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Sri Lankan firms can now raise funds in foreign currencies through listing at Colombo Stock Exchange
The key stock index has fallen 6.8 percent so far in February on forex, economic concerns
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...
Sri Lanka has pumped 240 billion rupees in liquidity into the banking system an official said of which 140 billion rupee...
| 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 | - | - |
Sri Lanka's forex reserves were down by 412.5 million US dollars to 7,525 million by end March 2020 from 7,938.24 milli...
Sri Lanka will give an incentive package to anyone who repatriates dollars held abroad to the island in the next three m...
Sri Lanka has requested a 400 million dollar swap line from the Reserve Bank of India under an arrangement available for...
Sri Lanka has tightened controls on foreign exchange outflows for three months as the rupee slid in the wake of rate cut...
Yields on Sri Lanka's sovereign bonds which fell sharply from record lows after Treasury Secretary S R Attygalle said th...
Sri Lanka has made another helicopter drop of cash pushing up excess money in the banking system with monetary instabili...
Sri Lanka's central bank has detailed the use of a 50 billion rupee facility for Coronavirus hit business set up along t...
Sri Lanka has relaxed all restrictions on foreign currency inflows while its Central Bank issued a global appeal to Sri ...
Sri Lanka will ban all non-essential imports except for fuel and medicine and launch a drive to grow vegetables, Co-cab...
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