COLOMBO (REUTERS): The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly firmer yesterday as remittances boosted dollar inflows, helping offset the importer dollar demand, traders said.

(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed steady yesterday in mild trading as dollar demand from importers were offset by greenback selling by exporters, traders said.

(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares rose yesterday and marked their highest close in nearly three weeks, led by market heavyweight John Keells Holdings, as foreign buying boosted sentiment.

Keells Food Products PLC (KFP) reported higher revenues and profits in the three months ended in June 30, 2018 as the group specializing in processed food increased its sales during the first quarter of its financial year. 

The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has transferred the securities of the Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka and Finance PLC (MBSL) to the Watch List with effect from July 17, 2018 due to the issues pertaining to its undercapitalized insurance subsidiary, MBSL

Sri Lanka’s struggling rubber industry yesterday urged the government and relevant authorities to give due attention by looking at means to boost productivity, a key aspect that remains to be activel

Sri Lanka yesterday unveiled the five-year National Export Strategy (NES), a blueprint for achieving US $28 billion in exports by 2022, aiming to facilitate a sustainable transition to a higher middle-income country. 

The deteriorating asset quality appears to be a common phenomenon with Sri Lanka’s banks and non-banks but the intensity of the problem of the latter suggests that the ailment runs deep. 

Diversified conglomerate Hayleys PLC will raise Rs.4 billion via debentures.

(Johannesburg) REUTERS: China is saddling poor nations with unsustainable debt through large-scale infrastructure projects that are not economically viable, the head of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) said  this week.

Lanka Sathosa will return to profits this year amid the cost-cutting initiatives and focus on high-yielding grocery sales, according to the head of Sri Lanka’s state-run supermarket chain.

The presiding type is all set to enact the death penalty to ensure the drug lords of paradise are sent to their final resting place to save our society. We hear the green leader type is not for it, given the impact the decision would have on trade in

The finance ministering type annually comes up with something controversial that rocks the establishment.

A powerful JO type has got a divine message saying he will be the next head of state of the sunny paradise. So, we hear the man is now publicly saying that he is the most senior blue type and that he should be given the nomination, if the former stro

Oil palm is being played out as a big issue on the sustainability agenda in our country now. Despite repeated best efforts by responsible stakeholders including growers, agri experts, academia etc, in refuting irrelevant allegations, the topic keep

A chairman type of a listed entity had been told by the major shareholder to retire to bring in a new chairman type. The man had said he would leave at the annual meeting. We hear a few months have now gone and the man has happily forgotten his promi

We hear the new boss at the stock market regulator type is getting the official types to work extra time to get things moving. They say, although the man is a typical case of ‘I, me and myself’, something productive seems to be happening.

Sri Lanka has won its first ever court case against countervailing duties,  as a US court ruled that the 0.95 percent countervailing duty attributed to the guaranteed price scheme on import of off-the-road (OTR) tyres 

Diversified conglomerate Hayleys PLC will raise Rs.4 billion via debentures. The company received preliminar

The quality of the assets of Sri Lankan banks is continuing to deteriorate and the banking sector regulator, the Central Bank, feels the worst is yet to come. According to the latest banking industry data seen 

Sri Lanka’s healthcare system needs private sector investment in the medium term, as the public sector would struggle to address challenges stemming from the country’s fast growing ageing population.

Eco Spindles, a wholly owned subsidiary of BPPL Holdings Ltd (BPPL) yesterday inaugurated Sri Lanka’s first ever polyester yarn plant at Horana Export Processing Zone with a Rs.800 million investment.

Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake is currently in Japan to find solutions to the problems faced in exporting Sri Lankan tea to Japan due to its residue levels. Japan has introduced a set of revise

Sri Lanka plans to bring several amendments to the new Inland Revenue Act (IRA) within next six weeks, following the emergence of several discrepancies during the implementation of the act, Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera said.

Top professional Dinesh Weerakkody has resigned from the director board of Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC), with effect from July 15, 2018.

China says Sri Lanka has the potential to become the centre of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road while driving the trade and economic co-operation between China and Sri Lanka to a new level. 

Japanese Sri Lanka Friendship (JSF) Corporation, a Board of Investment (BOI) company, will commence operations at its production facility in Katunayake next week, becoming Sri Lanka’s sole manufacturer of solar panels. 

Business tycoon Harry Jayawardena-controlled Melstacorp PLC could soon start targeting companies for acquisitions as the diversified conglomerate appears to be currently in its best form after the successful completion of its restructuring. 

Sri Lanka has outperformed in the latest Hinrich Foundation Sustainable Trade Index, ranking seventh overall, emerging as the highest-placed of the middle-income and emerging markets, above richer countries such as China (8th), Malaysia (12th), Thail

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