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Shares have been on the rise mainly on positive sentiment after the IMF comments.
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sell Rs60bn mostly in 3-month bills, yield up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt office raises 21 pct of required debt via T-bills (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bairaha Farm’s profit soars over 200% on rising chicken price (Category: Breaking News)
Market sees over 600 million rupees of net foreign inflow
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
The program aims to provide fertilisers up to 1 million farmers
- Agricultural equipment at concessionary terms for Sri Lankan farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. to ban tobacco cultivation (Category: Breaking News)
- Pay farmers their pension they have contributed to Anura Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Tribute to our gutsy farmers (Category: South Australia)
Market saw net foreign outflow for the 1st time in 16 straight sessions.
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bourse edges up after three-session fall amid continued foreign inflow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain for third straight session led by market heavyweights (Category: Breaking News)
(PTI) The IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva yesterday (4) said she is pleased the Washington-based lender and the Sri Lankan government have reached a staff-level agreement to provide about $2.9 billion to help the bankrupt country, terming the deal as an “important step forward.” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced that it will provide […]
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says 2.9bn loan bailout for Sri Lanka tied to debt relief from bilateral creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka crisis would deepen if creditors disagree, IMF says amid China concerns (Category: Breaking News)
"Investors expect the economy to recover sooner than later."
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Sampath Bank’s Profit down by 4.9-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bourse edges up after three-session fall amid continued foreign inflow (Category: Breaking News)
The country is yet to see the impacts of economic crisis easing.
- Rescue Deal (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Devalues Rupee, Plans Tax Cuts to Support Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Current phase of global recovery and implications for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget is vital for development (Category: Breaking News)
The main All Share Price Index (ASPI) fell 0.66%
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bourse edges up after three-session fall amid continued foreign inflow (Category: Breaking News)
- Record breaking Stock Market (Category: Breaking News)
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- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
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- Online Safety Bill & Anti-Terror Bill – Law Making To End Democracy & Fundamental Rights Of Sri... (Category: Breaking News)
- President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citiz... (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolition Of The Executive Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
Stocks fell in the last two sessions on profit taking
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
Thursday 18th August 2022 Speculation is rife that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is planning to return to Sri Lanka. The question, however, is not whether he is coming, but what he is doing overseas. The anti-government protesters who engineered his ouster called upon him to ‘go home’; they did not ask him to flee the […]
- Dullas: Ranil making same mistakes as Gotabaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota to return on Saturday? (Category: Breaking News)
- President at beck and call of Rajapaksas – Sajith (Category: Breaking News)
- Kiriella alleges tax concessions granted to GR’s election funders (Category: Breaking News)
Market down for 2nd time in 14 straight sessions
- Sri Lanka Nestlé unit’s profit up 34% amid net financial expenses jump (Category: Breaking News)
- Bourse up on strong earnings; Rupee weaker (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s IOC unit reports Rs12.3 bn in Sept 2022 profits (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain for third straight session led by market heavyweights (Category: Breaking News)
Market has been on the rise due political stability hope after months of protests
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
- Record breaking Stock Market (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks slip in first-hour trade (Category: Breaking News)
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- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
The National movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) said that it is gravely concerned about a number of actions taken by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in recent days.NMSJ chairman, former Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya said that it is their belief that the arrests of Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union, Palitha Atampola and […]
- Sajith says govt lying about there being no money to hold polls after having printed Rs 278 bn i... (Category: Breaking News)
- Chief Govt. Whip insists only Presidential poll will be held this year (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- The government printed Rs 278 billion between October and December 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
Calls for unity in a country torn apart by nationalism and monetary instability
- Selected imports to be restricted to balance payments for fuel (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president, PM, opposition leader support proposed UN-monitored reforms: Victor Ivan (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns Sri Lanka facing threat of hitting rock bottom (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka should kick off debt restructuring talks with its bilateral lender China, while the island state's government seeks a financing loan from the Washington-based fund.The post IMF says Sri Lanka needs to talk with China about debt restructuring appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- China tells IMF willing to take constructive part in debt talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring: China expected to inform its support to IMF today (Category: Breaking News)
- China gives assurances to the IMF that it will support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
- India ‘strongly supports’ Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka should kick off debt restructuring talks with its bilateral lender China, while the island state’s government seeks a financing loan from the Washington-based fund. “China is a big creditor, and Sri Lanka has to engage proactively with it on a debt restructuring,” Krishna Srinivasan, director of the […]
- Rights group seeks arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club to give Sri Lanka financing assurances (Category: Breaking News)
- Bill to trim president’s powers likely to become law within weeks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to announce debt restructuring strategy in April (Category: Breaking News)
Investors are waiting for some positive news to enter market.
- Fuel prices increased (Category: Breaking News)
- Peliyagoda fish market complex inaugurated (Category: Breaking News)
- Coconut prices down (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs81bn in Treasuries, yields steady (Category: Breaking News)
The government defaulted an interest payment of 78 million US dollar of a sovereign bond on May 19
- Cross Asian (Category: Business)
- S&P downgrades two Sri Lanka sovereign bonds to ‘D’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sovereign rating at SD but ISBs downgraded to ‘D’ by S&P (Category: Breaking News)
- Reserve Investment (Category: Business)
Market sees fall after military attacked protesters last week
- Sri Lanka shares edge up from 1-mo lows amid foreign outflows (Category: Breaking News)
- Development as the key to stability (Category: Breaking News)
- Toll Rate (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka bourse performs Asia's best in 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
Analysts expect market to fall if protests build up in future after Friday's attack by the military
- Sri Lanka Treasury bill yields ease across maturities (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rupee guidance rate up by 95 cents; T-bill yields steady at weekly auction (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs50bn of Treasury bonds (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s rupee guidance peg edges down; yields in govt securities pick up (Category: Breaking News)
Wickremesinghe won 134 votes
Market hopes an all-party government under new president could ease political crisis.
- Toll Rate (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka spends Rs. 425 billion for North East development (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government allocates over US$ 2 billion for Defence Ministry in Appropriation Bill fo... (Category: Breaking News)
- Hotel Buy (Category: Business)
Race between Ranil and Dullas
- Sri Lanka opposition move to express parliament’s dissatisfaction with president defeated (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka ruling party MP Ranjith Bandara appointed COPE chair (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian shipment of rice, milk powder, medicines worth 2bn arrive in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s US$74 rice grant to reach Sri Lanka by end June (Category: Breaking News)
As the Sri Lankan political crisis continues to rage, China has not made any comments and this has made it evident that the ouster of the Rajapaksa family from power is set to have long-term implications for the Chinese, media reports said. In more than half a century for which the Rajapaksas held
- Chinese role in the Sri Lankan crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to discuss debt restructuring with China (Category: Breaking News)
- 1,000 MT of rice donated by China arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Unelected & Unconstitutional MP Becoming The President? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Despot President Was Replaced By A Tyrant In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- What’s The Country Need Now? (Category: Breaking News)
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
Some confidence returns to the market after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned.
- Development as the key to stability (Category: Breaking News)
- 3 billion for war heroes (Category: Breaking News)
- Keththarama Stadium opened by President (Category: Breaking News)
- MR gives Rs. 1 million (Category: Breaking News)
The Narendra Modi government has called for an all-party meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the crucial issue of the Sri Lanka crisis.The post Indian government calls an all-party meet on Sri Lanka crisis appeared first on ONLANKA News - Sri Lanka News - Latest News Sri Lanka - Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
- Serious crisis in Sri Lanka, worry about spillover – Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka crisis: India calls all-party meet on Tuesday (19) (Category: Breaking News)
- India expected to send ‘positive’ message on debt during Jaishankar’s visit to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says proposals set forth by parties to form all-party Government will be sha... (Category: Breaking News)
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