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The inclusion of extensive macro-prudential laws is an admission that money is bad
A strike planned on March 01
IMF should stop the promotion of impossible trinity regimes with spurious claims to monetary policy independence
Call from Goh, Shenoy to provide sound money discarded in favour of depreciation, flexible regimes
High direct tax rates, capital consumption taxes, are not a substitute for monetary stability
Countries where inflationists cannot engage in macro-economic policy with money printing have low debt
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Sri Lanka had stability until July 2019 with cash withdrawn by the central bank to keep a soft-peg with the US dollar un...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...
| 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 | - | - |
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 the danger...
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...
Sri Lanka is on a recovery path, and this is the time when commercial bank credit picks up, the Central Bank cuts rates ...
With the rupee hitting new lows against the US dollar, driven by a REER-targeting devaluationist policy to hurt wage ear...
Corruption in Sri Lanka's governments is partly due to the lack of an independent public service and permanent secretari...
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