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Conflicting views remain after Budget’s 3% devaluation move PB says rupee should be market-driven; Cabraal says will defend Conflicting views on the country’s currency remain with Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera saying it should be market-driven, whilst Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal maintains that it will be defended. The simmering or what seems to be ...
- Can and will sustain rupee defence: CB Chief (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka affirms flexible FX policy, but will intervene if needed (Category: Business)
- IMF to discuss Sri Lanka loan follow-up (Category: Business)
- CB says no need for FX intervention (Category: Business)
Good governance activist and former Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Chandra Jayaratne is raising issues of accountability on the part of Central Bank over past management of foreign exchange, following the 2012 Budget’s devaluation move. “With the Budget directing the Central Bank to depreciate the Sri Lanka Rupee by 3%, the Central Bank ...
- Expect rupee to strengthen in coming months: Cabraal (Category: Breaking News)
- Financing of 2011 Budget goes haywire (Category: Business)
- Overshooting (Category: Business)
- Forex Policy (Category: Business)
Multilateral donor emphasises devaluation should help exports, reserves Opines 2012 Budget consistent with earlier plans Withholds eighth tranche of $ 2.6 b loan; mission in Jan The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that Sri Lanka’s devaluation of its currency was a “step in the right direction” that should favour export competitiveness and preserve foreign ...
- Devaluation divide (Category: Business)
- November annual inflation eases to 4.7% (Category: Business)
- No timing yet for Sri Lanka review prior to next loan disbursal: IMF (Category: Business)
- IMF to discuss Sri Lanka loan follow-up (Category: Business)
Representatives of 28 members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) including Sri Lanka met in Bangkok on 11 and 12 October to discuss Asia-Pacific perspectives on the agenda of the G20 summit to be held in Cannes, France, on 3 and 4 November 2011. Central Bank of ...
- Bill Gates to urge G20 not turn backs on poor (Category: Business)
- Crisis in multilateralism affecting developing nations most: PM at G20 meet (Category: Breaking News)
- G20: Focus on digital tech to support global economy (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s G20 presidency hot topic in Chinese media. But Beijing won’t discuss LAC at the summit (Category: Breaking News)
Resumes Reverse Repo Auctions A liquidity crisis in the market forced Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to reintroduce the reverse repo auction at Wednesday’s trading, an action which it last resorted to when the war was on; two years ago. The auction was repeated in the last two working days of last week as ...
- Rupee Strengthens, But Illiquid Status Worsens (Category: Breaking News)
- Money Market’s Illiquid Status Deepens (Category: Breaking News)
- Money Market, ER Management, Full Marks To CBSL (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL Losing Out On $ Sales (Category: Breaking News)
Leif Lybecker Eskesen, Chief Economist for HSBC India and ASEAN will visit Sri Lanka this week. During his visit, he will address the Bank’s corporate customers on ‘Asia’s Inflation – Growth Tango: who’s dominating the dance?’ at a special Power Breakfast, scheduled to be held on 7 October 2011, at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel. Leif ...
- HSBC Power Breakfast (Category: Business)
- India’s manufacturing growth slips in July, weakest since November (Category: Business)
- HSBC Advance brings innovative banking a step closer (Category: Business)
IMF urges more exchange rate flexibility CB defends interventions as necessary More discussions expected in Washington this week Reuters: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said there has been no timetable set for a review of Sri Lanka’s progress under a $2.6 billion loan, the precursor to disbursement of the programme’s eighth tranche. The global ...
- IMF’s take on Sri Lanka’s good, bad and the ugly (Category: Business)
- Rupee premiums under pressure after IMF statement (Category: Business)
- Devaluation a “right step,” says IMF (Category: Business)
- Exchange rate standoff as IMF visits SL (Category: Business)
CBSL’s ER Stance As long as Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) owned Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has sufficient rupee liquidity and foreign exchange (forex) reserves, it can play around with the exchange rate (ER), a banker told this reporter. CBSL’s gross official forex reserves as per available statistics were US$ ($) 8.1 billion ...
- Money Market, ER Management, Full Marks To CBSL (Category: Breaking News)
- Rupee Strengthens, But Illiquid Status Worsens (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabraal Soothes Rates At ER’s Expense (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL Rekindles War Memories (Category: Breaking News)
Last week, media were abuzz with two reports on how undesired exchange rate movements could worry governments. One was a currency under pressure for appreciation in the market and the other was a currency moving in the opposite. Swiss Franc: One way Journey to Appreciation The first was the case of the Swiss Franc which ...
- Six popular fallacies of currency appreciation – Part 2 (Category: Business)
- Swiss central bank intervention fails to stem franc’s rise (Category: Business)
- External value of the rupee: Market driven or Central Bank driven? (Category: Business)
- Rupee sinks to record low (Category: Business)
of its staff mission said Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange reserves ...
- No timing yet for Sri Lanka review prior to next loan disbursal: IMF (Category: Business)
- IMF’s take on Sri Lanka’s good, bad and the ugly (Category: Business)
- Drought may cut growth to 6.7% (Category: Business)
- CB to stop supplying dollars for oil bills (Category: Business)
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The current moves of the powerful government in post-war Sri Lanka are mainly for sustaining the wartime military strength, preventing the resurrection of the smashed LTTE and developing the infrastructures, notably the roads and rail network,...
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Lions’ and the ‘Tigers’ of Sovereign Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Are The Structural Changes Necessary? (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's gross foreign exchange reserves have risen to a record high, the central bank said on Thursday, thanks to a $1 billion inflow from the island nation's 10-year sovereign bond sale last week.
Fitch Ratings today (21) affirmed Sri Lanka’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘B+’, and simultaneously revised the Outlook to ‘Positive from Stable’. Following is the full text published by Fitch on Sri Lanka: Fitch Ratings has today affirmed Sri Lanka’s Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ...
- Fitch Affirms Sri Lanka at ‘BB-’; Outlook Stable (Category: Breaking News)
- Appropriate actions prompt Fitch to affirm Sri Lanka at ‘BB-’; Outlook Stable (Category: Business)
- Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka’s long-term local-currency IDR to ‘CC’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministry: Ground Situ In Japan Returning To Normal (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank has said that the remittances made by expatriate Sri Lankans have steadily increased. The foreign Exchange reserves have increased by 3.8 billion US dollars since the country was liberated from terrorism. Financial aid received by people in the North and East, as well as sustained
Sri Lanka may not tap loans from the International Monetary Fund immediately as foreign-exchange reserves have climbed to a record, Deputy Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama said.
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