Sri Lanka Keeps Rate Steady as Focus Shifts to Debt Payment

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged for an eighth straight meeting, turning the attention to Governor Weligamage Don Lakshman’s press conference for his comments on the nation’s debt repayment.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka left the standing lending facility rate at 5.5% on Thursday, as predicted by all six economists in a Bloomberg survey.

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