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(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed steady yesterday after six straight sessions of decline, as importer dollar demand offset mild exporter dollar sales, traders said.
The decline of ethics and morals in Sri Lanka’s business community has led businesses to heavily depend on excessive lobbying to politicians to gain “favour and unfair advantage” over the competitors, a leading shipping and logistic
Sri Lanka’s apparel exports rebounded in May with a 9.3 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth to achieve US $ 415 million in export earnings, which is also the highest growth rate recorded so far for this year, as Europe entered the summer season,
The much-delayed annual reports of the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF), which have been finalised now, would be released shortly Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said.
AFP: A global stocks rally took root yesterday after strong US jobs data and despite Brexit uncertainty that boosted the pound.
‘Step it up for gender equality’ was one among the many commitments renewed at the third South Asian Speakers Summit on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation, convened by the International Parliamentary Union and Sri Lanka&rs
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee fell for a sixth straight session yesterday on importer dollar demand and further weakness was expected in the currency, traders said.
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the National Export Strategy (NES)—a five-year strategy aimed at increasing exports and generating enhanced revenue for Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprises and exporters, a communiq
ECONOMYNEXT: Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to simplify the process for registering exporters to make it more effective, as the present system is seen as too cumbersome and time-consuming and open to abuse.
The Central Bank said the troubled ETI Finance Limited (ETIFL) has paid back 10 percent of the deposit liabilities to its existing deposit holders in the first round of payments concluded two weeks ago, and
Sampath Bank PLC last Friday announced its plans to raise US$ 100 million quoted in the Singapore Exchange (SGX), as the bank is gearing up for faster growth while adhering to new and higher capital thresholds coming into effect from early next year.
State-owned savings giant, the National Savings Bank (NSB) may have reversed its earlier decision to dispose the shares of 37 listed companies that are part of the bank’s equity portfolio, within a period of four months, according to the Centra
Parliamentarian and Joint Opposition stalwart Vasudeva Nanayakkara last week questioned as to why the present good governance regime, which came into power promising swift probes into past financial crimes, is backtracking on some of the large-scale
Sri Lanka has received US$ 50 million loan from OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) to improve the country’s technological education. A Finance & Mass Media Ministry statement said Sri Lanka signed a loan agreement for obtainin
The Central Bank has urged the government to put more weight on factor market reforms, improving investment climate and capitalising the country’s geographical location through trade policy in order to boost future economic growth, as the relat
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (AFP) : The US and China yesterday launched tit-for-tat tariffs on each other’s imports, the opening shots in what Beijing called “the largest trade war in economic history” between the world’s top two
The Sri Lankan consumers’ annual expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco is so high it surpasses the country’s annual bill on milk powder imports. This tobacco expenditure also exceeds another
The Central Bank left its key policy rates unchanged as expected yesterday, saying a low rates environment and stabilising inflation will support an economy in the face of a fragile rupee currency.
LONDON (AFP) : Britain’s government has “no clue or at least no consensus” over reaching a Brexit deal, Airbus chief executive Tom Enders said yesterday. During a company presentation delivered in London, Enders repeated the Europea
NEW DELHI (AFP): India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people, announced yesterday a ban on plastic cups and polythene use from July 15, in its third such attempt.
PARIS (AFP): Six sovereign wealth funds including four Gulf states have pledged to boost efforts to fight climate change at a Paris meeting called by Emmanuel Macron, the French presidential office announced yesterday.
HONG KONG (AFP): Asian stocks rebounded yesterday despite the introduction of US tariffs on US$34 billion in Chinese goods in what Beijing called the ‘largest trade war’ in economic history.
Two major emerging markets—Argentina and Turkey—are currently experiencing a bout of financial instability against a backdrop of rising US interest rates. The instability is evident in the sharp depreciation of the Argentine peso and Turk
Following is the full speech made by Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the conference for the heads of state-owned enterprises, at Hilton Colombo, yesterday.
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended lower for a fourth straight session yesterday, as demand for importer dollar outpaced inflows from inward remittances, dealers said.
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares rose 1.2 percent yesterday, the most in seven-and-a-half months, as investors bought into blue chips such as Ceylon Tobacco Co Plc and John Keells Holdings Plc after three straight sessions of sharp fall.
Due to an interim order granted by the Commercial High Court of Colombo, Agalawatte Plantations PLC yesterday said it could not take up any of the resolutions planned during the firm’s Extraordinary G
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank for the second time extended the suspension on the controversial bond dealer Perpetual Treasuries from six months with effect from yesterday.
Sri Lanka needs to gather momentum in its endeavour to liberalise the country’s shipping & freight forwarding industry, reiterated the largest global container shipping line, Maersk yesterday, and said it is i
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) together with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) yesterday launched ‘Empower – a dedicated listing platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a bid to provide much-needed eq
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