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The Eastern city of Batticaloa in Sri Lanka is one of the most multicultural and multi-lingual in the country, but is ri...
Sri Lanka's new car registrations fell to a 1,580 units in June 2019, down from 6,819 units in 2018, and a 7-year low in...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Laugfs Gas, which has diversified from a domestic cooking gas supplier to region...
Bad loan in Sri Lanka banking system grew to 4.8 percent of gross loans by June 2019, from 4.2 percent in March, though ...
Sri Lanka is planning to cut the embarkation tax on tourists by 10 US dollars to boost tourism in the wake of Easter Sun...
Sri Lanka has started making detailed designs for Colombo suburban electric trains adding an extra track to existing rai...
Many of Sri Lanka's private security firms are seeing a spike in demand which they cannot meet after Easter Sunday bombi...
ECONOMYNEXT- Chinese youth are acquiring a taste for Sri Lanka’s black tea, with shipments to China, mainly a gre...
Sri Lanka has built a linear park along the shore of a lake in the capital Colombo where more than 200 acres of land wil...
Sri Lanka's decision to privatize state-run plantations in the 1990s was correct, but not all of the new owners were run...
The second phase of Sri Lanka's central expressway from Colombo to Kandy is built by 16 local contractors is already 25 ...
Sri Lanka's central bank which is operating a non-credible pegged exchange rate with brief and violent swings to a float...
Sri Lanka is now in a quagmire of stagflation with inflation at 7.0 percent and growth at 4.0 percent, due to policy err...
Sri Lankan authorities have scrapped a “laptop dance†by school girls during the main Independence Day para...
Withholding tax will have to be deducted from listed corporate bonds which are in existence, a tax official said, raisin...
Sri Lanka will gradually move away from price controls, but wanted markets to function "freely" and "responsibly" to giv...
| 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 | - | - |
Demonetisation is always theft and its contradictory effect on the money supply, coupled with a negative confidence shoc...
Sri Lanka's government Tuesday resorted to the latest Donald Trump tactic of offering "alternative facts" to defend Arju...
Black-clad activists protesting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration smashed store and car windows in Washin...
Actress Meryl Streep turned a Golden Globe acceptance speech into a scathing attack on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka unveiled an industrial zone for Chinese investors amid protests from opposition politicians, mon...
Sri Lanka is in a period of dangerous policy drift with mediocre governance which is inherently unstable with the danger...
Sri Lanka's current administration began a drive to increase government revenues getting more taxes from the people, ins...
Sri Lanka's power regulator has warned of risks of power shortfalls in early 2017 amid weak rainfall and urged the state...
Vietnam's Vietjetair, the country's only private airline, a firm barely five years old and is growing at a blistering pa...
Profits at Sri Lanka's publicly traded companies rose 11 percent to Rs225 billion in the 12 months ending September 2016...
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