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Every time the US engaged in bad policy Sri Lanka was hit
Sri Lanka should impose counterparty limits to liquidity tools and charge a premium
central bank essentially earns money to pay salaries essentially from seigniorage
A positive inflation target denies private sector productivity gains to the poor
By the 1950s academics in US and UK had rejected economics of Hume, Ricardo and Smith, becoming branches without a tree
There are several red flags and one green one
In Sri Lanka, indoctrination and hate targeting communities not considered to be the 'core-nation' as defined in ethno-r...
The central bank should phase out term repo opeations to make the lower policy corridor active
Sri Lanka's Central Bank which has printed tens of billions of rupees in 2018 to boost economic activity artificially ju...
Sri Lanka is going from boom-bust to bust-bust in this credit cycle despite the injection of excess demand into the econ...
Sri Lanka's toiling workers in the private sector who stand on their own feet are an unfortunate lot, caught between a n...
In 2018 instability generated by an inconsistent monetary policy framework not only killed a nascent economic recovery t...
Sri Lanka's United National Party has well and truly lost its reputation for economic management during three and a half...
There are pronouncements that Sri Lanka is like Greece from both sides of the political divide, but that is not correct.
Fischer said if Ecuador has asked, IMF would have said it was not possible to dollarize as pre-conditions were not there
Sri Lanka's permanent currency depreciation worsened by periods of greater weakness is putting the country in danger
| 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 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Ethno-religious fascist forces are again in the ascendancy in Sri Lanka helped by an economic downturn triggered by mone...
Sri Lanka's Central Bank is forced to collect forex reserves to be able to pay off government debt when necessary and me...
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Corruption in Sri Lanka's governments is partly due to the lack of an independent public service and permanent secretari...
Sri Lanka's central bank and policymakers of the United National Party sowed the wind from 2015, printing money to destr...
Classical liberal economists have long argued that free trade leads to peace and economic nationalism and protectionism ...
Sri Lanka's credit is now slowing (compared to total deposits raised), allowing the central bank to easily purchase doll...
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Sri Lanka's new trade policy published in the ministry of development strategies and international trade says a lot of h...
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