Colombo abruptly pulled out of an agreement last month with Delhi and Tokyo to jointly develop the partially built East Container Terminal located next to a $500-million Chinese-run container jetty within the capital’s sprawling port.
Unprecedented recent volatility, with shares in the GameStop video game store surging more than 400 percent, prompted calls for regulators to review the role of social media, hedge funds and trading platforms which some allege manipulated the market.