{"id":72,"date":"2026-10-02T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/sri-lanka-rupee-closes-at-330-55-65-to-us-dollar-spot-bond-yields-steady\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:30:04","slug":"sri-lanka-rupee-closes-at-330-55-65-to-us-dollar-spot-bond-yields-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/sri-lanka-rupee-closes-at-330-55-65-to-us-dollar-spot-bond-yields-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka rupee closes at 330.55\/65 to US dollar spot, bond yields steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s rupee closed at 330.55\/65 to the US dollar in the spot market on Friday, from 330.60\/70 the previous day, while bond yields closed broadly steady, dealers said.<\/p>\n<p>A bond maturing on 01.08.2030 closed at 11.15\/20 percent, up from 11.10\/18 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A bond maturing on 15.10.2030 closed flat at 11.20\/25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A bond maturing on 01.02.2031 closed at 11.25\/30 percent, up from 11.22\/27 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A bond maturing on 15.12.2032 closed at 11.67\/75 percent, up from 11.65\/75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A bond maturing on 15.10.2034 closed at 11.99\/12.05 percent, up from 11.95\/12.00 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of September, the rupee had depreciated by 6.3 percent against the US dollar on a year-to-date basis, the central bank said. (Colombo\/Oct2\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s rupee closed at 330.55\/65 to the US dollar in the spot market on Friday, from 330.60\/70 the previous day, while bond yields closed broadly steady, dealers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}