Sri Lanka central bank buys US$950mn so far in 2023

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    ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank has been able to buy 950 million US dollars more from commercial banks than it sold so far in 2023, according to International Monetary Fund documents.

    “Thus far in 2023, the CBSL has been able to purchase over US$ 950 million on a net basis towards building up reserves, ” Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Executive Director for Sri Lanka and Chandranath Amarasekara, Alternate Executive Director said in a statement released with IMF documents.

    In 2023 the central bank has to buy 1.4 billion US dollars to build foreign reserves under the IMF program.


    - https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-central-bank-buys-us950mn-amid-negative-credit-so-far-2023-116184/
     

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    ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank has been able to buy 950 million US dollars more from commercial banks than it sold so far in 2023, according to International Monetary Fund documents.

    “Thus far in 2023, the CBSL has been able to purchase over US$ 950 million on a net basis towards building up reserves, ” Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Executive Director for Sri Lanka and Chandranath Amarasekara, Alternate Executive Director said in a statement released with IMF documents.

    In 2023 the central bank has to buy 1.4 billion US dollars to build foreign reserves under the IMF program.


    - https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-central-bank-buys-us950mn-amid-negative-credit-so-far-2023-116184/
    Imports in Sri Lanka averaged 1269.18 USD Million from 2001 until 2023,
    https://tradingeconomics.com/sri-la...ri Lanka averaged,Million in February of 2002.

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    monson

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    ඉතින් ඔය දැනුත් imports තියෙන්නේ 1300-1400 USD million ගණන් monthly. 2014-2019 normal කාලෙට වඩා ලොකු අඩුවක් නැහැනේ :lol:

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