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Nov 18, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Employee’s Provident Fund’s unrealized profits of the share portfolio of investments in equity passed 14 billion rupees on Novemebr this year, Central Bank said in a media release. The bank says the mark to market value of EPF’s investments in equities as at 14 November 2014 comfortably exceeded […]

Nov 18, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank yesterday issued a new series of 25 coins of 10 rupee denomination in order to recognize and portray unique characteristics and/or iconic landmarks and/or special features of each administrative district of Sri Lanka. The new coins would be released via the banks and the Central Bank […]

Nov 18, 2014 (LBO) Sri Lanka unchanged its policy rate corridor at 6.5 to 8.0 percent in order to remain broadly on target in 2014 with low inflation the Central Bank in its November monetary policy review.The island inflation continued to remain in low single digit levels, declined to 1.6 percent in October from 3.5 […]

Nov 17, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank today issued a new series of 25 coins of 10 rupee denomination in order to portray each administrative district of the island nation. The new coins would be released via the banks and the Central Bank Provincial Offices for circulation.

Nov 11, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka who fishes for a bigger bite of the world ornamental fish market, with targets set for one billion bills by 2020, do not need to worry about the Red List, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said. The Red List is an international classification of the world’s threatened […]

Nov 11, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will see a new inflation basket stating from next year eliminating the Colombo Consumers Price Index (CCPI), a top official at the country’s statistics office told LBO in an interview. We are going to change the inflation basket next year and introduce a national index covering all the […]

Nov 11, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka launched a new floating restaurant at the Wetland Park in Nawala, Colombo yesterday, a media report said.The Urban Wetland Park popularly known as ‘Weli Park’ completed under the Colombo Development Programme was aimed at flood retention and control while providing a people friendly setting for the general public […]

Nov 11, 2014 (LBO)- Fitch Ratings Lanka has assigned Sampath Bank PLC’s proposed subordinated debentures of up to seven billion rupees an expected National Long-Term Rating of ‘A+(lka)(EXP)’, the rating agency said in a media statement. The debentures, which will have tenors of five years and carry fixed coupons, will be listed on the Colombo […]

Nov 07, 2014 (LBO) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed first tranche loan agreement with the Sri Lanka government to lend 800 million dollars to upgrade roads. The first tranche in an amount of 100 million US dollars with the 18 million US dollars of government’s investment will finance the first slice of the […]

Nov 07, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s exports rose 0.5 percent, to 903 million US dollars in September 2014 from a year earlier with largest contribution from textiles and garments followed by coconut and printing industry products, official data showed. In September worker remittances (exports of labour) rose 3.1 percent to 575 million US dollars, […]

Nov 04, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka launched a Sri Lanka shopping festival or SLASH recently with an aim to increase customer traffic into retail areas multi-fold and attract hundreds of thousands of additional shoppers across multiple locations to create additional businesses for retailers organizers said in a media release. Organizers also plan to immense […]