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Sri Lanka stocks close up 0.2-pct, rupee weaker
Jan 23, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s stocks closed up 0.2 percent Wednesday with banking sector stocks seeing interest, while the rupee weakened in forex markets, brokers and dealers said. The Colombo All Share Index rose 0.22 percent to close at 5,883.66 points up 12.73 points and the S&P SL 20 Index rose 7.23 point […]
Sri Lanka China venture to make specialty tea
Jan 23, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Elpitiya Plantations Plc has formed a joint venture with China’s Yunnan Dianhong Group to produce ‘Chinese Specialty Tea’ for export, the island’s investment promotion agency said. The joint venture firm Elpitiya Dianhong Jin Ya Tea Company (Private) Limited has been formed with Dianhong International Limited, Hongkong, the BOI […]
Securities Watch
Jan 23, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s MillenniumIT, a unit of the London Stock Exchange said its software is being used for monitoring equity and derivative markets in Malaysia. The ‘Millennium Surveillance’ software integrated the equity and derivatives trading platforms to a unified system offering Bursa Malaysia offering a better insight into trading behavior and […]
Sri Lanka opposition backs stronger economic links with India
Jan 23, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party said it welcomed a move to start talks on a special economic partnership with India after an earlier deal was put on the backburner due to nationalism. “We welcome the news that Sri Lanka and India have decided to begin discussions to develop […]
Sri Lanka Treasuries yields fall
Jan 22, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields fell across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 6-month yield falling as much as 17 basis points to 10.41 percent, data from the state debt office showed.The 3-month yield fell 12-basis points to 9.63 percent and the 12-month yield fell 01 basis point to 11.25 percent. […]
‘ Choice 2013 rankings
Jan 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has been added to a list of 14 Asian countries where popular hotels are ranked annually by TripAdvisor.com, a travel review site, though no hotel in the island made it to the world’s best 25 hotels. Maldives had three hotels in the top 25, Baros Maldives, North Male […]
Sri Lanka axed from AirAsia network
Jan 22, 2013 (LBO) – AirAsia, a low cost carrier said it was ending daily flights to Colombo from February 26, “as part of a commercial realignment.” Affected guest could move their flights to an earlier date without any extra charge, offered credit valued to three months or a full refund, the airline said. AirAsia […]
‘s finance and economic ministry on trade
Jan 22, 2013 (LBO) – India will begin talks with Sri Lanka’s finance and economic ministry to develop “a framework for a special economic partnership” a joint statement released after a meeting between delegations headed by foreign ministers of the two countries said.“[T]he two sides decided to take several steps to further deepen trade, tourism […]
Sri Lanka Commercial Credit to sell 20-pct debentures
Jan 21, 2013 (LBO) – Commercial Credit and Finance Plc, is selling 250 million rupees of 5-year debentures paying of 20 percent a year with an option to sell further 250 million rupees worth if there is strong demand, managers to the issue said.Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka, which is managing the sale said, interest […]
Sri Lanka bond auction yields flat
Jan 21, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s 08 and 15-year bond yields were flat at Monday’s auction, unchanged from January 10, data from the state debt office showed, while three year bonds were sold at near secondary market rates, dealers said.Bond maturing on May 01, 2021 (8 years and 4 months) were sold to yield […]
Pirate Poser
Jan 21, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s southern port of Galle has become a hub in the fight against Somali pirates who threaten international merchant shipping, a report in a new magazine said. “Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the region to authorise the transit of armed guards through their waters for […]
OTT Revolution
Jan 21, 2013 (LBO) – Asian mobile operators are likely to see sharp falls in short message service (SMS) revenues as subscribers shift to services like WhatsApp which allow unlimited texting, an economic research consultancy has said.In December 2012, WhatsApp had processed 7 billion inbound messages and 11 billion outbound messages worldwide on December 31. […]