Economic

පාස්ක ප්‍රහාරය හේතුවෙන් කඩා වැටුණු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය මේ වනවිට දැවැන්ත අනතුරකට මුහුණ දී ඇති බව ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල අවධාරණය කරනවා. කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්වයත් සමග ආර්ථිකය බරපතල අවිනිශ්චිත මට්ටමකට පත්ව ඇති බවයි එම ආයතනය පවසන්නේ.

Workers remittances have plunged to a new low of $ 259 million in January heralding a challenging start for the new year for the Central Bank which has been executing multiple measures to woo inflows via official channels. The figure of $ 259.2 million in January is down by nearly 62% from a year ago and lowest in 13 years. The previous lowest was $ 261.6 million in November 2009.

The Central Bank yesterday said that the services sector expanded in January contrary to a dip as reported by the Daily FT yesterday.

පැරසිටමෝල් පෙත්තක නව මිල මෙන්න

Net credit to the Government had ballooned by Rs. 1.7 trillion or 38% to end 2021 at Rs. 6.28 trillion. In 2020 the figure stood at Rs. 4.55 trillion.

Headline inflation in January had risen to 16.8% as against 14% in the previous month, the Census and Statistics Department (DCS) revealed yesterday.

Posts Rs. 43.2 b Profit Before Tax
Achieves revenue growth of 17%
Net Interest income up 49% to Rs. 111.3 b
Total Assets reach another milestone at Rs. 3.8 t
Deposits and Advances base now well over Rs. 2 t

මහ බැංකු අධිපතිගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්

Ansell Managing Director and CEO Neil Salmon says SL is a global leadership location with 6,000-strong workforce important part and key contributor to global growth as sales top $ 2 b mark in FY21 with over 20% growth
Lankan talent developing latest and innovative technologies that are widely used at Ansell manufacturing sites globally serving customers in over 100 countries
R&D team in SL is developing first glove containing recycled yarn
Says reliance of Ansell on Sri Lanka is a testimony of capabilities of local young engineers and science graduates
Largest multinational corporation in SL, Ansell investing over $ 10 m for expansion of Clean Room packaging facility to service needs of high growth global pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturing industries, another value addition operation for surgical gloves and SL’s single largest solar energy plant with over 7 MW

World’s biggest lines MSC and Maersk suspend container shipping to and from Russia, deepening country’s isolation
Tea exporters to Russia worry over prospects

Finance Ministry pledges US $ 56mn for global promotion campaign
Funds to be directed towards campaign by 2Q22
Tourism Min says preliminary work of campaign already completed
Campaign management unit, creative agency and digital agency to be appointed
PR firms scheduled to be selected before end of 1Q22

CB Governor Cabraal tells Bloomberg that steady inflow of forex expected in near future
Hopeful the expected inflows to be non-debt creating
Says current exchange rate a “fair one” that provides opportunities for all stakeholders

LONDON (Reuters): Oil prices surged yesterday as concerns over supply disruptions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions outweighed talks of a coordinated global crude stocks release.

2022 වසරේ 23.02.2022 දක්වා දිවයිනට පැමිණ ඇති මුළු විදේශීය සංචාරකයින් සංඛ්‍යාව 150,000 ඉක්මවා ගිය බව වාර්තා වේ.

නියමිත ණය සීමාව ඉක්මවා ලංකා ඛනිජ තෙල් සංස්ථාවට ණය නිකුත් නොකරන ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහබැංකුව විසින් රාජ්‍ය බැංකු වෙත උපදෙස් ලබාදී තිබේ.

Higher duties on 700 non-essential imports; voluntary flexible working hours among suggestions Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal has mooted new measures to boost foreign exchange earnings whilst saving scarce reserves and awaiting a positive response from the Government.

රට තුළ පවතින සිමෙන්ති හිඟය අවම කරමින් ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට ලංවා සංස්ථා සමාගම කටයුතු කිරීමට පියවර ගෙන ඇති බවට වාර්තා වෙයි.

විදෙස් ණය ලබාගැනීමේදී පවතින රජයන්ට සීමා පැනවිය යුතු බව ආර්ථික විශ්ලේෂකයින් පෙන්වා දෙනවා. නෙත් නිවුස් කළ කරුණු විමසීමකදී කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය ආචාර්ය ප්‍රියංග දුනුසිංහ පැවසුවේ දැනට පවතින නීති අනුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අනුමැතිය ලබාගෙන විදෙස් ණය ලබාගත හැකි බවයි.