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Sri Lanka rupee appreciation explained
Mass sovereign default episode in the 1980s also followed a decade of bad money from the Fed
Converted budget support loans and conflicting PCs can lead to new external instability, discredit and derail reforms
The new law appears to have brought back policy conflicts dropped in a previous amendment
Deficits do not rise much in the year that a currency crisis is triggered, but in the stabilization year
Targeting GDP with easy money dates back to Scottish Mercantilist John Law and fully flexible policy to James Steuart.
Sri Lanka is facing a monumental state failure after denying economic and civil freedoms for decades
The question is often asked whether Sri Lanka do without an International Monetary Fund program. It is certainly possi...
Sri Lanka is heading for one of the biggest economic challenges in its history in 2021, with the central bank printing m...
Trade controls are coming back, with the Prebisch Springer hypothesis
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 Sri Lanka when the elected ruling class tries to amend the constitution and amass greater power at the expense of ind...
Sri Lanka's monetary instability, the rising cost of living, falling living standards and the resultant strikes, revolut
The three fetters that shackle Sri Lanka's economic growth, peace and general happiness; monetary instability, regime un...
While Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil Tigers in 2009 and the Coronavirus in 2020 – the battle is not yet over – it is r...
Sri Lanka's per person gross domestic product had dropped 227 dollars to 3,852 dollars in 2019 after a the latest curren...
| 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 | - | - |
When the government changes ground rules and conditions or the operating regime suddenly, like in Sri Lanka, it is very ...
Sri Lanka will face credit downgrades and possible sovereign default of dollar debt unless the highly unstable discretio...
Sri Lanka had stability until July 2019 with cash withdrawn by the central bank to keep a soft-peg with the US dollar un...
Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera started a price formula in 2018 May just as fuel price started to spike, but the Ce...
The collapse of Sri Lanka's soft-pegged rupee, partly due to policy errors of the Central Bank and partly due to the fal...
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...
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