Tourist arrivals for the first 15 days of September totaled 14,833, bringing the arrivals for the January 1 to September 15 period to 511,263.
The net foreign inflow to the Colombo stock market neared the Rs. 7 billion mark in the month of September so far, supported by SG Holdings buying into Expolanka Holdings PLC among others.
ACU Tea Factory situated in Madampe, managed by Udeni Liyanage, achieved an all-time record price under ACU Super selling mark at the weekly tea auction held on 20/21 September, by securing a significant price of Rs. 12,000 per kg for FBOPFSp grade in the Low Grown category.
The Colombo stock market sustained its upward movement yesterday helping the benchmark index to move to the 10,000 point level once again amidst healthy turnover and net foreign inflow.
The year-to-date net foreign inflow to the Colombo stock market rose to Rs. 10 billion largely driven by Japan’s SG Holdings buying into Sri Lanka’s most valuable blue chip Expolanka Holdings PLC.
The Colombo stock market yesterday marked its third consecutive week of gain signalling sustained bullish investor sentiment by both locals and foreign.
Contrary to the Daily FT report of yesterday, the dairy industry said there will be no change in the prices of milk powder in the local market as yet.
Expectations for manufacturing activities for next three months indicated an improvement in August for first time since February
Services sector expectations up optimism clouded by concerns over import restrictions, increase in taxes and various other uncertainties
පවතින ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් ගොඩ ඒම සඳහා අප නැවතත් ආර්ථික ස්ථායීතාව ඇතිකර ගනිමින් ණය තිරසරභාවය කරා පැමිණෙන බව ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලටත් අපේ ණය හිමියන්ටත් පෙන්වා දිය යුතුව ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා මහබැංකුවේ අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මහතා පවසයි.
Dialog Axiata Group, the largest Foreign Direct Investor (FDI) operating under the aegis of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), yesterday announced the entering into of two supplementary agreements with the BOI for the investment of an additional sum of $ 152.4 million (Rs. 56.7 billion) in Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications and ICT Infrastructure.
Foreign inflow persists with net buying of Rs. 793 m led by Expolanka
Sept.-to-date net foreign inflow tops Rs. 5 b mark
Local interests return to banking sector stocks
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