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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...
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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...
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Sri Lanka's central bank which is operating a non-credible pegged exchange rate with brief and violent swings to a float...
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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...
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Sri Lanka's government Tuesday resorted to the latest Donald Trump tactic of offering "alternative facts" to defend Arju...
| 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 | - | - |
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