By V.Satkuneswaran Sharma ACMA (UK)

Although I don’t say I am a professional stock market investor, I do spend quite a lot of time observing the market and researching the highs and lows of various companies. My line of work gives me a lot ...
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2012-10-31 01:30:00 Hits: (3,369) Comments (0)

Colombo Stock Exchange benchmark All Share Index (ASI) hit the 6,000 mark yesterday but joy was short-lived with the index dropping to close at 5,964.29.

Market’s momentum was sluggish yesterday as most blue-chips saw their prices dropping. Turnover levels were ...
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2012-10-02 13:49:00 Hits: (3,277) Comments (0)

Market opened the week with retailers taking the limelight, with buying interest on retail heavy counters outdoing  selling pressure to lay a solid platform for better times ahead, Lanka Securities Research reported.

Foreign participation declined as it was evident ...
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2012-09-02 17:06:00 Hits: (3,171) Comments (0)

Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) closed at a three-month high yesterday with turnover hitting a two-month high on block deals in conglomerate Aitken Spence PLC.

The Colombo Stock Exchange’s main index All Share Index (ASI) gained 0.58 %, or 29.55 points, to 5,102.65. The ...
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2012-08-29 15:17:00 Hits: (3,125) Comments (0)

Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed gains across the board with its benchmark All Share Index (ASI) surpass the 5,000 mark after stagnating for nearly two months and gaining 82 point.

Meanwhile the more liquid Milanka Price Index (MPI) gained 99 points with continuing ...
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2012-08-23 15:41:00 Hits: (3,162) Comments (0)

Colombo Bourse hit the 23 month low on Wednesday but edged up in the last two days as bargain hunters picked up battered blue-chips. 

The main share index declined by 86.48 index points (-1.8%WoW) to end at 4,798.70 at the end of the week which is near the major ...
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2012-06-10 09:53:00 Hits: (3,058) Comments (0)

Sri Lankan share prices on Monday edged up after nine straight days in the red, largely driven by buying interests in oil palm stocks, brokers said.

Colombo’s broader All Share Index (ASI) crept up 0.15 % or 7.75 points to close at 5,116.31 while the liquid Milanka ...
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2012-05-15 12:41:00 Hits: (2,858) Comments (0)

Sri Lanka's capital market watchdog- Securities and Exchange said it was lifting a 'price band' imposed on volatile stocks with immediate effect, but will continue to monitor the market and to re-impose it if needed.

“The 299th  meeting of the Securities and ...
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2012-04-20 12:17:00 Hits: (2,666) Comments (0)

Opines Bartleet Religare Securities

Market attractiveness and certain positive news from the macro-economic front with the receipt of the next tranche of IMF loan, kept the sentiments alive towards the end of the month , stated Bartleet ...
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2012-04-17 10:02:00 Hits: (2,554) Comments (0)

By Amrith Gunasekara

With the latest upgrade that came the Colombo Stock Exchange saw with transition to - ATS 7, the market sentiment has been completely destroyed, almost all investors opine.

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2012-03-26 09:58:00 Hits: (2,113) Comments (0)

Badulla Police have arrested a court peon (arachchi) attached to the Badulla Magistrate's chamber for allegedly stealing an ATM card from the Magistrate ...

Five Australia-bound Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka left stranded at a hotel in Coimbatore were rescued by the police late Wednesday (22) evening. The ...

Sri Lankan Airlines has signed a provisional deal with Airbus worth $ 1.3 billion to buy six A330-300 and four A350-900 aircraft between 2014 and 2023 to ...

The controversial right wing Sinhala Buddhist association, Ravana Balaya, has warned that steps will be taken to address the issue concerning a Japanese ...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) expects nothing less than complete devolution of financial, police and land powers through the 13th Amendment to the ...

Emirates will increase services to Colombo from June 30. This will increase the number of flights between the two cities to four each day on those ...

A 1 year and 4 months old infant who sustained injuries after being run over by a jeep in a house in the Tangalle area has died after being admitted to the ...

The National Investigations Department (DNI) of the Dominican Republic arrested members of a people trafficking network with possible links to international ...

On Thursday, the Q branch of the Tamil Nadu police, with the assistance of the Ernakulam North police, took 21 Sri Lankans who were about to sail to ...

A Buddhist monk has set himself on fire at the car park of a prominent Hotel close to Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy in protest against the slaughtering of ...

Thirty- three persons who had fallen ill due to food poisoning after attending a pooja at a Kovil in the Thirukovil area in Ampara have been admitted to the ...

Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has granted lawyers access to two Tamil asylum seekers who feared they would be removed to Sri Lanka.

Notwithstanding the fact that previous attempts to escape from refugee camps in search of greener pastures in Australia through the sea route had ...

The discipline instilled form Buddha;s teaching enabled our nation to achieve a great culture, bringing worldwide honor and respect to us as a nation states ...