Saturday, November 22, 2014

Muted response from the Stock Exchange to Presidential poll announcement

The bourse has reportedly greeted with muted response yesterday’s televised announcement of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, that he would be contesting for a 3rd term.
The benchmark ASPI gaining by a marginal 0.07% over its previous day Wednesday’s close to 7,530.33 points and the more sensitive S&P SL 20 Index by 0.06% to 4,191.45 points on a Rs 1.69 billion turnover, down by 7.65% over its previous day’s figure.

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