Constitutional Crisis – close to $ 100mn flees stock/bond markets last week

November 4, 2018 (LBO) - In the first full week of Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis, foreign investors in Sri Lanka's capital markets ran for the exits with nearly US0mn leaving the stock/bond markets during the past week.









For the year 2018, the total net foreign outflow from Sri Lanka's stock and bond markets totals Rs117bn.

This is close to US$660mn at todays exchange rates, however, the actual dollar outflow its higher with figures distorted due to the recent drop in the Sri Lanka rupee which sits near an all time low of Rs175/dollar. Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis has come at a terrible time for the Sri Lankan markets, with outflows globally from emerging markets and Sri Lanka sovereign bond maturities coming up.

WATCH: Main impact of #SriLanka political crisis is on the budget, IMF program, plus heading into next year there's a lot of debt needs to be rolled over; 'this is extremely bad timing for Sri Lanka,' says Kenneth Akintewe @ASInvestmentsUK #$LKR #EmergingMarkets #lka pic.twitter.com/JS8ucHynHA

— Sri Jegarajah (@cnbcSri) October 29, 2018

#SriLanka is still bleeding on foreign capital out-flow ..net outflow from Gov. bonds LKR 10.9 Bn and from stock LKR 3.8Bn during this week. But stock index gained significantly during the week, while LKR was also slightly appreciated towards end of week. pic.twitter.com/v9pRzk0acx

— Sanjeewa Dayarathne (@DayarathneSa) November 2, 2018