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REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended higher yesterday, a day after the local currency hit a record low, as greenback sales by exporters outpaced dollar demand from importers,
REUTERS: Sri Lankan share index slipped yesterday from a five-week closing high hit the previous day, snapping a six-session winning streak, as investors offloaded select blue-chip stocks in low volumes.
With aluminium prices in the world market on the surge owing to US sanctions on Russian aluminium giant United Co. Rusal, prices of new residential and commercial projects under construction in Sri Lan
The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority this week announced that it will be establishing a mobile unit for registration and advisory services for establishments providing services to tourists.
Petroleum Resources Development Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said yesterday the final decision on a possible fuel price hike will be taken by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox has said that Britain is ready for direct investments in Sri Lanka while increasing its existing investments in the country. According to President Maithripala Sirisena’s media division
The government is likely to put its rubber stamp on cost-reflective pricing formulae for fuel and electricity within this year, as the burden of state-owned enterprise (SOE) debt has been weighing on the economy for too long.
Dialog Broadband Networks (Pvt.) Ltd (DBN), a subsidiary of Dialog Axiata PLC, is seeking Rs.7.8 billion in damages from the state-owned Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT), on the industrial espionage case being heard at the Commercial High Court.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Central Bank has made it obligatory for designated non-finance businesses (DNFBs) to conduct customer due diligence in a bid to curb money laundering and terrorist financing activities.
REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee inched up after touching a record low yesterday, with dollar demand from importers offsetting limited selling of the US currency by exporters earlier in the session,
Sri Lanka is to form a six-member secretariat for monitoring and implementation of the proposed five-year National Export Strategy (NES), Development Strategies and International Trade Ministry Secretary Chandani Wijewardana told Mirror Business, yes
The weak link between the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and global market trends is keeping earnings growth of the CSE indices below growth rates of
In order to help the small states get access to global markets, Sri Lanka has pledged financial contribution to setup the Small States Trade Financial Facility, on the margins of the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Uni
The weak link between Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and global market trends is keeping earnings growth of CSE indices below growth rates of competing markets.
The apparel industry, which is Sri Lanka’s leading export revenue earner, is set to gain fresh impetus from the U.S. market in the coming months, as American garment importers look for produce
Sri Lanka’s motor car registrations in March rose sharply with pre-owned or reconditioned cars hitting a record since September 2015 when the vehicle imports reached an all-time high after the Central Bank printed money to keep bank credit chea
Professor Rohan Samarajiva has been appointed the new Chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) along with a new director board.
Sri Lanka yesterday pledged to protect tourists visiting the island nation as much as possible following a spate of attacks on foreigners, but stressed that the responsibility of protecting tourists falls on the tourists themselves, as well as every
Amidst the growing fears of an impending power crisis, the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) has informed the government that the country could experience intermittent power failures and prolonged recovery of such outages, as it
Sri Lanka has tightened its screws on money laundering and terrorist financing by amending the Companies Act, a Finance and Mass Media Ministry communiqué said. The European Parliament recently confirmed that Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Trinidad an
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC’s (SLT) unsecured Rs.7 billion debenture issue, inclusive of two greenshoe options, was subscribed on the opening day (April 11), despite two other large debenture issues opening on the same day.
Sri Lanka’s banking sector’s strength to withstand cyclical economic shocks remains weak and is affected by the country’s low income levels, said Standard & Poor’s, while revising the country’s economic risk trend to
National carrier SriLankan Airlines yesterday said it achieved a record unaudited annual passenger revenue of Rs.126.9 billion (US $ 830.7 million) for the FY2017/18 ended this March.
President Maithripala Sirisena, who arrived in London on Sunday night to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2018, is scheduled to address the Commonwealth Business Forum tomorrow.
Amid the growing interest towards virtual currencies globally and locally, Sri Lanka’s Central Bank yesterday said it has not given the licence or authorization to any entity or company to operate schemes involving virtual currencies, including
As the economy continues to fall victim to nepotism, which taxes the nation in terms of income and productivity, Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya this week stressed the need to do away with the corrupt practice, so that the public enterprises ca
REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed marginally down yesterday on importer dollar demand in light trading ahead of the traditional festival this week, dealers said. The rupee closed at 155.65/75 per dollar, compared with Tuesday’s close of 155.
A proposal to the effect of introducing ‘standard packaging’ (colourless) for tobacco products has received the green light from the cabinet of ministers. The government said the proposal
REUTERS: Sri Lanka’s state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corp (CPC) is under pressure to raise fuel prices as the refiner incurred huge losses this year, cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday.
Sri Lanka’s future economic growth largely hinges on the prospects in the agriculture and domestic politics as adverse weather and toxic politics could derail the growth similar to what the country experienced in 2017, according to the Asian De
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