...
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Sri Lanka has signed a 10 billion yuan (about 1.5 billion US dollars) swap deal with China for three years, the central ...
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Sri Lanka rupee closed weaker on Monday at 199/199.50 against the one-week dollar, while bond yields were flat/down deal...
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Sri Lanka and Bangladesh central banks will conduct talks over a swap arrangement, a joint communiqué said after a visi...
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