Category: Economy and Markets
“SRI LANKA – TECHNOLOGY DRIVES DISRUPTION: EMBRACE OR FACE EXTINCTION”| LBR LBO SUMMIT 2015
LBR LBO Annual Enterprise Summit 2015 will be held on 14th July at Oak Room, Cinnamon Grand with a total of 30 speakers both local and Intentional. This year’s Platinum and Title Sponsor is Leapset, while Singer Mega and Sampath Bank are Gold sponsors. Etisalat is the mobile enterprises solutions partner. At a media briefing […]
Huawei launches its flagship smartphone – P8
July 6, 2015 (LBO) – Chinese telecoms maker Huawei together with Singer Sri Lanka launched its newest addition to the smart phone segment “Huawei P8” in Colombo recently.“The Huawei P8 is inspired by the best of human design from different cultures across the centuries and embodies the human spirit of exploration and beauty,” Henry Liu, […]
Sri Lanka rupee may strengthen with foreign cash inflows for election: CB Governor
June 6, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rupee may strengthen supported by foreign inflows to finance an upcoming general election in September this year, Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran told reporters recently.Mahendran said this in reply to a question raised by a journalist about the prediction made by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake on 23rd of […]
US reauthorized GSP, Duty Free Entry for 5000 products from 122 countries and territories
July 3, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Department of Commerce says that the US President has restored US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) with effect from 29.06.2015 with retroactive respect including Sri Lanka.A statement said that the US President signed into law HR 1295 on June 29, 2015 re-authorizing the US GSP Programme until 31 […]
Sri Lanka’s President should ask the COPE report on CB Bond: Former COPE Chairman
July 3, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s President Sirisena should read the COPE report on the much talked bond scam and take actions if necessary, former Chairman of the inquiry committee DEW Gunasekera said.“If President wants he can get a copy of this report from the secretary of the parliament and see whether there is […]
‘s ruling UNP to present new budget after winning general election
July 03, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Party on Friday said they are presanting a new budget if they win the upcoming general election. Former Deputy Minister of Economic Policy, Dr. Harsha de Silva responding to a question raised by LBO said they are yet to decide on the super gain rax […]
Sri Lanka gross borrowings down 22.5-pct from Jan to Apr 2015
July 03, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government debt operations indicated total gross borrowing as 569.8 billion rupees during the first four months of this year, down 22.5 percent from the same period last year. Out of the total, 530.6 billion rupees was domestic borrowings and balance 39.2 billion rupees was the foreign borrowings, 2015 […]
Sri Lanka CPC loss Rs5bn in the first four months to April 2015
July 2, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, reported a loss of 5 billion rupees by the end of month of April 2015 despite the oil price reduction of the world market, state statistics report showed.The CPC’s total cost of the petroleum products imports during the first four month is around 90 billion […]
SriLankan airline loss Rs4.9bn in first four months of 2015
July 2, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state owned SriLankan airline recorded a loss of 4.9 billion rupees during the first four months of 2015, statistics shows.This has been resulted to increase the accumulated losses of the airline to 130.9 billion rupees. The airline reported a revenue of 39.6 billion rupees during the period, which […]
Sri Lanka sells Rs2.0bn in 04 and 07 year bonds
July 02, 2015 (LBO) – The issue of treasury bonds amounting to 10 billion rupees have been oversubscribed with 18 billion rupees of bids received from investors.The central bank has accepted one billion rupees of four year bonds maturing on 01 May 2020 at a weighted average yield rate of 8.20 percent. The bond auction […]
Nawaloka Hospitals commences Rs2.5bn construction of multi-story car park
July 2, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Nawaloka Hospitals commenced construction of a 14 floor multi-storey car park and specialist center adjacent to the existing hospital complex with an investment of 2.5 billion rupees, the company said in a press release.This fifth phase of expansion of capacity since the hospital’s inception, will add 450,000 square […]
Commercial Leasing and Finance to issue debt
July 2, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Leasing and Finance to issue 50,000,000 rated, senior, unsecured, redeemable debentures at an issue price of 100 rupees each, the company said in a filing to stock exchange.The company says the Colombo Stock Exchange has approved the application for listing the debt securities of the company.The subscription […]