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Parallel exchange markets had developed officially and unofficially in money printing non-credible pegged regimes
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Banks managing outflows within inflows, while giving priority to essential and urgent imports
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Overnight borrowing at Rs45bn after the outright injection
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The food and non-alcoholic beverages sub-index was up 10.3 percent from a year earlier.
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The cash margin is removed from today
No change will be made to personal foreign currency accounts,
Sri Lanka is has 'pretty much' completed a transition to a flexible inflation targeting regime, Central Bank Governor I...
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In 2019 Sri Lanka is suffering an output shock and credit contraction after a steep currency collapse from operating a '...
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Sri Lanka's inflation edged up to 3.4 percent in August 2019, from 3.3 percent as month earlier data from the state stat...
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Sri Lanka's central bank printed 2 billion rupees at for 315 days at 7.94 percent, and 264 million rupees at 7.90 percen...
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Sajith Premadasa, who is pushing to be the presidential candidate for Sri Lanka's United National Party said he wanted t...
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Foreign investors sold 13 billion rupees of bonds in the week to August 21, accelerating a weakening of the rupee that b...
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A drop in excess liquidity earlier in August around the time large scale money printing from lender of last resort windo...
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Sri Lanka has cut its policy interest rate 50 basis points to 7.0 percent shortly after unusual volatility in the aggreg...
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Sri Lanka's nationwide inflation edged up to 2.2 percent in July 2019 after slowing down in the two previous months, the...
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Sri Lanka's central bank has injected 2.76 billion rupees in permanent money and is lending new money to the banking sys...
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| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 201.0530 | 201.9442 |
| UK Pound | 273.9247 | 274.7249 |
| Euro | 228.2856 | 228.6917 |
| Aus Dollar | 145.4317 | 145.2585 |
| Yen | 1.7595 | 1.7610 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 2.7009 | 2.7080 |
| Korea Won | 0.1687 | 0.1694 |
| Oman Rial | 522.2088 | 524.5236 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.5941 | 53.8245 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.7373 | 54.9800 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 4,623.95 | 0.12% |
| CSE All Share | 13,462.39 | 0.04% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 2,191,558,044.10 | 5,566,542,126 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.91 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 8.18 | 8.12 |
| 12-m bill | 8.37 | 8.29 |
| 5-yr bond | 10.93 | 10.69 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.93 | 11.52 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 5.93 | 5.99 |
| Gilt Repo | 5.14 | 5.14 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's central bank is injecting billions of rupees (lending money) to the banking system the rate at which excess ...
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US claims that China is manipulating its currency is "purely political" amounts to an act war and is a repeat of false m...
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Sri Lanka's central bank has bought 129 million US dollars to peg the rupee to the US dollar with a strong side converti...
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Sri Lanka's gross official foreign reserves dropped 421 million US dollars during the month of July 2019 to end at 8,343...
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The People's Bank of China mopped up excess liquidity in money markets to prop up its now unstable 'flexible exchange ra...
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Dushni Weerakoon, an economist, has been appointed as a member of the Monetary Board, the central bank said.
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Sri Lanka' 12-month inflation eased to 4.0 percent in July 2019 from 4.2 percent in June the state statistics office sai...
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The US Federal Reserve, under intense pressure from President Donald Trump to stimulate the economy, on Wednesday cut th...
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Sri Lanka's inflation in the 12-months to June 2019 fell to 3.8 percent from 5.0 percent in May, but the consumer price ...
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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's nationwide inflation slowed down to 2.1 percent in June 2019 from 3.5 percent in May 2019, the...
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