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Thousands of paddy farmers are struggling to recover after Rajapaksa banned agro chemicals.
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- 400 new teachers for the Central Province (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is desperate for foreign currency earnings through tourism
- Sri Lanka MP comes with saline to cast a presidential vote (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stock index gains over 1.6 pct in mid-day (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imposes curfew in Colombo district from July 14-15 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s new “diplomatic” PM starts foreign aid talks amid political stability concerns (Category: Breaking News)
The 5th monetary policy for 2022 is scheduled for Thursday and market is waiting for some cues.
Fuel shortage has led the country almost to a stand still.
- Tablet Rise (Category: Business)
- Bunker Business (Category: Business)
- LIOC makes request for price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Govt. should be ashamed of raising fuel price (Category: Breaking News)
Thousands of Sri Lankan farmers protested against the government demanding chemical fertilizer
- Sri Lanka to commence urea distribution on July 12 (Category: Breaking News)
- Fertilizer subsidy extended to all crops in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to set up 25 organic fertilizer production units (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President promises to extend the fertilizer subsidy to vegetable farmers (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka foreign remittances have plummeted more than 50% in the first 5 months of this year.
- Youth transferring money via Undiyal arrested with foreign currency (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka police arrest 3 for using undiyal money transaction (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank blocked retail fuel sales for dollars: Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is wrong scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
Commercial banks offered dollars for telegraphic transfers at rates between 366.79 and 370.00 for small transactions
Sri Lanka’s total debt burden increased to Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today. He said that Sri Lanka needs to pay $3.4 billion between June and December this year, $5.8 billion in 2023, $4.9 billion in 2024, $6.2 billion in 2025, $4.0 billion in 2026 and $4.3 billion […]
- Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s full statement on IMF negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives financial assurance letter from China (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- President blames Sajith for crisis (Category: Breaking News)
ASPI down 1.19% at 1130 hours
Food prices in Sri Lanka rose 80.1 percent in the 12 months from June 2021 to June 2022.
- Sri Lanka’s inflation increases to 66.7% in July (Category: Breaking News)
- Inflation dips to 4.6%: Dept. of Census and Statistics (Category: Breaking News)
- Inflation drops to 5.1 % in February (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka inflation hits 54.6-pct in June 2022 after money printing (Category: Breaking News)
Expects to bring debt to 95-pct of GDP by 2032
- OTC Oversight (Category: Business)
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- Expert Advice (Category: Business)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is expecting a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund by August 2022, after a financial advisors work out a debt restructuring plan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.“We have to give them a debt restructuring plan,” Wickremesinghe told parliament.“Financial and legal advisors Lazard and Clifford Chance are preparing the rep...
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
China displaced to third place
- Sri Lanka investment goods, non-foods import fall overtakes oil cost in April 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- USD 474.6 million received from expat SL workers in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gets World Bank loans to support Small and Medium Enterprises and tourism (Category: Breaking News)
- Increase in workers’ remittances (Category: Breaking News)
Forex loss Rs145bn
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
Economic activities have significantly slowed down due to fuel shortage.
- Tablet Rise (Category: Business)
- Bunker Business (Category: Business)
- LIOC makes request for price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Govt. should be ashamed of raising fuel price (Category: Breaking News)
Bond market was active in thin trade
- Education Department robbed (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodies of a couple found in hotel room (Category: Breaking News)
- New Supreme Court Judge sworn in (Category: Breaking News)
- Police probe death of Swiss national (Category: Breaking News)
One trillion rupee hole in the CPC balance sheet
- New headquarters for Petroleum Corporation, more fuel stations in North (Category: Business)
- Thanks to its generosity to gas station owners, CPC bleeding to death, says FSP (Category: Breaking News)
- CPC Still Running At A Loss (Category: Breaking News)
- Admiral Ravi W receives diplomatic appointment (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tax revenues grew 27 percent from a year ago to 543.6 billion rupees up to April 2022 partly helped by one-off retrospective tax, official data showed while inflation also started to gallop which tends to boost nominal turnover based taxes.By April Sri Lanka’s 12-month inflation had hit 29.8 percent but many traded goods had risen higher.The first instal...
- Sri Lanka tax revenues surge 25-pct up to June in inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tax revenues grow 29-pct up to May amid inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economic recovery, a common minimum program (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka has no final decision yet on domestic debt re-structuring (Category: Breaking News)
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- Schizophrenia In The Political Mind Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- A Simple Way Out Of The Constitutional Trap (Category: Breaking News)
- A Few Reflections On The Sri Lanka’s Independence Day (Category: Breaking News)
- On The Issue Of The Failure To Obtain Justice For The Victims Of The Easter Sunday Massacre (Category: Breaking News)
Investors expect a policy rate hike on July 07
Sampath Bank PLC announced the appointment of veteran international banker and risk management consultant Hiran Cabraal as Non-Executive, Independent Director to its Board of Directors, with effect from 30th June 2022. With a rich and diverse experience and a proven 34-year international track record in leadership roles, Hiran Anthony Cabraal brings with him a wealth […]
- HSBC senior executive meets Cabraal (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC to provide $400 million to banks in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- HSBC Group GM calls on CB Chief (Category: Business)
- SampathCards introduces real time Rewards Points Redemption at Keells Supermarkets for the first... (Category: Breaking News)
As protein prices soared with money printing and currency collapse, Koreans developed army base stew from leftovers
- Sri Lanka is wrong scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, world suffers terribly from Fed’s accidental discovery: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka removes ban on open account food imports (Category: Breaking News)
Fuel will be issued on a daily or weekly basis from the 12th
- Sri Lanka: petrol price hike will fuel inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's rising inflation in April due to escalating fuel prices (Category: Breaking News)
- Petrol price hike will fuel inflation - CB (Category: Breaking News)
- Petrol price hike will fuel inflation:CB (Category: Breaking News)
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- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- The Victory Of Aragalaya: What Actually Happened To Gota & Ranil? (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic Growth, National Security, And What Next For Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Exports to Russia and Turkey too have dropped steeply
- Smallholders target 300 million kilograms of tea this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran to buy more Sri Lanka tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran to buy more Sri Lanka tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran to buy more Sri Lanka tea (Category: Breaking News)
Empty streets reduce emissions, lack of chemical fertilizer promotes organic food
- Sri Lanka mulls food security bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka mulls Food Security Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President concerned over rising food prices (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Lanka self-sufficient in rice' (Category: Breaking News)
From July 12, companies that have the ability to pay for fuel in dollar can open consumer ACC at CPC
- Sri Lanka seeks US$500mn credit from India (Category: Breaking News)
- Wimal fires at fuel gamble (Category: Breaking News)
- Targeting Exercise (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka does not rule out fuel rationing: PM (Category: Breaking News)
On June 22 sale, low grown averaged 4.05 dollars a kilogram up from 2.92 dollars a year earlier
- Sri Lanka’s Low Grown tea price slip in August 1-week sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka low-grown tea prices slips in June second week sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lank tea sharply up in rupee terms after currency collapse (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Low Grown tea prices shoots up to 5-week high in May 07 sale (Category: Breaking News)
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- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Looking At The Problem Of The Point Of View Of The State (Category: Breaking News)
- We Are On Course To A Dual Currency Regimen (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Cares About The People? (Category: Breaking News)
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the International Monetary Fund s agreement with Sri Lanka must be contingent on Central Bank independence, strong anti-corruption measures and promotion of the rule of law.
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