Sri Lanka’s share market was upbeat on Friday with turnover soaring to close to Rs 2.7 billion turnover just as common opposition candidate, Maithripala Sirisena was declared the winner at Thursday’s presidential poll.
Sirisena beat incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, securing 51 per cent of the vote.
Both indices gained in the morning maintaining the momentum since the beginning of the week, with the ASPI moving 1.16 per cent up to record 7,585.59 at 11.30 am while the S&P SL20 index gained 2.47 per cent to post 4,289.49.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
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