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	Table  53 (Capital, Share)
	Foreign Trading of Shares by Business Sector (Sales)
	Cap53e
Indicator & Quarter		Banks , Finance & Insurance	Beverages, Food & Tobacco	Construction & Engineering	Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals	Diversified	Footwear & Textiles	Hotel  & Travels	Investment Trust	Land & Property	Manufacturing	Motors	Oil Palm	Plantations	Stores & Suppliers	Services	Trading
Sales - No of Shares
1995  1st Quarter		6,157	10,584	808	1,285	5,713	89	1,098	15	727	6,905	336	-	-	-	65	22
2nd Quarter		5,151	10,985	705	231	7,862	4,391	3,075	72	568	7,049	77	-	-	-	100	23
3rd Quarter		3,802	3,227	894	252	4,798	70	2,115	-	138	4,064	726	-	-	42	109	805
4th Quarter		4,683	6,740	593	2	26,753	10	1,877	10	3,480	3,845	1	-	-	75	3	11
1996  1st Quarter		4,859	7,189	426	3	6,459	112	2,115	1	174	7,104	410	-	-	-	1	4
2nd Quarter		2,805	3,336	1,060	3	3,831	281	815	19	6	3,737	116	-	-	-	-	954
3rd Quarter		4,000	804	3,311	30	2,066	49	1,505	41	1	2,834	365	-	25	-	-	736
4th Quarter		9,253	8,337	1,011	-	5,777	182	1,833	5	77	16,202	648	-	-	184	1	67
1997  1st Quarter		5,012	9,789	650	469	4,389	89	2,853	-	25	3,494	5	-	9	-	3	71
2nd Quarter		7,049	7,911	2,645	34	7,585	161	16,878	2	159	6,777	1,134	-	104	113	41	32
3rd Quarter		557	175	340	17	398	-	2,916	-	157	1,289	0	-	1	-	-	6
4th Quarter		10,816	6,489	988	339	14,890	92	4,140	23	27	4,093	1,112	-	1,460	150	-	696
1998  1st Quarter		19,915	3,667	3,694	6	1,771	53	18,348	272	155	9,902	895	-	554	20	1	8
2nd Quarter		22,997	6,264	1,782	254	4,694	459	28,244	64	275	7,776	1,051	-	5,637	134	-	509
3rd Quarter		10,836	21,634	1,009	11	2,918	1,521	22,768	16	859	7,505	263	-	1,205	18	6	7
Sales - Amount -      (Rs 1,000)
1995  1st Quarter		506,520	90,161	14,783	127,896	399,059	1,292	41,851	3,695	12,497	280,616	10,959	-	-	-	2,304	286
2nd Quarter		453,196	104,335	10,900	13,771	548,270	83,508	45,101	1,810	3,461	305,845	2,101	-	-	-	3,010	1,007
3rd Quarter		614,376	30,151	14,255	15,054	339,014	1,451	39,555	5	1,826	122,907	25,588	-	-	4,487	3,128	38,038
4th Quarter		566,956	49,228	6,613	61	362,133	94	29,325	224	22,928	114,125	23	-	-	8,250	90	724
1996  1st Quarter		702,319	48,839	4,882	252	311,279	2,305	24,639	44	944	225,248	12,477	-	3	20	30	108
2nd Quarter		289,440	22,929	10,254	257	191,312	2,537	15,174	190	58	104,440	4,595	-	-	5	3	35,755
3rd Quarter		221,460	6,774	32,638	37	206,225	390	13,977	345	9	55,539	12,368	-	505	37	-	18,149
4th Quarter		483,493	112,641	13,943	-	399,291	1,816	18,425	39	968	192,736	22,100	-	-	15,763	40	1,893
1997  1st Quarter		339,027	19,812	9,492	29,536	160,280	528	37,700	-	172	96,794	68	-	224	16	116	2,187
2nd Quarter		485,527	290,062	52,748	1,158	551,268	2,470	242,041	30	1,316	165,060	47,814	-	3,640	5,271	128	670
3rd Quarter		67,483	11,320	8,573	1,081	24,843	-	37,874	-	864	40,398	16	-	30	-	22	192
4th Quarter		1,183,051	190,567	40,875	14,191	766,116	833	36,355	413	441	104,637	49,742	-	46,418	9,274	9	26,822
1998  1st Quarter		752,042	139,446	54,577	309	450,833	764	146,903	1,637	1,428	199,710	34,727	-	22,750	1,005	94	349
2nd Quarter		711,474	194,122	31,555	6,843	963,338	1,190	169,688	5,650	1,241	211,576	37,887	-	237,768	7,216	-	14,789
3rd Quarter		498,303	156,581	15,095	296	472,062	3,043	138,881	368	6,850	162,559	10,396	-	30,498	1,304	191	250
© ２００３， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)
Source:
Economic & Social Statistics of Sri Lanka 2000, Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Revised:  2003(y)/03(m)/01(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Head, Department of Management Studies
University of Peradeniya.