{"id":81606,"date":"2018-10-02T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81606"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:59:22","slug":"all-of-economy-doesnt-collapse-when-rupee-depreciates-cbsl-governor-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/02\/all-of-economy-doesnt-collapse-when-rupee-depreciates-cbsl-governor-english\/","title":{"rendered":"All of economy doesn\u2019t collapse when Rupee depreciates &#8211; CBSL Governor ( English) US$ 184 million spent to defend Rupee &#8211; CBSL Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank intervened by US$ 184 million on a net basis so far this year to defend the depreciation of the Sri Lankan Rupee.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 under this government about US$ 3.2 billion was spent to defend the Rupee and the Rupee was depreciated by little under 10%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far we\u2019ve had a 9.5% depreciation but on a net basis so far we have only spent US$ 184 million,\u201d CBSL Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All of economy doesn\u2019t collapse when Rupee depreciates - CBSL Governor ( English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MT0lH7HVqMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank intervened by US$ 184 million on a net basis so far this year to defend the depreciation of the Sri Lankan Rupee. In 2015 under this government about US$ 3.2 billion was spent to defend the Rupee and the Rupee was depreciated by little under 10%.\u201d So far we\u2019ve had a 9.5% [&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-81606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81606","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=81606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}