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Treasury expectsinflation to fall below 9% after September Annual inflation eased due to drop in food prices: CB Reuters: Sri Lanka’s inflation rate in September eased to 9.1% from a year earlier, moderating further from July’s near-record high as food prices fell. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected annual inflation to ease to 9.2% from ...
The Sri Lankan rupee strengthened yesterday as banks sold dollars on stock related inflows, dealers said.
Global giant Standard Chartered Bank tips Sri Lanka’s economic growth to rebound in 2013, after contracting this year from 2011. It is forecasting economy to grow by 7.5% in 2013 and by 7.7% in 2014 from 6.8% this year. However, forecasts for the next two years are lower in comparison to record 8.3% growth achieved ...
The Sri Lankan rupee (SLR) will stabilize at Rs.130-132 against the US dollar by the end of 2012, depreciating 16 percent year-on-year (YoY) and is likely to depreciate from 2 to 3 percent in 2013, a recent report by a local stockbrokerage said.
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s economic growth this year may range between 6.7% and 7.2% depending on the impact of a drought that has lasted since the beginning of the year, Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera said on Thursday. The Central Bank has forecast 7.2% economic growth this year, after revising it down in March from the ...
Foreigners most bullish with net buying up 20% or Rs. 5 b; Market’s value up by Rs. 48 b between 20 July and 24 Aug. Despite original reservations by some that President Mahinda Rajapaksa shouldn’t have met with capital market stakeholders, the Colombo stock market has proved otherwise, with the most bullish being foreign investors. ...
People’s Leasing Company (PLC) saw its revenues rise nearly 27% in the June quarter, led by growth in its core leasing business, the group said. In results released to the Colombo Stock Exchange, the country’s biggest leasing company said group revenue rose to Rs. 4,367 million during the first quarter of June 2012, from Rs. ...
Lankan Rupee continued to have a significant adverse ...
Carson Cumberbatch Plc has explained the reasons for the major variance in its FY13 first quarter results ahead of their release. As per an extract of Group income statement drawn from unaudited accounts based on existing SLAS environment, profit after tax for 1Q had slumped to Rs. 27.3 million, from Rs. 5.7 billion a year ...
By Amantha Perera IPS: For many Sri Lankans, the effects of climate change can be summed up in one word: rainfall. “The biggest impact (of climate change) is rainfall or the lack of it,” W.L. Sumathipala, one of Sri Lanka’s foremost experts in changing climate patterns, told IPS on a scorching hot and humid day ...
Standard Chartered Bank has revised Sri Lanka’s credit outlook to stable from positive and is advising bond investors to await the conclusion of Sri Lanka’s $ 1 billion Sovereign issue prior to getting involved in the country’s debt market opportunities. This advise is contained in SCB’s latest Asian sovereign credit coverage. “While we believe that ...
Laugfs Gas PLC and its subsidiaries having recorded a profit after Tax of Rs. 942 million as per the un-audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2012, yesterday announced a payment of first and final dividend of Rs. 1.50 per share for both Ordinary Voting and Non- Voting shares held. Chairman Laugfs Gas ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The third and final day of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2012 organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce commenced with a plenary session titled ‘Skills and Productivity to Compete in the Global Market,’ which discussed the initiatives that are underway and aimed to identify additional steps required to improve the quality ...
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s current monetary policy rates are appropriate despite a spike in inflation last month due to supply constraints, the Central Bank said on Tuesday, a day ahead of its July monetary policy review announcement. The Central Bank has kept both repurchase and reverse repurchase rate at two-year highs of 7.75 percent and 9.75 ...
By Cheranka Mendis The tea industry’s export target of achieving revenue of US$ 5 billion from the present US$ 1.5 billion by 2020 is an overly ambitious one that is likely to be impossible to achieve, Colombo Tea Traders Association Chairman Jayantha Keragala said on Friday at the association’s 118th AGM. Keragala stated that the ...
The Sri Lankan rupee edged down on Monday in thin trade on importer dollar demand, dealers said. The rupee closed at 133.80/90 to the dollar, slightly weaker than Friday’s close of 133.50/70. It hit another in a series of fresh record lows on Thursday, at 134.30. “Still we see pressure
Reuters: The Sri Lankan rupee edged higher on Friday a day after it hit a record low, as exporters and a state bank sold dollars to buy the local currency in thin trade, dealers said. The rupee closed at 133.50/70 to the dollar, a tad firmer from Thursday’s close of 133.80/90. It hit a fresh ...
Reuters: The Sri Lankan rupee market came to a standstill on Tuesday as banks stopped quoting spot prices against the US dollar, after what dealers said was a request from the central to stop trading the ailing currency beyond the 133 level. “The whole market is distorted as central bank does not like to see ...
Reuters: The Sri Lankan rupee traded at a near record low on Monday in thin trade and many banks stopped quoting spot prices. The rupee traded at 132.90 to the dollar, with a state bank selling dollars at that level, traders said. The rupee hit a record low of 133.60 on June 12. Five dealers ...
Sri Lankan Rupee is expected to firm up later this year, while treasury yields could creep up on fiscal slippages, a report said, as the central bank looks for ways to tighten monetary policy.
Despite several short-term challenges, the Sri Lankan rupee may appreciate to Rs 128 against the dollar over the course of the third and fourth quarters of this year, according to a report from Standard Chartered.
Reuters: The Sri Lankan rupee fell to a record low of 133.60 against the dollar on Tuesday on importer demand for the US currency as an IMF delegation went into a sixth day of discussions on the last tranche of a $2.6 billion loan. “The highest trade was done at 133.60 to the dollar, though ...
By Damien The Secretary to the treasury Dr. P.B Jayasundera recently made statement that the country is wasting the foreign currency on things that can be made in this country. I would like to add to this by stating that as a country we should have clear targets and policies that are aimed at both ...
Reuters: The stock market rose more than one per cent on Friday with retail and foreign investors buying shares in thin volumes in an overall skittish market concerned about a weak Sri Lankan Rupee and the outlook for interest rates. The main index gained 1.1 per cent, or 53.03 points, to 4,885.18, its highest since ...
Chennai: Last year, Lanka Ashok Leyland began a unique selling proposition that was meant as much to help a growing economy as to enhance sales. The company, a joint venture of Ashok Leyland Ltd. in Sri Lanka, volunteered to support the Government of Sri Lanka by offering 500 buses to the Sri Lanka Transport Board ...
With the Sri Lankan rupee made to float against the US$ and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) imposing restrictions on commercial banks on lending has caused much concern among the general public.
Dialog Axiata PLC announced yesterday that the depreciation of the SrI lankan Rupee relative to the USD by 12.4% QoQ, resulted in the provisioning of a non-cash translational Foreign Exchange loss of Rs 2.1Bn, leading to the Dialog Group recording a Net loss of Rs 531Mn for Q1 2012. andnbsp;
Still recovering from decades of civil war, Sri Lanka has attracted some private equity interest but firms have found it hard to rally LP support for the country PE Asia: Sri Lanka’s golden sandy beaches lie not 50 kilometres from India’s closest point, but the distance between the two countries’ private equity markets is ...
By CT Smith Stockbrokers CBSL tightens its monetary policy for the second time in 2012 In its Monetary Policy Review for April, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) increased its repurchase rate and reverse repurchase rate by 25bps and 75bps to 7.75% and 9.75% respectively (w.e.f. end 5th April 2012) in order to further ...
Central bank Governor says country is targeting per capita income of $4,000 by 2015Ajit Nivard Cabraal is a man intimately associated with the economic development of Sri Lanka. Well before he became the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, in 2006, Cabraal was the chief economic adviser to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was ...