Dollar Rate Today: Sri Lankan Rupee depreciates against USD

EconomyNext reports two different Friday, October 23, 2026 spot-market quotations for the Sri Lankan rupee against the US dollar. One update gives a closing rate of 332.10/20, stronger than Thursday’s 332.20/35; another says the rupee was weaker at 332.35/42 compared with that Thursday rate. EconomyNext attributes the market figures to dealers.

Newswire reports that the rupee depreciated against the US dollar on Friday, October 23, both in a central-bank-rates update and in a report about rates across commercial banks, but the supplied text includes no actual rates. For context, EconomyNext’s Thursday report says the rupee closed at 332.20/35, weaker than Wednesday’s 331.90/332.05.

EconomyNext’s Friday reports also differ on bond trading. One says yields closed lower: the 2029 bond was at 11.05/10 percent, the 2030 bond at 11.45/55 percent, the February 2031 bond at 11.70/75 percent, the December 2031 bond at 11.80/90 percent, the January 2033 bond at 11.90/12.05 percent and the 2034 bond at 12.35/45 percent. The other update describes yields as steady overall, with quoted yields lower on some maturities, flat on others and higher for the 2034 bond.

In the latter Friday update, EconomyNext reports dollar telegraphic-transfer rates of 327.75 buying and 336.75 selling, and euro and pound buying and selling rates of 364.8954/378.6762 and 437.9916/452.1000, respectively. It also says the Colombo Stock Exchange’s All Share Price Index rose 0.34 percent to 19,785 and the S&P SL20 gained 0.39 percent to 5,640.

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