{"id":17650,"date":"2024-11-18T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:23:54","slug":"sri-lankan-shares-rise-as-president-reappoints-prime-minister-keeps-finance-minister-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17650","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan shares rise as president reappoints prime minister, keeps finance minister role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>Sri Lankan shares closed higher for a seventh straight session on Monday after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CSE All-Share index settled 0.24% higher at 13,231.01. It gained 3.1% last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake\u2019s leftist coalition won a record 159 parliamentary seats in elections last week as the island nation targets stronger recovery from a draining financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>On the CSE All-Share index, Nation Lanka Finance and Industrial Asphalts were the top percent gainers, rising 50% and 33.33%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40332485\">Sri Lankan shares end higher as IT, consumer discretionary stocks gain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trading volume on the index rose to 223.5 million shares from 156.7 million shares in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>The equity market\u2019s turnover grew to 5.55 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($19.1 million) from 3.79 billion rupees in the previous session, according to exchange data.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign investors were net sellers, offloading stocks worth 992.2 million rupees, while domestic investors were net buyers, purchasing shares worth 5.32 billion rupees, the data showed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.einnews.com\/article\/761578765\/suqRHuzfkQiMQnuL?ref=rss&amp;ecode=kmfm9fDbRbj4OPCJ\">politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan shares closed higher for a seventh straight session on Monday after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister. The CSE All-Share index settled 0.24% higher at 13,231.01. It gained 3.1% last week. Dissanayake\u2019s leftist coalition won a record 159 parliamentary seats in elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}