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Sri Lanka's Mercedes Benz dealer Diesel and Motor Engineering Plc (DIMO) has reduced margins to absorb part of a steep c...
Sri Lanka's vehicle registration have fallen 18 percent in April from a month earlier to 28,599 units, in the wake of th...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Railways has taken delivery of the first batches of new container carrier wagons and oil wagons ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's supermarket supply chains are under stress after the Easter Sunday bombings with labour shorta...
The minimum fare had gone up from 17 to 20 rupees
"We can’t even be sure of the exact number of requested waivers as we have received many in a short period.’’
In 2015, 161 persons had committed suicide by jumping in front of moving trains, up from 141, a year earlier, while repo...
Sri Lanka's vehicle registrations rose to 41,798 units in August from 35,775 in July, with motorcycles picking up to 29,...
Sri Lanka is to negotiate with four construction firms nominated by China to build a 73.9 kilometre expressway to Ratnap...
ECONOMYNEXT – Japan has agreed to provide concessional funding to build a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Sri ...
ECONOMYNEXT – India has approved a fresh loan of US$318 million to Sri Lanka’s railway department to upgra...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is studying the possibility of creating an ‘economic corrido...
India is interested in building a rail track to the eastern port city of Trincomalee which may cost 300 million dollars ...
Sri Lanka's motor cycle registrations rebounded in May while small cars also recovered following a tax hike, data showed...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will go ahead with a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system for public transport in the proposed...
Sri Lanka will revise a price formula under which bus fares are revised upward annually, following representation by ope...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.3603 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 440.9424 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 368.4879 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0805 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.4342 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.5474 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2492 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 863.2287 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5586 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.4874 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
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| 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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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will build the first light rail transit (LRT) line in Colombo to ease traffic congestion with fu...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is to borrow almost $90 million from Exim Bank of China to fund a consultancy contract to...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is to use savings from a Chinese loan to build a section of its Southern Expressway to im...
ECONOMYNEXT – A preference for Light Rail Transit (LRT) over Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in a plan to modernise publi...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's vehicle registrations were subdued in April 2016, continuing a trend seen from January, with 3...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has doubled the fine for passengers caught travelling without tickets on the state railwa...
ECONOMYNEXT – Operational loses at Sri Lanka’s state-run railway fell 30 percent to Rs7.7 billion in 2015 ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka needs “immediate improvements†to public transport to curb the economic loss ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has given contracts to China National Technical Import and Export Corporation under the S...
(Reuters) - India's Mahindra group sees northern Europe as the next market for its electric cars after choosing Britain ...
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