{
  "id": 14195797,
  "title": "Sri Lankan shares dip as communications, financial stocks weigh",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/sri-lankan-shares-dip-as-communications-financial-stocks-weigh",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-13T11:57:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40444007/sri-lankan-shares-dip-as-communications-financial-stocks-weigh"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Sri Lankan shares closed lower on Tuesday, dragged down by communications and financial stocks. The CSE All-Share index settled 0.9% lower at 20,077.48 points. Dialog Axiata and Commercial Bank of Ceylon were the biggest drag on the index, down 1.8% and 0.63%, respectively. Trading volume on the index rose to 78.9 million shares from 46.6 million shares in the previous session. The equity…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}