Sri Lanka’s only capital market’s Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share Price Index (ASPI) crashed to below 6,000 points today (18). ASPI closed at 5,971.21 points, for a second time in in 3 years since 8^th January 2015, whilst ASPI last time crashed below 6,000 points on 22nd March 2017, almost 18 month’s ago.

Sri Lanka’s CSE’s ASPI first reached historic 6,000 points on 9^th September 2010, just about a year after 18^th May 2009, when the country’s then government announced that country’s military forces had defeated the terrorism that haunted the country for over 30 years since 1980’s