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Sun, 05 February 2012 02:27:09

Equity Effort 2012-02-04 12:04:00 2 comment(s)

Central bank raised policy rates by 50 basis. Is that a big deal ? Interest rates will be increased by .5%. For an example if the saving rates were about 6.5% it will jump to 7%. Countinues hiking of ...

Express Fitness 2012-02-04 10:04:17 6 comment(s)

Agree with all comments. Annual revenue licensing process is the best opportunity to ensure that the vehicles are roadworthy and also comply with the emissions limits. As we progress, we can't hold on...

Unrest Impact 2012-02-04 03:10:53 1 comment(s)

The demand now is for green tea and not the traditional black tea....

Knitwear Trend 2012-02-03 17:13:34 2 comment(s)

Growth is there, but profits is down. well buyers should know this is a commodity like business with no pricing power....

Capital Plan 2012-02-03 12:39:07 1 comment(s)

Hats off to MR and Gota - Colombo Metro is certainly on the fast track to becoming another world class Asian city and all of us Colombo folks will benefit....

Smoke Signals 2012-02-03 10:27:25 2 comment(s)

Fools Paradise! Getting taxes while killing the people. Cigarettes should be banned, there is no doubt about the ill effects....

Warrant Warning 2012-02-03 10:10:48 2 comment(s)

I'm really curious about how greg is going to pay for that platinum mine of theirs. I was under the impression that mine purchase was supposed to be financed using money from these warrant conversions...

Rate Defence 2012-02-03 09:26:44 1 comment(s)

Only 50bp hike?? Come, come more radical steps might need to be taken especially when bank lending and deposit rates are shooting up (up almost 300bp in last 2 months)....

Price Trend 2012-02-02 08:35:08 2 comment(s)

One should not be complacent about it because of the decline in the point to point average due to the high base level in Jan last year. Prices are still rising and in January they have risen by 0.3 pe...

Business Trips 2012-02-01 22:46:54 6 comment(s)

These comments are typically srilankan, as one has written what ever happens good or bad , we complain!! I think it is a good idea to give a passport with more pages if not another colour or help wit...

Freight Weakness 2012-02-01 12:19:24 2 comment(s)

Expo Lanka showed a huge profit just before they went for IPO. As soon as after they come to market Director sold huge amount of shares in the market knowing that company's EPS will not be same as it ...

Import Flows 2012-02-01 08:43:40 1 comment(s)

"We are concerned about credit growth. We were expecting a moderation in the fourth quarter, but it didn't materialize," Cabraal said.

"We have various instruments if we want to reduce the press...

Rate Controversy 2012-02-01 06:01:06 5 comment(s)

When there are so many qualified personal available to be the head of Central Bank, how capable Mr. Cabral is to run it.Couldn't he explain this earlier s there is no mis understand.Why govt. need to ...

Water Flow 2012-02-01 05:21:02 1 comment(s)

It's a good move to reconstruct the irrigation in the war torn areas. The Sri Lankan government is well known to divert aid and loans intended for rebuilding the warn torn north and east to the south....

Timber Harvest 2012-02-01 00:55:33 4 comment(s)

What type of trees are proposed to be harvested?
True the tea industry is our flagship commodity, and one of the top 3 contributors to the economy. But at the cost of swaths of invaluable ecosyst...

Scanned Access 2012-01-31 20:27:25 1 comment(s)

Close Relations 2012-01-31 20:18:20 16 comment(s)

Wen Shengil lives in a country where concepts such as transparency and good governance are not known. So his ramblings understood, very well indeed.

Until now its very rare in our history such h...

Lease Business 2012-01-31 14:32:35 2 comment(s)

Yes Paul, it was formerly known as Ceylinco Development Bank....

Monetary Reserves 2012-01-31 09:21:21 4 comment(s)

Wy not cancel all the chinese loans which has a interest rate of 6% and go for the imf bailout which has a interst rate of only 3%.

govt wants the rest of d funds from IMF- but IMF is not ready ...

Choices 2012-01-31 08:28:54 1 comment(s)

This is a really interesting story about telecom reform, and Prof.Rohan was the DG of the Telecommunication Regulation Commission at that time if my Memory is correct. Then he knows the difficulty of ...

Peg Defence 2012-01-30 13:49:25 5 comment(s)

The Problem lies here. Economic Minister who is only a politician is trying to preach economics. Treasury Secretary who is supposed to be an economist is playing politics.We the people suffer due to t...

Food Power 2012-01-30 11:09:03 14 comment(s)

What about weapons, explosives, ammunition etc? We import those also. Can't we use traditional weapons - swords, hella, stones etc. We could save a lot of money?...

Side Effects 2012-01-30 09:13:52 3 comment(s)

Understand Colombo stock market does represent Sri Lankan economy unlike other countries. It consists of only a very few companies. It doesn't show anything about the whole economy of Sri Lanka....

Budget Behaviour 2012-01-28 21:20:54 1 comment(s)

Not only Air Asia, some other airlines hide taxes and surcharges when we use online booking. They first display a lower amount and when we go to pay they add other charges at the last moment. It is ...

Strong Message 2012-01-28 18:06:25 1 comment(s)

Why are you going to Europe to create jobs? Come to Sri Lanka!...

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