{"id":156315,"date":"2026-05-21T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=156315"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:40:13","slug":"sri-lankan-rupee-nosedives-depreciates-by-over-3-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/05\/21\/sri-lankan-rupee-nosedives-depreciates-by-over-3-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan rupee nosedives&#8230; Depreciates by over 3% in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The selling price of a US dollar reached Rs. 354.03 today (21), according to the daily exchange rates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buying price of the dollar stood at Rs. 342.63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday the selling rate was recorded as 342.70 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News The selling price of a US dollar reached Rs. 354.03 today (21), according to the daily exchange rates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The buying price of the dollar stood at Rs. 342.63. Yesterday the selling rate was recorded as 342.70 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156316,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156315\/revisions\/156316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}