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Food prices go up due to a combination of government controls and also money printing
To impose protective duties on foreign corn is infamous, it is to speculate on the famine of peoples
Trade cannot cause monetary troubles. Monetary troubles are caused by flawed 'monetary policy'.
Sri Lanka can cut or remove policy floor but should not print money for a mid corridor or single rate
Advocata Institute article examines recurring instability in rice market
Regional Centre for Strategic Studies discusses research priorities for Global South
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Sri Lanka needs to look at issues in a rational manner if it is to build a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation and e...
Trade controls are coming back, with the Prebisch Springer hypothesis
Is Sri Lanka the world capital for sperm whales in terms of super-pod frequency, density and viewability?
Sri Lanka’s continuing anti-Muslim policies are shameful as we as heirs to a civilization that goes back millennia are...
The proposed regulatory mechanism may or may not become a reality, and the fears expressed about it may well be exaggera...
Any hope of inclusive economic growth for Sri Lanka’s post covid recovery can only then be achieved if we utilize Mic...
Sri Lanka was at one time talking about trying to be a Singapore, and then a Malaysia, and now it is talking about tryin...
In an era when almost everyone attempts to disseminate information through a plethora of platforms available, the role o...
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - |
In the parliament last week, Vasudeva Nanayakkara said Sri Lanka doesn’t need a vaccine and that we’ve other ways to...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's charisma and political capital needs to be used wisely by the government to deal with...
A year is a long time. This year has been longer than most. While that is not an indictment of the incumbent government ...
A fatal trend of non-transparent decision making was set early on in the Covid crisis. At the root of the problem was th...
As the second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic continues to engulf the country, and the public is increasingly showing its ...
A year into President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's presidency, we are in the midst of a raging pandemic, with an ailing economy ...
Though increasing numbers of women wanted and were working in super markets and nursing homes they faced many challenges...
Local authorities in the Kegalle district which are seeing spikes in Coronavirus cases are appealing for curfew, border ...
Sri Lanka should build pandemic prevention and recovery initiatives in future urban planning, a Colombo-based think tank...
In Sri Lanka when the elected ruling class tries to amend the constitution and amass greater power at the expense of ind...
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