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# Sri Lankan stock investors get poor returns
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/sri-lankan-stock-investors-get-poor-returns/
- Published: 2025-10-17T06:07:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T07:11:46.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: chart, maintag-Chart, Week-06-2025

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Data from investing.com, **Examiner* [calculations](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LAxA3dW0G0usG4JIh9Rpvf6IFeKH6ERsWNm9maxetUA/edit?gid=1563531948&ref=examiner.media#gid=1563531948). 

$100 invested in the US stock market in 1995 increased to $1250 by 2025\. By contrast, a hundred dollars invested in the Colombo Stock Exchange only increased to $250\. As a result Sri Lankan savers investing in the stock market saw their wealth grow less fast.