It paid LKR 0.25 per share as dividend for the financial year 2009.

The rupee currency's LKR= relative strengthening and the end of the elections should boost foreign demand, traders say.

The rupee currency LKR= and Colombo Stock Exchange .CSE both jumped on Monday after the military declared the fighting over.

In the past, that has meant high inflation and interest rates, weak rupee LKR= exchange rates and sluggish private sector growth.

Bond dealers say demand for high-yield government securities should rise, having grown more attractive with upward pressure on the rupee currency .LKR .