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Sri Lanka's nation-wide inflation in the 12-months to January 21 was measured at 3.7 percent, down from 4.6 percent in D...
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The question is often asked whether Sri Lanka do without an International Monetary Fund program. It is certainly possi...
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'Reserves to be buttressed with non-debt inflows'
Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation rose to a six-month high of 4.3 percent in March 2019 from a year earlier, data fro...
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Sri Lanka's Central Bank has cut its 7-day policy rate at which cash is injected by 50 basis points to 8.50 percent over...
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ECONOMYNEXT - The Central Bank of Sri Lanka will open a counter at its head office to issue coins to the general public,...
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ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's nation-wide inflation picked up to 2.4 percent in the 12 months to February 2019 from 1.2 perce...
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Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers have approved changes to the monetary law of the country to help the Central Bank condu...
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The Federal Reserve sent a strong signal the US economy is slowing, indicating Wednesday it will not raise the benchmark...
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Sri Lanka's gross domestic product edged marginally lower to 4,102 dollars per person in 2018 from a revised 4,104 dolla...
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Sri Lanka's gross official reserves dropped to 6,005 million US dollars in February 2019, down 147 million dollars from ...
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The International Monetary Fund is urging the Maldives to review its exchange rate peg, which had helped the country to ...
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A liquidity shortage stemming from interventions in forex markets made to enforce a soft-pegged exchange rate regime fel...
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| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 201.0455 | 200.5117 |
| UK Pound | 277.3121 | 277.2676 |
| Euro | 233.7456 | 233.8869 |
| Aus Dollar | 150.2614 | 151.2660 |
| Yen | 1.7625 | 1.7543 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 2.6854 | 2.6801 |
| Korea Won | 0.1705 | 0.1707 |
| Oman Rial | 522.2097 | 520.8231 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.6007 | 53.4541 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.7338 | 54.5885 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 3,572.70 | 0.54% |
| CSE All Share | 9,881.50 | 1.78% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 2,191,558,044.10 | 4,268,523 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.19 | 6.64 |
| 6-m bill | 7.31 | 6.80 |
| 12-m bill | 7.46 | 6.96 |
| 5-yr bond | 10.52 | 9.48 |
| 8-yr bond | 11.37 | 9.97 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 5.11 | 5.11 |
| Gilt Repo | 5.14 | 5.14 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka has reached a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund to extend an existing agreement and c...
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Sri Lanka has cut the statutory reserve ratio, 1.0 percent to 5.00 percent, helping fill liquidity shortages in the bank...
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ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's nation-wide inflation picked up to 1.2 percent in the 12 months to January 2019 from 0.4 percen...
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External conditions for the Sri Lanka rupee will be better in 2019, following a steep fall in 2018 and foreign investors...
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Sri Lanka's forex reserves had fallen to 6.1 billion US dollars in January 2019, down from 6.19 billion US dollars in De...
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ECONOMYNEXT – Consumer inflation in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo rose to a four-month high of 3.7 percent in Ja...
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Sri Lanka has slashed the volume of Treasury bill allowed to be held by foreign investor to 10 percent of total outstand...
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Sri Lanka's real effective exchange rate (REER) index has dropped below 100 amid a collapse of a soft-peg with the US do...
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ECONOMYNEXT – Nationwide inflation in Sri Lanka slowed to 0.4 percent in December 2018 from 1.0 percent in Novemb...
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Sri Lanka's central bank said it had received 90 billion rupees of Treasury bills (about 500 million US dollars) after f...
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