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Sri Lanka's president asks Chinese entrepreneurs to view Sri Lanka as strategic hub for emerging green, digital ventures
Agriculture minister asks farmers to diversify into crops that have export demand instead of low yield cultivation
economic ties with Sri Lanka will be enhanced by the signing of a renewed Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement
Banned items imported earlier help at ports could be cleared at extra 15-pct duty
China hit with a 125-percent tax
The Company holds 10.83% of the total shareholding of DIMO as at date
Sri Lanka's imports rose 16.4 percent in October 2016, from a year earlier to 1.9 billion US dollars with transport equi...
Sri Lanka's Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake urged private traders to import rice quickly after import taxes were slas...
Sri Lanka has cut an import tax that has kept domestic rice prices high pushing up food costs of the poor, and restricte...
U.S. President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday,...
The new U.S. administration of President Donald Trump said on Friday its trade strategy to protect American jobs would s...
New Zealand and Sri Lanka will open diplomatic posts in each other's nations and are considering a free trade agreement,...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had urged Sri Lanka to help rejuvenate the moribund South Asia Association for Re...
Domestic non-tariff barriers are hindering growth of Sri Lanka’s agricultural exports more than tariffs in overse...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has met Chinese President Xi Jinping at Davos, who has slammed import pr...
Coca-Cola, a US-based beverage firm, has met Sri Lanka's finance minister to sound out the possibility of setting up a r...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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Sri Lankan tea brands are losing their share of the tea market in Russia, one of the main buyers of Ceylon tea, a broker...
The people of Sri Lanka has won human rights, democracy as a result of the actions of the current administration and the...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s trade gap fell 12% to 645 million US dollars in September 2016 from a year ago a...
ECONOMYNEXT – The European Commission Wednesday said it proposed the European Union remove import duties on Sri L...
Sri Lanka's Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva had talks with Singapore officials over a proposed tripartite trade ...
Ganeshan Wignaraja, an advisor at the Asian Development Bank, will deliver a lecture on export-led growth, hosted by Adv...
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka needs to reduce non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to increase agricultural exports which are sign...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan companies have investment opportunities in Tajikistan’s hydropower and apparel se...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Exporters Association of Sri Lanka (EASL) has urged the government to retain an existing paperl...
ECONOMYNEXT – A new Sri Lanka - USA Business Council launched Tuesday will help promote trade and investment betw...
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