Economic

The tourist arrivals for the first 24 days of October have reached 31,828, bringing the total number of international visitors to the country to 558,068 for the year so far.

මෙරට උද්ධමනය යළි ඉහළ ගොස් තිබෙනවා. අද නිකුත් කළ ජන ලේඛන හා සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සැප්තැම්බර් මස වාර්තාවට අනුව මෙරට උද්ධමනය දැක්වෙන්නේ සියයට 73.7 ක් ලෙසයි.

Fitch Ratings said yesterday rated Sri Lankan corporates in consumer-goods retail, power generation and homebuilding will be among the most affected if the economic crisis deepens or is sustained for a prolonged period.

ගනුදෙනු ‌පැවැත්වෙන වේලාව පැය 3ක් වෙයි

ගෝලීය දේශපාලන හා ආර්ථික අර්බුද හමුවේ මෙරට රත්තරං වෙළඳපොලට ද දැඩි බලපෑමක් එල්ලවී තිබෙනවා. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් මෙම කාල සමය රත්තරං මිල ඉහළ යන සමයක් වුවද මේ වන විට රත්තරං මිල කැපී පෙනෙන ලෙස පහළ ගොස් තිබීම විශේෂත්වයක්.

විදුලිබිල උත්පාදනය සදහා වැඩිම බලපෑමක්

LITRO Gas Lanka Limited has introduced a mobile application 'LITRO Home Delivery', which makes it easy for local and overseas residents to receive gas cylinders.

මෙරට ජනතාවගෙන් බදු අයකරගන්නා ක්‍රමවේදය ඉදිරියේදී වෙනස් කළ යුතු බව මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ පවසනවා.

Joint Association of Leasing and Debt Instalment Payers has filed six petitions before the Colombo District Courts against the seizure of vehicles by finance and leasing companies for the non-payment of instalments. Association President Asanka Ruwan Pothupitiya alleged that finance and leasing companies are continuing to illegally seize vehicles over unpaid loan instalments.

අනවසරයෙන් ජනතාවගෙන් මුදල් තැන්පතු භාරගත් පොලොන්නරුවේ සහන් අකලංක නමැති පුද්ගලයාට ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව තහනම් නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.

50-storey complex positions as Colombo’s most distinctive office space with HSBC Electronic Data Processing Lanka taking up eight floors
Strategically located in the heart of the capital, lauded as Colombo’s most distinctive office space of the future, the Mireka Tower at Havelock City was ceremoniously opened by President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday.

$ 451.46 m worth of shipments highest for the month in any year but year on year growth slows to 5%
Sept. fails to sustain three-month streak of over half a billion dollar performance
Exports to US falls first time in recent times but gains in EU, UK
First nine months exports at all-time high of $ 4.3 b up 18.4% year on year
Future outlook not promising due to challenges in major markets

Says mostly fixed-rate loans of these firms get repriced slowly than their liabilities, crimping their margins

The Ceylon Motor Traders Association (CTMA) yesterday expressed serious concerns over their viability in the face of the latest increases in taxes when the industry is suffering most from the import ban.

In a strong stand amidst rising opposition to higher taxation, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce acknowledges rationale for recently proposed tax changes but calls on Govt. to show greater restraint, accountability and transparency on its spending
Insists tax hike will invariably impact businesses and private sector employees adversely in the current context of high inflation and negative economic growth
Moots widening of base to ensure burden does not fall on current base consisting of a small number of corporates and salaried workforce to a large extent
Opines tax revenue not being fully utilised for the benefit of the people
Calls for re-look at recurrent expenditure on public sector salaries of which 30% was spent on Provincial Councils, while 34% absorbed by defence, policy and public security in 2021
Stresses need for genuine efforts to unlock growth and investment opportunities through SOE reforms

Says Sri Lanka has made good progress in restructuring debt at IMF meetings held a fortnight ago
“Had we acted earlier, we could have attempted other things,” says Dr. Weerasinghe referring to SL’s bleak foreign reserves position
SL expects to obtain financing assurances from its creditors by Dec. and activate US $ 2.9bn IMF bailout package by Jan. 2023

ඊයේ(19) දිනයේ ඉහළ ගිය රන් මිල අද වැඩි අගයකින් පහළ බැස තිබේ.

මෙරට ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යූහගත කරන වැඩසටහන ප්‍රමාද නොකර ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ යුතු බව කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය ආචාර්ය ප්‍රියංග දුණුසිංහ පවසනවා.