{"id":62691,"date":"2017-01-25T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62691"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:02:21","slug":"bloomberg-rates-sri-lanka-in-high-risk-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/25\/bloomberg-rates-sri-lanka-in-high-risk-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg rates Sri Lanka in High Risk Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"post-submitted-info\">\n<div class=\"submitted-date\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-date-publishing field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<h2 class=\"field-item even\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Tuesday, January 24, 2017 &#8211; 01:00<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Sri Lanka has being ranked in the high risk (red) zone for investors in the Country Risk Score Index by Bloomberg, a privately held financial software, data, and media company headquartered in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has been placed in the 69th slot out of 82 selected countries.<\/p>\n<p>Norway, Switzerland, Sweden Hong Kong and Germany has being placed in the top five investment destinations while El Salvador, Nigeria, Honduras, Tanzania and Venezuela have being placed among the worst destinations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/risksl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/risksl.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/risksl-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/risksl-768x378.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of 100 points Sri Lanka has only 12 points while countries like Pakistan (12.5)India, (34.6) Greece, (41.0) China(64.2) are ranked above Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomberg Country Risk Score is a composite of 29 indicators representing financial, economic and political risks facing investors. Risk scores are calculated on a monthly basis and range from 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating less overall risk relative to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Total foreign reserves (excluding gold) held by each country\u2019s central bank as a percentage of gross domestic product, Unemployment, Inflation and overall expectation of a currency\u2019s future volatility also have being taken in to account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily News Tuesday, January 24, 2017 &#8211; 01:00 Sri Lanka has being ranked in the high risk (red) zone for investors in the Country Risk Score Index by Bloomberg, a privately held financial software, data, and media company headquartered in New York City. Sri Lanka has been placed in the 69th slot out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62691","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=62691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}