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No request has been made to return to the central bank
“What the international community is looking for is long-term policy credibility and sustainability."
Until an adequate macroeconomic policy framework is in place, the World Bank does not plan to offer new financing
Senior creditors, central bank obligations to be serviced
The law will also make macro-prudential surveillance formally under the bank.
Sri Lanka's supermarket sales have shot up amid after a few new cases of Coronavirus were reported in the country, but o...
Three leaders discuss how the stimulus package impacts their businesses, the economy and consumers..
Sri Lanka's pharmaceuticals firms said there is no shortage of drugs in the country and urged the public not to engage i...
Former MP Harsha De Silva is saying that the government can take advantage of historically low interest rates to take th...
The government has failed to decrease fuel prices when it could’ve easily matched the dramatic drop in prices globally...
Sri Lanka' credit to government from commercial banks had surged to 147.8 billion rupees in January 2020, up from 34.4 b...
Sri Lanka's forex reserves had grown to 7,948 million US dollars in January 2020, from 7512 million US dollars ahead of ...
Sri Lanka has announced that 45,585 graduate mainly from state universities who failed to get a job in productive secto...
Sri Lanka's cabinet has given the nod to negotiate 10-year US dollar and Renminbi denominated loans from China Developme...
In Sri Lanka, 73.6% of working-age men are in the labour market but only 36.6% of working-age women. This 37% gap betwee...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 283.8763 | 290.6745 |
| UK Pound | 352.3039 | 358.1710 |
| Euro | 302.2424 | 309.9647 |
| Aus Dollar | 183.5776 | 188.4064 |
| Yen | 2.0303 | 188.4064 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5400 | 3.5935 |
| Korea Won | 0.2216 | 0.2248 |
| Oman Rial | 759.5857 | 770.5802 |
| Saudi Riyal | 77.9716 | 79.1149 |
| UAE Dirham | 79.6253 | 80.7822 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,470.42 | 2.02 % |
| CSE All Share | 8,668.40 | 1.59 % |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,335,527,883 | 575,340,332 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 24.64 | 24.60 |
| 6-m bill | 24.24 | 24.36 |
| 12-m bill | 22.37 | 22.36 |
| 5-yr bond | 24.98 | 24.79 |
| 8-yr bond | 23.82 | 23.16 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 14.00 | 16.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 14.00 | 16.50 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
China's exports plummeted in the first two months of this year on the back of a coronavirus epidemic that forced busines...
Sri Lanka is expecting to lose 500 million US dollars of apparel exports from March to June 2020, as an outbreak of Cor...
Red tape is hindering the registration of small businesses at Divisional Secretariats in Sri Lanka, oppressing the poor ...
Sri Lanka is expecting 3.5-4.0 percent growth in gross domestic product in 2020, amid a hit from Coronavirus while infla...
A steep jump in excess liquidity in Sri Lanka's interbank money markets came from a transfer of profits from the central...
ECONOMYNEXT-The Finance Ministry has increased the minimum guaranteed price of the government for big onions from Rs 60 ...
Sri Lanka plans to connect 150,000 new houses to pipe borne water in the first two quarters of 2020 by lowering initial ...
Sri Lanka will execute an action plan to expand access to banking, payment services, insurance and pensions, co-cabinet ...
Sri Lanka will set up a holding company owned by the Treasury, Bank of Ceylon and Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation to con...
Sri Lanka is making good progress with a loans of more than a billion US dollars loan from China Development Bank, which...
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