{"id":17976,"date":"2026-09-30T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:42:30","slug":"cbsl-maintains-overnight-policy-rate-at-8-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=17976","title":{"rendered":"CBSL maintains overnight policy rate at 8.75%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate at 8.75%, citing evolving domestic and global economic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Monetary Policy Board noted that domestic economic activity remained resilient, with the economy recording 4.7% year-on-year growth in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Headline inflation rose to 8% in August 2026, while the CBSL expects inflation to remain in the high single digits through the first quarter of 2027 before gradually easing towards the 5% target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gross official reserves increased to US$6.9 billion at the end of August, while the Central Bank stated that it will continue to adopt a forward-looking and data-dependent approach to monetary policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : The Morning News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate at 8.75%, citing evolving domestic and global economic conditions. The Monetary Policy Board noted that domestic economic activity remained resilient, with the economy recording 4.7% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17978,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions\/17978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}