Since the floor price removal, the stocks have been bleeding owing to massive sell-offs by local and foreign investors as the economic uncertainty persists
China (together with Hong Kong) continues to be the largest origin economy for counterfeit and pirated goods, accounting for more than 85 percent of global seizures of counterfeit goods from 2017 to 2019.
The International Monetary Fund yesterday recommended reducing government subsidies by hiking prices of power, gas and fertiliser, and spending the saved money on society safety net programmes.
The DSEX, the benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), plunged 60 points, or 1 percent to 5,518.
Sumon Howlader, president of the Bangladesh Poultry Association (BPA), claimed that marginal farmers have suffered losses totalling around Tk 200 crore in the past 10 days due to the effects of the heatwave.
Islami Bank Bangladesh, the largest and oldest shariah-based bank in the country, today announced that it would borrow Tk 1,000 crore through the issuance of bonds to improve its capital adequacy in line with Basel-III.
Reckitt Benckiser (Bangladesh), whose brands include Dettol, Mortein and Harpic, witnessed a drop in revenue of around 3 percent year-on-year in the last January-March period, citing that it was due to a drop in sales.
Bata Shoe Company (Bangladesh) Ltd’s profit dropped 2 percent year-on-year to Tk 40.09 crore in 2023, yet it recommended its highest-ever cash dividend
Thousands of women from several villages in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila are now becoming self-reliant by making an earning through the production of traditional handicrafts from a variety of leaves.
So far, any loss of productivity or major casualty has been averted while no incident related to the thin presence of workers or missing shipment deadlines has been recorded.
A former colleague shared one of the most bizarre local news about an employee who hired a goon to severely beat up his boss for being the cause of excessive stress in the workplace.
In a rare move, the Bangladesh Bank has restricted the entry of journalists to its offices for the first time in its history, prompting a group of journalists to protest.
Islami Bank Bangladesh recorded a profit of Tk 635.33 crore in 2023, the highest since 2019
The income tax exemption period for the software and information technology services sector is set to expire in June of this year.
The Bay Terminal project’s two container terminals, a multipurpose terminal and an oil and gas terminal will all be implemented wholly with FDI, said the CPA chairman.
The BSEC issued an order recalibrating the circuit breaker, saying that stocks of listed companies would not be allowed to fall more than 3 percent based on the previous day's closing price.
The IMF mission suggested that the upcoming budget, which will be unveiled in the first week of June, should be smaller than the projection, citing a low revenue collection, according to a number of finance ministry officials who attended the meeting.
The rise in sales and profit continued Meta's rebound of 2023, which came thanks to drastic cost-cutting, including massive layoffs
The company gives credit to fall in administration, distribution costs and selling expenses
The Chinese market alone is crucial: it’s the world’s biggest with sales of 22 million vehicles last year, according to the China Passenger Car Association
Tesla reported a big drop in quarterly profits Tuesday amid an increasingly cutthroat electric vehicle market
ICMAB organises a pre-budget discussion
The company will produce annually 271 million pieces of zipper and accessories
The council will strengthen economic ties and cooperation
Accountholders of merged banks will be able to maintain their respective accounts as before
Probir Chandra Das, deputy managing director and CFO of National Life Insurance Company, and Moinul Hye Asif, executive vice-president and head of risk and compliance of MetLife, have recently been elected as chairman and general secretary respectively of the Insurance Companies CAMLCOs Association of Bangladesh (ICCAB) for a two-year term (2024-25).
The Embassy of Bangladesh in the US capital of Washington DC and Sonali Exchange Company Incorporation (SECI), a subsidiary of Sonali Bank, jointly organised a customer gathering and SECI app campaign at the embassy’s Bangabandhu auditorium.
Visa has appointed Sabbir Ahmed as the country manager for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan
Prime Bank recorded a profit of Tk 131.34 crore in the January-March quarter of the current financial year
Matin Spinning Mills’ profit jumped 790 percent year-on-year to Tk 9.55 crore in the January-March quarter.
Mohammad Iqbal Chowdhury, chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh, paid a courtesy call on Environment Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury at his office in Dhaka recently.
Standard Chartered Bangladesh (SCB) has arranged the first Indian rupee (INR) denominated trade transaction to facilitate the import of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd (UBL), the largest multinational company operating in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector.
The loss stood at Tk 4.32 crore in the identical January-March quarter in the previous year
The price of potatoes has begun an upward climb in the market
Based on the compilation of media reports on bank scams between 2008 and 2023, CPD said as much as 92 thousand crores of taka have been siphoned out of the banking sector in the last fifteen years
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Syndication has become a buzzword among consumers in Bangladesh, particularly in relation to the abnormal price hike of essential commodities over the past several years.
Bolstered by rising value-added tax (VAT) collection and increased income tax receipts, the tax administrator logged Tk 259,866 crore in total revenue in the July-March period of the current fiscal year, according to the NBR’s provisional estimates.
In the two and a half months preceding last Sunday, the DSEX, the benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dropped 794 points, or 12 percent.
At the meeting, the BGMEA also urged the USTR to put pressure on US clothing retailers and brands to increase the per unit price paid for garment items sourced from Bangladesh.
In the July-March period of fiscal year 2023-24, the government paid $1.05 billion in interest, which is 117 percent higher than the $485 million it paid during the same period a year ago.
During its visit to Dhaka, the International Monetary Fund’s review mission will focus on Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves, inflation rate, banking sector, and revenue reforms.
Stocks in Bangladesh yesterday staged a comeback, breaking a five-day losing streak as investors regained some confidence in the market after learning that the regulator is working to revitalise trading.
Kazi Ahsan Khalil has been appointed as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer of Meghna Bank.
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked all the returning officers to provide information about the candidates in the second phase of the Upazila Parishad election to prevent loan defaulters from becoming candidates
It made Tk 106.7 crore in 2024’s Q1, up from Tk 42 crore in 2023’s Q1