Colombo bourse started the weekly operations in negative territory on Monday amid bearish investor sentiments. Main index lost 21.44 points (-0.29%) to end at 7,287.59 while 20-script S&P SL index marginally lost 3.36 points (-0.08%) to end at 4,080.81. All share price index gained 133.69 points (+1.9%) so far this month whereas S&P SL 20…
Law enforcement officers have arrested several persons in the recent past while attempting to smuggle gold through Sri Lanka. Hence, Ada Derana BIZ 24X7 inquired Amendra Collections chairman Anura Eliyapura on his opinion whether there were any gold smuggling active through Sri Lanka. This is the full video interview Ada Derana 24X7 TV channel’s BIZ…
The missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people to Singapore from Surabaya is thought to have crashed into the sea, a senior Indonesian rescue agency official told Reuters on Monday. “Based on our coordinates, we expect it is in the sea, so for now (we think) it is on the sea floor,” said Soelistyo, head…
AirAsia’s flight QZ8501 took off from Juanda international airport in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, at 5.20am, six minutes after sunrise. The plane seated 180 but only 155 passengers were on board, allowing a few lucky ones to stretch their legs into empty adjacent seats. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Singapore about two…
Airports have been busy on Christmas Eve as many people choose to get away for the festive season. About four million people are estimated to be heading abroad between 19 December and 3 January. However trains were quieter than usual with fewer people commuting and the Highways Agency reported no major problems on England’s main…
East West Properties PLC is to purchase 36 million ordinary shares of Weligama Hotel Properties Limited at Rs. 09 per share. The total value of this major transaction is Rs. 324 million.
In line with the decision announced in the Budget 2015 to increase the deposit insurance cover by fifty percent, the Sri Lanka Deposit Insurance and Liquidity Support Scheme (SLDILSS) will increase its deposit insurance coverage per-depositor per institution from Rs.200,000/-to Rs. 300,000/, with effect from 01.01.2015. The Regulations on the revised insurance cover has been…
Colombo stock market rebound on Wednesday where both indices witnessed positive returns. Main index bagged 25.20 index points or 0.35% to end at 7,263.50 while 20-scrip S&P SL index gained slightly by 6.58 index points (+0.16%) to close at 4,069.75. Price inclines in Commercial Leasing (closed at LKR 4.70, +9.3%), Dialog Axiata (closed at LKR…
Gold, the ultimate inflation hedge, isn’t much use to investors these days. Oil is in a bear-market freefall that began in June, spearheading the longest commodity slump in at least a generation. The collapse means that instead of the surge in consumer prices that gold buyers have been expecting for much of the past decade,…
A global arms trade treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar business has come into force – a move hailed as “a new chapter” by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. He said he hoped the treaty would help prevent the transfer of weapons to “warlords, human rights abusers, terrorists and criminal organisations”. The deal also bans arms supplies if…
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