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BSEC, IMF discuss green bond market development
22 July 2026, 18:25 PM
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Chittagong Chamber urges stronger security at Ctg port
22 July 2026, 17:25 PM
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Oil extends gains on fresh Mideast supply risks
22 July 2026, 11:22 AM
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Bangladesh to take part in 50 international trade fairs in FY27
21 July 2026, 19:20 PM
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Trump orders new 50% tariff on many Canadian goods
21 July 2026, 13:28 PM
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Trump’s tariffs could shave 0.5% off India GDP
US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on India could reduce the country’s gross domestic product by half a percent this year, the nation’s Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday.
8 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Govt allows 1,200 tonnes of hilsa export to India
The government has issued a notification allowing the export of hilsa to India ahead of this year’s Durga Puja.
8 September 2025, 11:14 AM
Reserves fall to $25.3b after ACU payment
Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $25.30 billion yesterday, according to the International Monetary Fund’s calculation, after the country cleared $1.50 billion in import bills under the Asian Clearing Union (ACU).
7 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Govt to form expert panel for trade talks
Bangladesh will form an expert panel for negotiations as the country seeks to sign deals with major trading partners ahead of its graduation to a developing nation from the least developed country (LDC) category.
7 September 2025, 18:00 PM
US jobs data boosts rate cut hopes but stocks slide
Wall Street indices slide on economic worries despite rate cut expectations
7 September 2025, 06:24 AM
88 postal operators suspend services to US over tariffs: UN
New US tariffs cause 81% plunge in global postal traffic
7 September 2025, 06:20 AM
Tesla board recommends record $1 trillion package for Musk
The proposed plan requires boosting Tesla's valuation nearly eightfold
6 September 2025, 04:46 AM
China’s carmakers are heading for a crash
China’s automotive industry must seem like an unstoppable force to outsiders. Local champions like BYD and Geely have supplanted the international brands that first made the country the world’s largest car market in 2009. They sport the most advanced battery technology. And the People’s Republic is now the largest vehicle exporter, prompting the US and the European Union to impose tariffs. Despite these advantages, scores of their carmakers are heading for a crash.
4 September 2025, 18:00 PM
US limits TSMC chipmaking tool shipments to China
President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC’s authorization to export US chipmaking equipment to China without a license, further restricting access to US technology in the country.
3 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump to ask Supreme Court for ‘expedited ruling’
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to seek a swift ruling from the Supreme Court as his administration pushes to overturn a court decision that found many of his tariffs illegal.
3 September 2025, 18:00 PM
China backseat driving risks sending AI off course
China’s economy is a study in contradictions. Decades of centralised industrial planning in China have led to endemic overcapacity, which in turn has fuelled destructive price wars across an array of sectors. Yet Beijing’s approach, for all its flaws, also helped create world-class corporate champions like electric-car maker BYD. Officials now want to curb what they call “disorderly competition” in the booming $140 billion artificial intelligence sector. There is some logic to intervening, but that will come at a cost.
3 September 2025, 18:00 PM
US holiday spending set for steepest drop since pandemic, PwC survey shows
Shoppers on average plan to spend about $1,552 per person, down 5.3 percent from last year
3 September 2025, 08:08 AM
Saudi Arabia targets 150m visitors by 2030 with Ronaldo campaign
The kingdom has committed $800 billion to tourism under Vision 2030, aiming to boost GDP, jobs and infrastructure.
3 September 2025, 07:43 AM
India in talks with US for trade agreement, says Indian trade minister
India's trade minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday
2 September 2025, 07:44 AM
Gold price hits record above $3,500
The precious metal reached $3,501.59 an ounce during early trading in Asia
2 September 2025, 06:41 AM
ECB's Lagarde warns of risk to world economy via Trump interference on Fed
Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed's chair, Jerome Powell, for not cutting the short-term interest rate
1 September 2025, 07:45 AM
China manufacturing shrinks for 5th month
China’s factory output ticked up in August but still recorded a fifth straight month of contraction, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing and Washington press on with trade talks.
31 August 2025, 18:00 PM
India boosts oil purchases from US to narrow trade deficit
Indian refiners boosted US crude oil purchases this month, drawn by competitive prices, trade sources said, a move that could help narrow the country’s trade deficit with the United States amid tensions between the two nations.
31 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump demand for Japan to buy more US rice snagged trade talks, Nikkei says
One official criticised the proposal as an "interference in domestic affairs," the business daily said
31 August 2025, 07:12 AM
US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal
A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.
30 August 2025, 18:00 PM