All the nations around the world are interrelated and interdependent through economic, cultural, social, and, technological means. The foreign exchange market and the stock market are the driving forces of global interdependency. Thus, the study aims to analyze the nature of the relationship between foreign exchange rates and the stock market performance in the Sri Lankan context. The study adopted a quantitative research approach where publicly available secondary data from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Colombo Stock Exchange were used for the analysis. All Share Price index was used as the dependent variable and the monthly average exchange rates; USD/LKR, GBP/LKR, EUR/LKR, JPY/LKR, and INR/LKR were used as the independent variables. The study gathered data for 19 years from Jan'2000 -Jan'2019, where the data set was tested for unit root, and given the non-stationary nature of data; the Johansen co-integration rank test was applied. The study findings depict a non-significant relationship between the exchange rates and the stock market performance in the Sri Lankan context emphasizing the absence of a long-term relationship. This is of paramount importance for both local and foreign investors given the decisions on foreign exchange risk hedging and the portfolio performance depend on this relationship. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the early studies in Sri Lanka to identify the association between exchange rates and stock returns over a period of 19 years.