Sri Lanka will identify systemically important finance companies in 2025 as part of efforts to improve financial regulation, ...

Sri Lanka's insurers have been facing higher claim costs after high claims costs from currency depreciation, and are likely ...

“Accordingly, real GDP is projected to have grown by around 5 percent in 2024, registering the highest annual growth since ...

Sri Lanka's red rice shortage was created by the government through its price controls and import controls, by trying to interfere with the price signals, in a deterioration of policy seen over ...

Sri Lanka's central bank has bought 2,841 million US dollars from banks on a net basis in 2024, official data showed, as the ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Hundreds of online followers of Trade Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe slammed domestic tyre producers after he revealed a request to further control imports, saying it will lead to a ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Hundreds of online followers of Trade Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe slammed domestic tyre producers and urged him to not to ban imports as requested, saying it will lead to a ‘Gota 2’ ...

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka has held a prepatory meeting for an Integrated Field Exercise under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Defence Ministry said, though the international body in charge ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s president has urged gem and jewellery exporters to work to exceed 1 billion dollars in gem and jewellery exports. “Let’s work together to exceed USD 1 billion in gem and ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s average coconut prices were up 18.32 percent, recording the highest price for a coconut in the weekly auction, data from the Coconut Development Authority showed. The weekly ...