Category: Economy and Markets
Sri Lanka Etisalat creates active market for Android App development
Feb 20, 2013 (LBO) – A marketplace created by Sri Lanka’s Etisalat is helping the development and sale of Apps for smart phones based on the Android operating system, and has been recognized in a United Nations report, officials said.The UN Conference on Trade and Development in its information economy report 2012 said Etisalat’s App […]
Sri Lanka Treasuries yield frozen
Feb 20, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields were kept flat Wednesday’s auction with only 14.9 billion rupees in bids for 20 billion rupees of bills being offered at the auction being accepted, data from the state debt office showed. The debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank said 926 million […]
Sri Lanka rupee weakens amid excess liquidity
Feb 19, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rupee weakened below 127.00 to the US dollar in the spot market Tuesday following a prolonged period of excess liquidity in money markets, dealers said though authorities have begun to permanently sterilize some excess rupees. The spot US dollar was quoted around 127.00/10 Tuesday though a state name […]
Sri Lanka sells US$152 million in floating rate bonds
Feb 15, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has sold 152.12 million US dollars of 3-year bonds to yield 400 basis points above the 6-month London Interbank Offered Rate, the state debt office said.The debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank offered to sell 60 million dollars of bonds styled ‘Sri Lanka Development […]
Sri Lanka investments eyed by Polish businesses
Feb 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state investment promotion agency said Polish investors met the agency to assess possible investments in power generation and pharmaceuticals manufacture.A delegation from Polska Izba Gospodarcze, the Polish Chamber of Commerce headed by Leszek Lazarczyk of Linter group in Poland had visited Sri Lanka’ the Board of Investment said. […]
‘s tax-take weakens amid slowdown, exemptions: IMF
Feb 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tax revenues had fallen below target in 2012 amid an economic slowdown, declining imports and tax exemptions, the International Monetary Fund said. The IMF said Sri Lanka’s value added tax (VAT) regime is yielding less taxes than it should at current rates in force. “Strengthening the administration of […]
Sri Lanka seeks US200mn from World Bank for health
Feb 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is seeking a 200 million US dollar credit from the World Bank to improve the health care system and reduce non-communicable diseases, minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said.The money will be used in programs to reduce malnutrition, prevent and control non-communicable diseases and improve maternal and child care. The program […]
Sri Lanka Treasuries auction yields down
Feb 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yield fell across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 3-month yield falling as much as 15 basis points to 9.10 percent, data from the state debt office showed. The 6-month yield fell 8 basis points to 10.08 percent and the 12-month yield fell one basis point to […]
Sri Lanka will be forced into expensive loans with IMF out: legislator
Feb 13, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will have to rely on high interest loans from international capital markets and China with the International Monetary Fund refusing budget support, a legislator has said.“What this country now needs is neither budget support nor balance of payments support,” opposition legislator Harsha de Silva said. “What this country […]
Sri Lanka economy to grow 6.25-pct in 2013: IMF
Feb 13, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s economy is expected to grow 6.25 percent in 2013 after dipping to 6.0 percent in 2013, with high inflation reducing space for monetary easing, the International Monetary Fund said.“The recovery will be constrained by high inflation which limits room for near term monetary easing,” IMF mission team leader […]
Sri Lanka war zones get two hospitals with US support
Feb 13, 2013 (LBO) – Two new hospitals built with American and Sri Lankan government involvement in former war zones in the north had been opened on February 12, the US embassy in Colombo said.The Mulankavil base hospital in Kilinochchi and Oddusuddan divisional hospital in Mullaitivu were built at a cost of a million US […]
Sri Lanka should hold policy rates till inflation falls: IMF
Feb 13, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should freeze policy rates until inflation starts to fall, International Monetary Fund said as the country is going through the highest inflation generated by the central bank in nearly four years.Inflation Risk Sri Lanka should hold policy rates till inflation falls: IMF Feb 13, 2013 (LBO) – Sri […]