While foreign investors continued with their selling of shares , Colombo stocks fell 0.68 percent on Tuesday due to negative investor sentiment amidst political uncertainity ahead of April General Elections, profit taking of investors, and intense selling of Touchwood shares, analysts said.
Asian Paints Lanka, the owner of a multi-brand portfolio of standard and specialized paints, has announced that its products in Sri Lanka are now covered by a Lead-free guarantee, following a global Green initiative begun by the India-headquartered coatings giant.
Following the Govt.’s declaration that it had overshot its deficit target in its budget 2009 , and still worse , it will miss this year too , has caused a plummeting of the share market which fell 1.22 % to a more than one week low on the 3rd of March owing to a negative investor confidence.
“From this programme I was able to understand the gap between local graduates and the industry. I was also able to get a good idea about what the private sector needs and what [kind of] person they look for,” said T.H.K. Nawarathna, a Final Year student of the University of Moratuwa and participant at “The Final Step” – Soft Skills Workshops - a five-day series of soft skills workshops, conducted by John Keells Social Responsibility Foundation in collaboration with the Career Guidance Unit (CGU) of the University from 8-12 February, 2010 at the University of Moratuwa.
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