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A central bank whose net foreign assets go negative loses its ability to provide convertibility
Surrender requirement tightened despite steady fall in reserves
Chicken farmers have been facing higher feed costs
Balancing Act
The National Consumer Price Index jumped 3.1 percent in during the month of Januar
In August foreign assets turned negative (reserve liabilities exceeded assets) by around 400 million US dollars
Sri Lanka has extended a deadline for Coronavirus credit relief for Coronavirus affected businesses from a central bank ...
Sri Lanka has printed more money in the week ending April 30 after under-selling Treasury bills at the weekly auction, o...
Sri Lanka’s economy is among the worst affected by the current COVID 19 crisis, according to a ranking published by th...
Sri Lanka's government finances which had started to deteriorate before a Coronavirus pandemic, had been compounded with...
A key domestic asset stock of Sri Lanka' central bank went up by over 8 billion rupees to 291 billion rupees on April 24...
Fitch Ratings had downgraded Sri Lanka to 'B-' with a negative outlook, as the country cut value added tax in January a...
Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved a 400 million US dollar swap line with the Reserve Bank of India, co-cabin...
Sri Lanka's domestic industries hit by import control that came in the wake of currency pressure should appeal to the Fi...
The International Monetary Fund has approved a 28.9 million US dollar Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) for the Indian Ocean i...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 365.000 | 377.4967 |
| UK Pound | 467.5760 | 467.1937 |
| Euro | 403.6233 | 400.9370 |
| Aus Dollar | 269.0664 | 270.5633 |
| Yen | 2.9308 | 2.8886 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 4.6485 | 4.6497 |
| Korea Won | 0.2797 | 0.2801 |
| Oman Rial | 935.0528 | 935.0528 |
| Saudi Riyal | 95.9744 | 95.9718 |
| UAE Dirham | 98.0112 | 98.0112 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,669.73 | 5.52% |
| CSE All Share | 8,156.45 | 5.18% |
| Turnover Rs million | 2,180,675,756 | 1,193,171,490 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 21.10 | 20.83 |
| 6-m bill | 21.68 | 21.71 |
| 12-m bill | 22.39 | 22.41 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.89 | 21.27 |
| 8-yr bond | 21.78 | 21.60 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 14.50 | 14.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 14.50 | 14.50 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
About 60 percent of Sri Lanka's companies would be hit from fall in the rupee, Fitch Ratings said while imports control ...
Sri Lanka has sold 174.3 million US dollars in March 2020 to defend a soft-peg with the US dollar after printing money, ...
A 29 million US dollar program for the Indian Ocean tourist paradise of Maldives will go to the board of the Internatio...
Sri Lanka's rupee closed around 191.50/192.00 to the US dollar after spot deals resumed late on Friday and bond yields e...
Sri Lanka will allow inputs for export industries despite an import ban, a top official said, after import controls wer...
Sri Lanka is in talks with the International Monetary Fund are in talks for a program under its Rapid Finance Instrument...
Sri Lanka has cut the bank rate, the final lender of last resort facility available to banks that face runs, to 10 perce...
The International Monetary Fund has said Sri Lanka's gross domestic product would contract 0.5 percent n 2020, down 4.0...
South Asian nations of Afghanistan, Nepal and 23 other African and small island nations will be given debt relief for th...
Sri Lanka-based LOLC group said, a holding company in Singapore had had received 422 million dollars from the sale of th...
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