#SriLanka shares slip over 2% in mid-day trade on Tuesday (04) continuing the sentiments from the previous day.
The main index ASPI is down 261.54 points while the market generated a turnover of 3 billion rupees.
Top losers - Lanka IOC, Expolanka and John Keells.
The most liquid index S&P SL20 drops below 5%
If the index plunges below 7.5% the market trade will be halted.
@BandulaDr says the @RW_UNP is broadening the lunch project for school children and 51 percent in the student community there will be food security. The president has increased the budget of the project by 4 billion rupees.
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says, for a month #SriLanka spends 93 billion rupees on state worker salaries each month, for pension we spend 119 billion rupees a month and for the entire year it comes to 1428 billion rupees.
"There are no medicines in the Ayurvedic Hospital only problems. Most of the time they give the best closest medicine to the person due to lack of medicine in the hospital." - Protestors from Ayurveda Junction
".@IMFNews says the number of state workers is high. Chairman of IMF thinks these people get paid in dollars? If we take in the entire Asian region we are getting a very poor salary." - Protestor
"There is not enough staff, there should be 700 but only around 200 are there. We should have 100 nurses but only around 40 are there. No new recruitments have been made for the past 10 years." - Protestor
#SriLanka’s central bank said it was holding its policy rates at 15.50 percent, while data showed market interest rates are close to twice the rate while private credit and imports falling as a consequence. @CBSL#SLNews#LKA