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(Shanghai) REUTERS: Dolce & Gabbana’s co-founders asked for China’s ‘forgiveness’ yesterday, trying to salvage a crucial market for the luxury brand after a backlash against its latest advertising campaign.
BANGKOK (AFP) - A ferry disaster that killed dozens of Chinese tourists in Thailand earlier this year has sent visitor numbers plunging from the kingdom’s single largest market.
HONG KONG (AFP) - Fresh fears over headwinds facing the global economy saw Asian stocks plunge into the red yesterday, in light holiday trading after US markets were closed for Thanksgiving.
JUBA (AFP) - South Africa and South Sudan signed an outline agreement yesterday that could see Pretoria invest around US$1 billion (880 million euros) in South Sudan’s struggling oil industry. The agreement, whic
GENEVA (AFP) - The world’s biggest economies slapped import restrictions on nearly half a trillion dollars’ worth of trade over the past six months, the World Trade Organization said this week voicing “serious concern”. Forty
REUTERS - The Sri Lankan rupee fell to an all-time low of 179.95 per dollar yesterday, as Moody’s downgrade of the country’s credit rating in the wake of a political crisis saw more investors dump rupee
The Finance and Economic Affairs Ministry has assured lenders that Sri Lanka will honour its dues during the financial year beginning from January 1, 2019, despite the current political impasse triggered by the sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickrem
The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) is to conduct a planned full-day of trading from the disaster recovery site using ATS Version 7 Disaster Recovery Solution today. The CSE in a brief statement said the exercise will be an industry-wide activity
(Colombo) AFP: Sri Lanka has abandoned plans to raise money through sovereign bonds and will pursue badly-needed revenue elsewhere after Moody’s downgraded its credit rating amid political turmoil, an official said yesterday. President Maithrip
(Geneva) AFP: The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said yesterday, warning that the time to act was running out. Ahead of the COP 24 Climate
(Tokyo) REUTERS: Nissan Motor’s board voted yesterday to oust Carlos Ghosn from his post as chairman following his shock arrest this week, public broadcaster NHK reported, marking the
Sri Lanka’s nationwide inflation measured by the year-on-year (YoY) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) in October decelerated to 0.1 percent— the lowest point since Jan
A day after the country rating was downgraded, Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) yesterday downgraded the long-term ratings of three large banks in line with the sovereign rating over challenging operating conditions, exacerbated by the
The Board of Investment (BOI) yesterday announced that it has signed US $60.86 million worth investment agreements with local and foreign investors in apparel, logistics, plant tissue culture and packaging sectors.
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee fell to an all-time low of 179.00 per dollar yesterday, a day after Moody’s downgraded the country’s credit rating, as a political crisis worsens a rout in the currency.
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Internationa l Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it had delayed discussions on Sri Lanka’s next loan tranche due to the country’s political crisis.
The Central Bank yesterday hit back at Moody’s Investors Service over the recent credit rating downgrade, stating that the rating agency’s decision is unwarranted and unjustifiable as it is purely based on heightened political uncertainty
Delivering the first major blow to crisis-ridden Sri Lanka’s economy, Moody’s Investors Service yesterday downgraded the Government of Sri Lanka’s foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured rating
(Beijing) REUTERS: China believes the Maldives will make the ‘correct choice’ to continue with a bilateral free trade deal, a foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday, after a Maldives politician said the tiny nation would pull out of th
Sri Lanka expects a bumper harvest of 3.33 million metric tonnes of paddy output in the key Maha season (2018/19), a 40.2 percent year-on-year (YoY) increase, as weather conditions continu
Sri Lanka’s lubricant market leader, Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC was seen gaining market share lost to its competitors during the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), the quarterly lubricant mar
Sri Lanka’s manufacturing and services activities expanded during the month of October, according to SL Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) compiled by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank. The manufacturing sector PMI value in Octo
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who lost two motions of no confidence last week, may lose his government’s budget even as he clings to power.
The credit granted to the private sector by the banks has surged while the credit to the government and public corporations followed suit, as the Central Bank printed money to keep the interest rates low in September. The banks in September gav
Sri Lanka’s largest shipbuilder, Colombo Dockyard PLC (DOCK), a unit of Japan’s Onomichi Dockyard, returned to profit during the September quarter (3Q18), after two quarters of losses, larg
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee fell to an all-time low of 177.35 per dollar yesterday, as political uncertainty outweighed the positive impact of a policy rate hike, sources said. Stocks closed weaker for the second straight session due to p
(Milan/London) REUTERS: The London Stock Exchange will move its European government bond trading from London to Italy before Britain’s exit from the European Union next March, it said yesterday.
Former Monetary Board member Neil Umagiliya assumed duties yesterday as the 25th Chairman of state-run Bank of Ceylon (BOC). Umagiliya is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants, United Kingdom and a Member of the British
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry stakeholders yesterday expressed concerns over the possibility of prospective tourists who would have visited Sri Lanka turning to other alternative destinations due to the prolonged political crisis, as touri
(San Francisco) AFP: Ride-share company Uber said that its net loss topped a billion dollars in the recently ended quarter as it pumped money into bikes, scooters, freight and food delivery.
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