{
  "id": 18117059,
  "title": "Financial stocks lift Sri Lankan shares higher",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/financial-stocks-lift-sri-lankan-shares-higher",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-04T11:29:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40447393/financial-stocks-lift-sri-lankan-shares-higher"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Wednesday, led by financial stocks. The CSE All-Share index settled 2.09% higher at 20,541.12 points Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, Dialog Axiata PLC and Hatton National Bank PLC were among the biggest boosts to the index, up 1.8%, 2.5% and 1.9%, respectively. Trading volume on the index rose to 119.5 million shares from 61.9 million shares in the previous…",
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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."
}