COLOMBO, April 4 — Trading was halted on Sri Lanka’s stock exchange seconds after it opened today when the blue chip index dropped 5.92 per cent following a mass cabinet resignation in the face of an economic crisis.
The S&P index fell more than the five per cent needed to trigger a circuit breaker that halts trading for half an hour, the Colombo Stock Exchange said. — AFP
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