*BRS News Flash 30.05.2025* • The Colombo bourse ended in green as ASPI moved up by 102.73 points (+0.61%) to close at 16,815.60. The S&P SL20 index gained 44.65 points (+0.91%) to close at 4,963.27. Price gains in LOLC, CCS, JKH, HAYL, and CFIN drove the index higher. Turnover stood at LKR 6.4bn. 📈 💼 Source: https://research.bartleetreligare.com/reports/traders-daily-digest-29052025-1186 • The visiting China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with President Anura Kumara Disanayake and expressed growing interest in Sri Lanka by investors considering the current political and economic stability along with the clear policy direction in the country. 🤝 🇨🇳 💬 Source: https://www.ft.lk/front-page/Chinese-Commerce-Minister-informs-AKD-of-growing-investor-interest-on-Sri-Lanka/44-777067 • PickMe owner Digital Mobility Solutions Lanka PLC has announced an Employee Share Option Scheme (ESOP). The total number of shares underlying the options to be granted under this Scheme is 17,543,351 Ordinary Voting Shares. 🚖 🧑‍💼📃Source: https://www.ft.lk/business/PickMe-firm-floats-ESOP/34-777078 • Sri Lankan consumers are gradually shifting spending beyond essentials, supported by easing inflation and modest income gains, in a sign of recovering confidence following years of economic turmoil. 💸 📈 🛒 Source: https://www.dailymirror.lk/business-news/Sri-Lankans-turn-to-discretionary-spending-as-consumer-behaviour-shifts-after-years/273-310187 • David Pieris Group yesterday picked up 12.5 million Sampath Bank shares, which is about 1 percent of the issued shares of Sri Lanka’s third largest private bank in terms of assets, for about Rs.1.4 billion. 💼 🏦 🪙 Source: https://www.dailymirror.lk/business-news/David-Pieris-buys-Sampath-Bank-stake-from-Ayenka-for-Rs-1-4bn/273-310188 •Sri Lanka’s Ambeon Capital has said it is investing 600 million rupees in a mineral sand project in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka together with Capital Metals PLC, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. 🧱 🌐 💷 Source: https://economynext.com/ambeon-capital-invests-rs600mn-in-mineral-sand-project-in-sri-lankas-east-223286/ • Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Dissanayake had met Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe and Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana, a government statement said. 🗣️ 📉 🇱🇰 Source: https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-discusses-economy-with-cb-governor-treasury-secy-180878/ • Sri Lanka average coconut prices slid 2.1 percent on Wednesday after the weekly auction was postponed on May 22, an industry official said. 🥥 📉 🪙 Source: https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-coconut-prices-slide-2-pct-as-weekly-auction-resumes-223241/ *BRS Equity Research*