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“When the pandemic was emerging, some countries were on a strong economic footing."
Anomaly in the forward market due to low rates
Forex shortages are a problem associated with pegged exchange rates which do not allow short term rates to float
India is also recognised as a key investment partner of Sri Lanka
"The government’s goal is to solve the housing needs of low-income families living in rural and urban areas"
GSP+ is an annual trade concession worth over 500 million US dollars
Sri Lanka's external debt repayments are 4.8 billion US dollars for 2020, and payments for the first half of the year is...
Sri Lanka's cabinet has cleared a 250 million US dollars mixed development by an foreign investor who will also pay 43 m...
Sri Lanka's new administration will have to decide whether to pass the new central bank law that has been drawn up, but...
Sri Lanka will aim for forex reserve collection and exchange rate stability and will engage with the International Monet...
Sri Lanka's new central Bank Governor W D Lakshman said he wanted find alternatives to neo-liberal policies that the cou...
Sri Lanka is expecting 4.0 to 4.5 percent economic growth in 2020 and inflation below 4.0 percent and a higher 6.5 perc...
Sri Lanka' central bank said it is keeping policy rates, saying market rates have room to fall and the government has an...
Sri Lanka's national inflation in November 2019 was 4.1 percent from a year earlier, slowing down from 5.6 percent in Oc...
The price of potatoes should come down in the marketplace as the government has cut the special commodity levy imposed o...
Sri Lanka's commercial banks deposited 53 billion rupees in excess cash at the central bank on December 23, 2019 sharply...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 328.6083 | 334.9328 |
| UK Pound | 404.2407 | 411.1914 |
| Euro | 358.1529 | 359.7836 |
| Aus Dollar | 221.9914 | 225.8025 |
| Yen | 2.5191 | 2.5583 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.8504 | 4.0593 |
| Korea Won | 0.2471 | 0.2566 |
| Oman Rial | 824.2395 | 870.3981 |
| Saudi Riyal | 84.4779 | 89.2088 |
| UAE Dirham | 86.3927 | 91.2333 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,722.94 | -1.64% |
| CSE All Share | 9,395.98 | -1.38% |
| Turnover Rs million | 3,437,599,160 | 1,512,188,680 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 26.95 | 28.13 |
| 6-m bill | 26.26 | 27.13 |
| 12-m bill | 25.26 | 26.11 |
| 5-yr bond | 26.01 | 25.82 |
| 8-yr bond | 24.73 | 24.73 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka has cut a protectionist tax of 50 rupees a kilogram on imported potatoes, slapped to boost profit of the farmi...
Sri Lanka's vehicle registrations fell to 24,472 units in November 2019, the lowest since the June 2013 amid a collapsed...
Sri Lanka has scope to cut rates, Senior Economic Advisor to the Finance Minister Nivard Cabraal said after the governme...
State-sanctioned playlists will replace music heard on private and state-owned buses as the National Transport Commissio...
W D Lakshman, a former Colombo University Vice Chancellor, has been appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ...
W D Lakshman, a former professor at Colombo University has been appointed the governor of Sri Lanka's central bank, offi...
Sri Lanka is expected to make an announcement on the central bank governor soon, after Indrajit Coomaraswamy stepped dow...
Sri Lanka's sweeping tax cuts are are fiscal stimulus will close a "persistent output gap", seen in recent years and tra...
Tobacco use among men have fallen for the first time globally, showing a powerful shift in trends, the World Health Orga...
Issuing an extraordinary gazette yesterday, the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) announced Maximum Retail Prices (MRPs) ...
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