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Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:33 am
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In December 2014, headline inflation on a year-on-year basis was at 2.1 per cent compared to 1.5 per cent in the previous month. Core inflation, which directly measures underlying price pressures, continued to remain between 3-4 per cent while decelerating to 3.2 per cent in December 2014 from 3.6 per cent in November. While low inflation is mainly attributable to contained demand pressure in the economy, it was also supported by favourable supply side developments, particularly the downward revisions in domestic energy prices in the last few months of 2014. Subdued demand pressure and inflation expectations in the economy, the favourable impact of further reductions in fuel prices in January 2015, and the expected reduction of administered prices of other key commodities announced in the Government’s ‘100-Day Programme’ are expected to reduce inflation further in the months ahead.

Supported by historically low market interest rates in nominal terms, credit obtained by the private sector from commercial banks continued to expand at a healthy pace. Credit flows to the private sector increased by 6.5 per cent on a year-on-year basis in November 2014, while in absolute terms, the increase was Rs. 57.8 billion during the month, bringing the cumulative credit flows to the private sector to Rs. 147.4 billion during January November 2014. Credit granted against immovable property, plant and machinery, personal Economic Research Department guarantees and promissory notes, and other securities as well as unsecured loans increased substantially in November 2014. It is expected that the increasing trend in private sector credit disbursements can be sustained throughout 2015 providing the necessary impetus to the growth momentum of the economy.

Looking at the real sector, the Sri Lankan economy grew by 7.7 per cent during the third quarter of 2014 supported by strong performance in the Industry and the Services sectors. The Industry sector, which posted a growth of 12.4 per cent in the first half of 2014, maintained its growth momentum in the third quarter recording an expansion of 12.6 per cent. The performance in the Industry sector was supported by the significant growth observed in the construction, manufacturing and mining and quarrying sub sectors. In the meantime, the Services sector grew by 7.0 per cent while the Agriculture sector, which was hampered by weather related disruptions, contracted by 2.0 per cent. With appropriate macroeconomic policies to boost domestic and foreign investor confidence, the Sri Lankan economy is expected to record a robust performance in the period ahead.

Taking the above developments in the economy into consideration, the Monetary Board at its meeting held on 26 January 2015, was of the view that the current monetary policy stance is appropriate, and accordingly, decided to maintain the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka unchanged at 6.50 per cent and 8.00 per cent, respectively. Access to the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) will remain rationalised.

The date for the release of the next regular statement on monetary policy would be announced in due course.

Monetary Policy Decision: Policy interest rates unchanged.
Access to SDF remains rationalised.
Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) 6.50%
Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) 8.00%
Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) 6.00%
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:10 am
Thanks Redbull. Agriculture sector contracted by by 2%!... in an economy which is growing 7.7%....see the problem in misaligned economic priorities......Mr. Mahendran needs to have a very hard look at this sector (including at "weather related disruptions")as this could be potentially disastrous economically and politically.
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:39 am
Thanx god.. they haven't increased the rate, as there were many possibilities to rise the rates. Very Happy
So, hope green on today, let ASI to break 7400.. Very Happy
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:40 am
it is good if government is committed to maintain low interest rate.
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:43 am
NC` wrote:Thanx god.. they haven't increased the rate, as there were many possibilities to rise the rates. Very Happy
So, hope green on today, let ASI to break 7400.. Very Happy

This is positive news. I do not know how the market would react to Thilak appointment. I am happy even if it can maintain flat for few weeks until things are settled down.

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Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:45 am
Thanks RB , +
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:12 am
This is the best move.

CB governor just took  office. We would not be in a position to assess anything for himself this quick any case. Also it is best to wait for the mini budget to see the policies to adjust any CB stands.


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Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:30 am
Thanx guys

Central bank keeps policy rates unchanged..taking into consideration of remaining low inflation of the island... LBO News

So the MY3 administration accept that MR inflation rate is ok... thanx god.. So the inflation rates were not manipulated by MR administration

Hope a green day
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ජනවාරි මහ බැංකු ප්‍රතිපත්ති පොලිය නිහඩයි


(www.randora.lk-27/01/15) – තවදුරටත් රටේ පවත්නා අඩු පොලි අනුපාතික තත්ත්වයන් එලෙසින්ම පවත්වා ගෙන යාමට දිරියක් දෙමින් මෙම ජනවාරි මස සදහාත් මහ බැංකුවේ ස්වකිය ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය පොලි අනුපාත තවදුරටත් නොවෙනස්ව තබා ගැනිමට ඊයේ 26 දා රැස් වු මහ බැංකුවේ නව මුදල් මණ්ඩලය තීරණය කර ඇතැයි නිවේදනය කරයි.

මේ අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව විසින් නිත්‍ය තැන්පතු පහසුකම් අනුපාතිකය (SDFR) හා නිත්‍ය ණය පහසුකම් අනුපාතිකය (SLFR) පිළිවෙළින් 6.50% සහ 8% ලෙස නොවෙනස්ව පවත්වා ගැනීමට තීරණය කළ බව මහ බැංකුව කියයි.

මහ බැංකු දත්ත වලට අනුව නොවැම්බර් මාසයේදී පුද්ගලික අංශය වාණිජ බැංකු වලින් ලබාගත් ණය ප්‍රමාණය රුපියල් බිලියන 57.8 කින් හෙවත් සියයට 6.5 කින් පසුගිය වසරේ එම කාලයට සාපේක්ෂව වර්ධනය වී ඇත. මෙම පුද්ගලික අංශයේ ණය වර්ධනය සිදු ව ඇත්තේ අඛණ්ඩව සිවිවන මසට බව කියන මහ බැංකුව මේ අනුව ගිය වසරේ මුල් මාස 11 තුළ රුපියල් බිලියන 147.4 ක ණය පුද්ගලික අංශය මුදා හැර ඇත.

අභීනව සභාපතිවරයෙකු යටතේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ මුදල් මණ්ඩලය ඊයේ සවස රැස් වි තිබෙන අතර මේ සදහා අභීනව සභාපති මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍ර හා මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් ආර්.එචි.එස් සමරතුංග මහතා මුල් වරට නිල බලයෙන් මෙම මුදල් මණ්ඩල රැස්විමට සහභාගි වි ඇත.

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නව රජයෙන් ළඟදීම ජාත්‍යන්තර බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවක්. ඉඟිය මහ බැංකු අධිපතිගෙන්

වත්මන් රජය විසින් අතුරු අයවැය ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් පසුව ලබන පෙබරවාරියේදී සෛවරීත්ව බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවක් සිදුකිරීමට සැලසුම් කර ඇතැයි මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතා සඳහන් කර ඇත.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මීට පෙර සැලසුම් කර තිබුණේ ඩොලර් මිලියන 500 ක බැඳුම්කර ජනවාරි 21 වනදා කල් පිරීම හමුවේ ජාත්‍යන්තර බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවක් මගින් ඩොලර් බිලියන 1.5 ක මුදලක් රැස්කර ගැනීමටයි.

මීටපෙර ලංකාවට ජාත්‍යන්තර බැඳුම්කර නිකුතු සිදුකිරීම සඳහා Citibank, Standard Chartered සහ HSBC යන බැංකු වලින් සහාය ලැබුණි.
මේ අතර, මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා සඳහන් කර තිබෙන්නේ දේශීය වශයෙන් රැස්කර ගන්නා ආදායම ඉහළ දැමීම මගින් අනාගතයේදී ජාත්‍යන්තරව රැස්කර ගන්නා මුදල් අඩුකිරීමේ අදහසක් තිබෙන බවයි.

ජනවාරි 29 වනදා රජය විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිත අතුරු අයවැය මගින් බදු ක්‍රමය සරල කිරීමටද කටයුතු කර තිබේ.

බටහිර රටවල පොලී අනුපාත ඉතාමත් අඩු මට්ටමක තිබෙන නිසා එම රටවලින් පහසුවෙන් ලංකාවට ණය ලබාගත හැකි බවත් විදේශීය ණයදෙන ආයතනවල විශ්වාසය වැඩිකරමින් ඉදිරියේදී ලංකාවේ අයවැය හිඟය තවදුරටත් අඩුකිරීමට වත්මන් රජය ක්‍රියාකරනු ඇති බවත් හෙතෙම අවධාරණය කර ඇත.

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