Friday Nov 07, 2025
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By Wealth Trust Securities
The USD/LKR rate spot contacts in the forex market, traded above Rs. 303.00 for the second consecutive day as it traded within the range of Rs. 302.98 to Rs. 303.05 yesterday before closing the day at Rs. 303.00/10 against its previous day’s closing level of Rs. 302.95/00.
The total USD/LKR traded volume for 15 October was $ 100.85 million.
Meanwhile, the yields in the secondary Bond market remained mostly unchanged yesterday as activity moderated. Limited trades were seen on the maturities of 2027’s (i.e. 01.05.27 and 15.09.27), 2029’s (i.e. 15.09.29 and 15.12.29) and 15.05.30 at levels of 8.70% to 8.83%, 9.68% to 9.71% and 9.80% respectively.
In secondary Bills market, the December 2025, January 2026 and August 2026 were seen changing hands at levels of 7.70%, 7.75% and 8.00% respectively.
The total secondary market Treasury Bond/Bill transacted volume for 15 October was Rs. 9.27 billion.
In money markets, the overnight net liquidity surplus was registered at Rs. 140.38 billion yesterday as an amount of Rs. 177.40 billion was deposited at Central Bank’s SDFR (Standard Deposit Facility Rate) of 7.25% against an amount of Rs. 37.02 billion withdrawn from Central Bank’s SLFR facility (Standard Lending Facility Rate) of 8.25%. The weighted average rates on overnight call money and REPO stood at 7.87% and 7.92% respectively.
(References: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Bloomberg E-Bond trading platform, Money broking companies)
