Still market is dull

What makes this?

swan03 wrote:What makes this?

Sinhala & tamil new year.

UKboy wrote:

swan03 wrote:What makes this?

Sinhala & tamil new year.

Then this is normal?

Is force selling/credit clearing still in progress or some other factors playing a role?

Any comments?

It will be laklustre this whole month maybe slight pick up after the holidays and then May should be back to normal.....like I said previously this is due to us Lankans having too many Holiydays

$$$ wrote:It will be laklustre this whole month maybe slight pick up after the holidays and then May should be back to normal.....like I said previously this is due to us Lankans having too many Holiydays

that's a misconception people who haven't really seen the holidays people in the developed countries get. foreigners have more holidays that we do. they get weeks and months as vacation while our vacation is merely days.

but the funny thing is companies and institutions are still working. so whose really running the CSE? school students?

Well I agree but it's holidays given on a staggered basis so the productivuty doesn't go down ...Here most of the time when we are on holiday the whole country is on holiday thats the different in foreign countries even if one person or persond go on holiday the show goes on

$$$ wrote:Well I agree but it's holidays given on a staggered basis so the productivuty doesn't go down ...Here most of the time when we are on holiday the whole country is on holiday thats the different in foreign countries even if one person or persond go on holiday the show goes on

no really, for companies i worked for our parent companies were in europe. in the summer time we can't find anybody in the parent offices. everybody is climbing mountains or have gone to sea. once we were given a holiday because the head office network was inaccessible and all the system personnel were on vacation. same in xmas time.

duke wrote:

$$$ wrote:It will be laklustre this whole month maybe slight pick up after the holidays and then May should be back to normal.....like I said previously this is due to us Lankans having too many Holiydays

that's a misconception people who haven't really seen the holidays people in the developed countries get. foreigners have more holidays that we do. they get weeks and months as vacation while our vacation is merely days.

but the funny thing is companies and institutions are still working. so whose really running the CSE? school students?

well i dont fully agree with that

UK 2011 public holiday list;


New Year's Day Holiday -January 3
Good Friday -April 22
Easter Monday - April 25
Royal Wedding Bank Holiday - April 29
Early May Bank Holiday - May 2
Spring Bank Holiday - May 30
Summer Bank Holiday - August 29
Boxing Day - December 26
Christmas Day Holiday - December 27

SL 2011 public holiday list;

15 January -Tamil Thai Pongal Day *†#
January Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (6) *†#
31 january - nagarubans birthday
4 February - National Day *†#
February 16 - Navam Full Moon Poya Day *†#
6 March - Maha Sivarathri Day *†
20 March -Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet’s Birthday) *†
March -Medin Full Moon Poya Day *†#
21 March - Good Friday *†
12 April - Day prior to Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day *†#
13 April -Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day *†#
18 April - Additional Bank Holiday †
April -Bak Full Moon Poya Day *†#
1 May - May Day *†#
May - Wesak Full Moon Poya Day *†#
May - Day following Wesak Full Moon Poya Day *†#
June - Poson Full Moon Poya Day *†#
July - Esala Full Moon Poya Day *†#
August - Nikini Full Moon Poya Day *†#
September - Binara Full Moon Poya Day *†#
1 October - Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramazan Festival Day) *†
October - Vap Full Moon Poya Day *†#
27 October - Deepavali Festival Day *†
November - Il Full Moon Poya Day *†#
9 December - Id-Ul-Adha (Hajj Festival Day) *†
20 December - Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day *†#
24 December - Christmas Eve *†#
25 December Saturday Christmas Day


UK in total for the whole year 9 public holidays. SL 28 holidays in total. Very generous....

Exactly summer most people take their anual leave or In December ...Here we are on holiday 12 months a year so even if you take the number prouductive days lost taking your example it will be during summer and december ...Here we have various holidays (I love them ....but if we are to be competitive and move forward in a short time we will have to work harder... For eg Budhist Holidays every one else is on leave Christian, Hindu and Muslim every one else is on leave why cant we have only the people celebrating that particular holiday on leave .....this is why in devolped countries it works differently ....when one applies for leave some one else has to cover.....

Just imagine the cost of employing a employee on a public holiday.
Normally in UK, even supermarkets pay 3 times the normal pay and a extra day off if someone is willing to work on that day. But in SL ppl are enjoying the summer holidays 365 days. atleast 2 holidays per month....

swan03 wrote:

UKboy wrote:

swan03 wrote:What makes this?

Sinhala & tamil new year.

Then this is normal?

Yes this is normal.. But just before the new year you may see that market will be green.

chamith wrote:. But in SL ppl are enjoying the summer holidays 365 days. atleast 2 holidays per month....

True Chamith. + rep from me.
UK gets only 8-9 public holidays luckily we get one addtional day off this year for the Royal wedding ( Prince Williams wedding).

In SIRI LANKA..people have at least 25 days as public holidays. But some people still think this is not enough..!!!!

Most of the countries in the world do not have more than 15 public holidays per year.

$$$ wrote:Exactly summer most people take their anual leave or In December ...Here we are on holiday 12 months a year so even if you take the number prouductive days lost taking your example it will be during summer and december ...Here we have various holidays (I love them ....but if we are to be competitive and move forward in a short time we will have to work harder... For eg Budhist Holidays every one else is on leave Christian, Hindu and Muslim every one else is on leave why cant we have only the people celebrating that particular holiday on leave .....this is why in devolped countries it works differently ....when one applies for leave some one else has to cover.....

When I was working I worked according to this. I got my leave only on Buddhist holidays. Otherwise I worked even on Sundays and Some times I had to work on Poya days. Some people never cared about others.

This is why still we cant come out from the this tag "3 world country".

I guess nobody wants to except the bitter truth. First it was credit clearance, everyone said market will have bull run from April. guess what it was only up oneday (other days, thanks to illiquid shares going up). Now everyone wants to beleive it's because of Holiday season and market will be up from MAY. Guess what it's the other 50% credit clearance could be the reason for market down for May and June.

The way I see is that most of the counters are still below January prices and continueing to go down. The market was green because of illiquid shares going up. Foreign selling increased, I really dont understand. Doesn't look good.

If you are new to the market, dont burn your fingers, use wait and see approach.

I really pray that things would be back to normal.

Light of Hope wrote:I guess nobody wants to except the bitter truth. First it was credit clearance, everyone said market will have bull run from April. guess what it was only up oneday (other days, thanks to illiquid shares going up). Now everyone wants to beleive it's because of Holiday season and market will be up from MAY. Guess what it's the other 50% credit clearance could be the reason for market down for May and June.

The way I see is that most of the counters are still below January prices and continueing to go down. The market was green because of illiquid shares going up. Foreign selling increased, I really dont understand. Doesn't look good.

If you are new to the market, dont burn your fingers, use wait and see approach.

I really pray that things would be back to normal.

Agree... All are saying this is the reason and that will be the reason. But nothing happened after end of march. Market still red except few stocks...

banarahu wrote:

Light of Hope wrote:I guess nobody wants to except the bitter truth. First it was credit clearance, everyone said market will have bull run from April. guess what it was only up oneday (other days, thanks to illiquid shares going up). Now everyone wants to beleive it's because of Holiday season and market will be up from MAY. Guess what it's the other 50% credit clearance could be the reason for market down for May and June.

The way I see is that most of the counters are still below January prices and continueing to go down. The market was green because of illiquid shares going up. Foreign selling increased, I really dont understand. Doesn't look good.

If you are new to the market, dont burn your fingers, use wait and see approach.

I really pray that things would be back to normal.

Agree... All are saying this is the reason and that will be the reason. But nothing happened after end of march. Market still red except few stocks...

wait for your chance.......just only 4 working days gone........try to accumulate counters which are still in oversold.............

UKboy wrote:

chamith wrote:. But in SL ppl are enjoying the summer holidays 365 days. atleast 2 holidays per month....

True Chamith. + rep from me.
UK gets only 8-9 public holidays luckily we get one addtional day off this year for the Royal wedding ( Prince Williams wedding).

In SIRI LANKA..people have at least 25 days as public holidays. But some people still think this is not enough..!!!!

Most of the countries in the world do not have more than 15 public holidays per year.

In Sweden you get 5 weeks of annual leave, 16 weeks of parental leave even for a father. That is extra after public holidays. Also for each year worked you get a week or so extra.

7360 is a good support for ASI. There was a rebound from that level today. If ASI breaks 7360, I expect ASI to go down till it hits 7320-7330 range before we see a turn around.

Yes, with enough buying pressure market will pickup...........

yeah!