The Financial Express

Country’s most new taxpayers aged below 40!

-- 2017-12-10 09:45:27

Most of the country's new taxpayers belong to the under-40 age group. Finance Minister AMA Muhith came up with the disclosure on Sunday and thanked the young generation for helping expedite the state...

NBR honours 149 businesses on VAT day

FE Online Report 2017-12-10 07:21:14

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) awarded 149 businesses as highest VAT payers recognising their contribution to the public exchequer. Of them, nine highest VAT paying businesses are at national le...

Feasibility study begins on new seaport, floating bay harbour

Syful Islam 2017-12-09 12:00:00

The government began a techno-economic feasibility study to build a new seaport and a floating harbour in the Bay of Bengal for tackling growing trade through the busy maritime corridor. Officials sa...

Revenue collection falls to 10pc in FY Q1

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

NBR tax revenue collection fell short of the target by Tk 65.61 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY), data of an independent multidisciplinary think tank showed. The thin...

Stocks dip for second week

FE Report 2017-12-09 10:40:29

Stocks plummeted for the second week that ended Thursday as risk-averse investors continued to opt for booking profit on heavyweight banking sector issues. Market operators said the cautious investo...

BD Thai Aluminium atop DSE turnover chart

FE Report 2017-12-08 12:55:17

Bangladesh Thai Aluminium dominated the Dhaka bourse's turnover chart on Thursday while top 10 traded companies grabbed more than 20 per cent of transactions. Brokers said the BD Thai emerged as the...

Why BD scores low in the Buffett Indicator?

-- 2017-12-08 12:26:31

Warren Buffett has long championed looking at market capitalisation to GDP (gross domestic product) ratio when assessing a market. For Buffett, the "single best" way to tell if stocks are too expensiv...

Misleading forex info: BB scanning 26 banks' replies

Siddique Islam 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is now scrutinising the responses by 26 commercial banks on their alleged attempts to mislead the central bank with 'untrue information' about foreign exchange rates offered parti...

BB, US Fed discuss suing Philippine bank

Reuters 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Bangladesh’s central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsuit it plans to file against a Philippines bank for its role in one of the world’s biggest cyber-heis...

Sponsor of Premier Cement to sell entire holdings

FE Online Report 2017-12-07 12:14:20

Nashira Sultana, one of the sponsors of the company, has expressed intention to sell her entire holdings of 36,43,080 shares of the company at prevailing market price (in the block market) through s...

Dhaka to seek relaxation of procurement conditions

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Bangladesh will seek relaxation of the conditions attached to procurement of goods and services under the US$ 4.5 billion Indian line of credit-III (LoC-III) at a review meeting to be held later this...

Stocks advance with slow trending

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Stocks witnessed slow trend in early hour of trading on Thursday as investors are mostly cautious to take fresh exposure in the market. Following the previous day’s marginal correction, the D...

Income inequality widens countrywide

FE Report 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Both income and wealth inequalities have increased in the country significantly over the past five years alongside higher economic growth, according to experts and a research. Experts said the average...

Merchandise shipment earnings up by 6.86pc

FE Online Report 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Earnings from merchandise shipment grew by 6.86 per cent to $14.56 billion during the first five months of current fiscal year over that of corresponding period. According to official data released T...

Stocks plunge further on selling spree

FE Online Report 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Stock market plunged further on Thursday, the last trading day of the week, mostly due to higher selling in financial and large-cap securities. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock...

Peninsula downgraded to ‘B’ category

FE Online Report 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Port city-based hotel The Peninsula Chittagong will be placed in ‘B’ category from the existing ‘A’ category with effect from Sunday next. The travel & leisure s...

Public subscription of CAPM IBBL MF to begin Dec 10

FE Report 2017-12-07 10:17:12

The initial public offering (IPO) subscription of CAPM IBBL Islamic Mutual Fund, a closed-end mutual fund, is set to begin December 10 which will raise Tk 300 million through IPO from the general publ...

VAT returns rise two-fold

FE Online Report 2017-12-07 06:39:34

Number of Value Added Tax (VAT) returns increased to two-fold this year following introduction of online issuance of the business identification number (BIN) by the National Board of Revenue (NBR). S...

Buriganga to have underwater tunnel

-- 2017-12-07 02:05:10

Government is contemplating a plan to build an underwater tunnel under the Buriganga to ease hardship of commuters on each side of the river. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan came up with the disclos...

Two donors may finance another metro rail line

Munima Sultana 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The government is expecting to get necessary fund from two development partners for implementing another metro rail line (Hemayetpur-Gabtoli-Notun Bazar route) in the city. A mission from Asian Devel...

BB launches special inspection of troubled Farmers Bank

Siddique Islam 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The central bank has launched a special inspection of the problem-ridden Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) to assess its real financial health, after heads rolled over a crisis of the trouble-hit fourth-gene...