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Monetary instability and forex shortages continue
Money printing creates forex and fuel shortages
Duty-free complex by the fourth quarter
Minister urges citizens to start growing vegetables in flow pots
Investments goods imports plunged 42 percent to 188.2 million US dollars in October as private credit contracted
Sri Lanka has been focusing on boosting exports to come out of economic crisis
Sex-workers, homeless and migrant workers without a fixed abode are increasingly at risk of contracting COVID 19 and are...
Sri Lanka's B2 rating has been placed rating watch by Moody's a rating agency for possible downgrade but the agency woul...
Sri Lanka seafood exports are seeing strong demand and higher prices during a global Coronavirus crisis though air frei...
Power supply to about 7,000 households in the Puttalam district was disrupted last night due to outages caused by strong...
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...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has told Secretaries to Ministries to restart state and private sector services in the next...
Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank is hosting an online discussion with top officials of Sri Lanka's export ...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 285.6164 | 283.8763 |
| UK Pound | 353.8887 | 352.3039 |
| Euro | 304.1967 | 302.2424 |
| Aus Dollar | 187.2054 | 183.5776 |
| Yen | 2.0304 | 2.0303 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5460 | 3.5400 |
| Korea Won | 0.2234 | 0.2216 |
| Oman Rial | 759.2190 | 759.5857 |
| Saudi Riyal | 77.9349 | 77.9716 |
| UAE Dirham | 79.5868 | 79.6253 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,494.26 | 0.28% |
| CSE All Share | 8,766.60 | 0.15% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,335,527,883 | 1,335,527,883 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 24.37 | 24.64 |
| 6-m bill | 24.00 | 24.24 |
| 12-m bill | 22.03 | 22.37 |
| 5-yr bond | 24.67 | 24.98 |
| 8-yr bond | 23.33 | 23.82 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
The Group of 20 nations announced support Wednesday for a temporary halt to debt payments by the world's poorest nations...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is leaning towards the immediate resumption of day-to-day economic activities at provincial...
Sri Lanka has given the go-ahead for tea, coconut, rubber, pepper, Cinnamon and other crop producers to resume harvestin...
Sri Lanka's National Medical Regulatory Authority, a price control agency for drugs which has extensive powers to disrup...
South Asian nations of Afghanistan, Nepal and 23 other African and small island nations will be given debt relief for th...
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank should give relief to debtor nations which can be channeled to funds ...
Sri Lanka-based LOLC group said, a holding company in Singapore had had received 422 million dollars from the sale of th...
The government of Sri Lanka has purchased a total of 904,010kg of vegetables under a programme initiated by the presiden...
Sri Lanka's economy may contract as much as 3.0 percent in 2020, the World Bank has said as a Coronavirus crisis hit ex...
Pope Francis on Sunday called for the reduction or forgiveness of the debt of poor nations as the Coronavirus pandemic d...
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