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Sri Lanka Aitken Spence June net up 50-pct
Aug 03, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence group net profit in the June 2010 quarter rose 50 percent to 440 million rupees from a year ago, a stock exchange filing said. “We have aggressive plans to strengthen our tourism interests in the island to position Sri Lanka as a high-end sustainable tourism destination, […]
Fashionable Results
Aug 03, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan retailer Odel group’s June profits rose 187 percent to 37 million rupees from a year ago owing to better margins despite higher tax and operating costs, its interim results showed. Odel group’s June quarter sales were up 62 percent to 692 million rupees, while cost of sales had […]
Large gaps in Asia-Pacific development goals: UN
JAKARTA, August 3, 2010 (AFP) – South Asia is lagging behind the Asia-Pacific region in poverty and hunger reduction, and is in danger of missing these key targets in the UN’s millennium development goals, a UN official said Tuesday. Ministers from around the region gathered at a review of the millennium goals (MDGs) heard that […]
Sri Lanka May exports up 15% to $620mn, garments recover
Aug 03, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s exports in May 2010 rose 15 percent to 620 million US dollars from a year ago, helped by industrial exports, mainly apparel, and tea, the central bank said. Exports of apparel, the island’s main industrial export, rose 11 percent to 263 million dollars in May 2010 from the […]
Sri Lankan war refugees remain homeless: Tamil party
August 2, 2010 (AFP) – Thousands of men, women and children displaced by Sri Lanka’s civil war are living in the open air 15 months after fighting ended, the island’s main Tamil political party said Monday. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said the government’s promise that the civilians would be allowed to return to their […]
Sri Lanka stocks up, blue chips in demand
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan shares continued last week’s bull-run Monday, as investors continued to buy despite some strategic profit taking, while large private deals on selected blue chips boosted turnover, brokers said. The All Share Price Index closed at 5,178. 47, up 17.29 points, while the more liquid Milanka index gained 0. […]
Bank Numbers
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank net profit for the June 2010 quarter rose 7. 5 percent to 1.2 billion rupees from a year ago with a sharp fall in interest expenses, a stock exchange filing said. Total income was down 10 percent to 9. 9 billion rupees in the quarter, the […]
Bank Rating
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – Fitch Ratings Lanka said it has downgraded Commercial Bank’s National Long-term rating to ‘AA(lka)’ from ‘AA+(lka)’ and its individual rating to ‘D/E’ from ‘D’ with a stable outlook. The agency has also downgraded the rating on the bank’s subordinated debentures to ‘AA-(lka)’ from ‘AA(lka)’ and simultaneously confirmed its Support rating […]
Rights Issue
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – People’s Leasing Finance Company wants to raise 568 million rupees via a one-to-one rights issue to meet capital adequacy requirements, a stock exchange filing said. The 22.7 million rights issue will be priced at 25 rupees per share, to raise 568 million rupees to boost the firm’s core capital. “The […]
Credit Trends
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – The number of credit cards issued by Sri Lanka’s banks picked up slightly in May 2010 from the previous month but total credit contracted as banks remained cautious, latest data showed. Total credit given through cards fell to 29.9 billion rupees in May 2010 from 30.2 billion in April 2010 […]
Business Guidance
Aug 02, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company (LOLC) and a micro financier attached to a charity are teaching relatives of foreign migrant workers to set up and run small income generating businesses. “People themselves hand carry or they send through their friends and family members,”Nanayakkara said. “So what happened is the […]
US, Russia, China, Israel stay out of cluster bomb treaty
GENEVA, August 1, 2010 (AFP) – A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons. Pope Benedict XVI hailed the ban and joined calls for all countries to sign up to the deal that also obliges those that have […]