{"id":73224,"date":"2017-12-29T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73224"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:48:47","slug":"sri-lankan-rupee-falls-down-2-5-pct-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/29\/sri-lankan-rupee-falls-down-2-5-pct-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan rupee falls; down 2.5 pct in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; The Sri Lankan rupee closed lower on Friday, ending the year 2.5 percent weaker, as demand for dollars from importers and banks outweighed inward remittances and conversion of the U.S. currency by exporters, dealers said.<\/p>\n<p>The spot rupee closed at 153.60\/65 per dollar, compared with Thursday\u2019s 153.50\/70. The currency\u2019s fall this year comes after a 3.9 percent decline in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of what-ifs next year,\u201d said a currency dealer.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign investors\u2019 movement after the US Fed rate hike, the global economic condition and how the oil prices behave will be the main concerns for the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the rupee has lost ground this year, currency dealers say dollar demand has waned slightly, lending support to the domestic currency. ($1 = 152.3500 Sri Lankan rupees)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; The Sri Lankan rupee closed lower on Friday, ending the year 2.5 percent weaker, as demand for dollars from importers and banks outweighed inward remittances and conversion of the U.S. currency by exporters, dealers said. The spot rupee closed at 153.60\/65 per dollar, compared with Thursday\u2019s 153.50\/70. The currency\u2019s fall [&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-73224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224","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=73224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}