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Global un-employment set to rise
Food prices up 75.8-pct over year and 118.6-pct since inflationary policy began in current cycle
Central bank gets ACU dollars to peg and also force purchase dollars through a surrender rule to prevent a float
Many banks NOPs negative in worst soft-peg
In June the central bank had to intervene and us moral suasion to stop a flexible exchange panic
Sri Lanka forex market interventions to defend a soft-peg with the US dollar had picked up to 72.25 million dollars in J...
Sri Lanka has posted a 2.3 billion US dollar balance of payments deficit in 2020, down from a surplus of 377 million dol...
Sri Lanka will continue import controls as long as balance of payments problems persist, under an 'alternative' economic...
Sri Lanka had recorded a surplus in the external current account in the third quarter of 2020 and is expecting a margina...
Sri Lanka is in talks for up to 5 billion US dollars of funding through swaps and loans outside of a program with the In...
Sri Lanka's gross official reserves were at 4.8 billion US dollars in by end January 2021 Central Bank Governor W D Laks...
Sri Lanka's import controls which has left the economy mired in a plethora of regulations does not solve underlying econ...
Ethiopia had been downgraded to 'CCC' from 'B' by Fitch Ratings after it applied for 'Paris Club' debt relief having pri...
Sri Lanka should consider an agreement with the International Monetary Fund and pre-emptive extensions of capital and i...
Sri Lanka has repaid a 400 million US dollar swap line from the Reserve Bank of India after six months, as an agreement ...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 305.1018 | 305.3339 |
| UK Pound | 386.9523 | 387.2371 |
| Euro | 330.8712 | 332.1141 |
| Aus Dollar | 201.0018 | 201.4980 |
| Yen | 2.0266 | 2.0278 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.6453 | 3.5932 |
| Korea Won | 0.2342 | 0.2292 |
| Oman Rial | 780.3569 | 769.4973 |
| Saudi Riyal | 80.1114 | 78.9849 |
| UAE Dirham | 81.7952 | 80.6569 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
| CSE All Share | 9,073.41 | 0.65% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,591,766,524.95 | 1,029,335,694.32 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 21.72 | 21.79 |
| 6-m bill | 19.55 | 20.31 |
| 12-m bill | 17.72 | 19.28 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.00 | 22.53 |
| 8-yr bond | 19.42 | 20.55 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Borrowings from Sri Lanka's banking system after a tax cut at the beginning of the year and a Coronavirus pandemic had r...
Sri Lanka's 12-month consumer inflation rose 3.0 percent in January 2021 from a year earlier in the capital Colombo, slo...
Sri Lanka's rupee should be around 185 to the US dollar State Minister for Money and Capital Markets Nivard Cabraal has ...
Sri Lanka will change several orders and regulations issued under the country's exchange control law, involving capital ...
Sri Lanka has barred commercial banks from selling or buying foreign exchange for three months as the currency came unde...
Excess liquidity in Sri Lanka's money markets, which was driven up to around 20 percent of reserve money under modern mo...
Sri Lanka's excess liquidity in money markets, generated mostly from unprecedented money printing triggering forex short...
Sri Lanka is seeking foreign exchange support from partners who willing to help on a 'non-interventionist' basis and ne...
A 10 billion yuan swap (about 1.5 billion US dollars) with the People's Bank of China could be concluded as early as two...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it was holding its policy corridor at the current 4.5 to 5.5 percent amid negative forward...
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