ECONOMYNEXT – The Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Thursday after the International Monetary Fund announced it had reached a staff level agreement with the Sri Lanka government on its fifth review. “Once the review is approved by the IMF Executive Board, Sri Lanka will have access to about US$347 million in financing,” the IMF said. The All Share Price Index closed up 0.51 percent, or 111.84 points, at 22,209.83; while the S&P SL20 closed up 0.13 percent, 7.96 points, at 6,171.18 provisional data on its site showed. Turnover was 13.3 billion rupees. Most of this came from banks (6.4…
Sri Lanka stocks close up after IMF staff level agreement news
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