Sri Lanka top five SOEs lose Rs931bn amid monetary instability

Sri Lanka’s top five state enterprises have lost 931 billion rupees in the first four months of 2022, official data shows, with a collapse of a soft-peg due to aggressive open market operations of the central bank contributing to most losses.

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2022-07-08

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