{"id":82235,"date":"2018-10-22T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82235"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:10:09","slug":"sri-lankan-rupee-at-record-low-stocks-up-from-near-5-yr-closing-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/22\/sri-lankan-rupee-at-record-low-stocks-up-from-near-5-yr-closing-trough\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan rupee at record low; stocks up from near 5-yr closing trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; ** The Sri Lankan rupee hit a record low on Monday as banks and importers purchased the U.S. dollar, while stocks edge up from their nearly five-year closing low hit in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>** The rupee dropped 0.4 percent to an all-time low of 172.50 per dollar, surpassing its previous low of 171.80 hit on Friday, mainly due to importer demand for the greenback, market sources said.<\/p>\n<p>** The rupee ended at 172.40\/60 per dollar, compared with its previous close of 171.60\/80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; ** The Sri Lankan rupee hit a record low on Monday as banks and importers purchased the U.S. dollar, while stocks edge up from their nearly five-year closing low hit in the previous session. ** The rupee dropped 0.4 percent to an all-time low of 172.50 per dollar, surpassing its [&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-82235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82235","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=82235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}