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FE Online Desk 2020-05-01 16:41:10
Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC) and Nagad have jointly took on a fundraising initiative for helping the farmers’ community of Bangladesh under a platform named “Amra Korbo Joy&rdquo...
REUTERS 2020-05-01 14:14:59
Nepal has cut its economic growth forecast for the fiscal year that ends in mid-July to the lowest in four years, saying on Thursday the country had taken a hit from a nationwide lockdown to control t...
Siddique Islam 2020-05-01 09:35:53
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks to settle their import payment obligations particularly for petroleum products, officials said. As part of the m...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-30 22:33:34
Summit Alliance Port Limited’s Inland Water Container Terminal (SAPL’s IWCT) located at Muktarpur, Munshiganj with substantial customs-bonded storage capacities and presence of Bangladesh...
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Euro area economy contracted 3.3 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) year on year, while the broader European Union economy contracted 2.7 per cent year on year, the bloc's statistical office said on T...
Siddique Islam 2020-04-30 09:33:11
The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve reached at US$33 billion-mark on Wednesday following lower import payment pressure on the economy due to the worldwide spread of coronavirus pandemic....
FE REPORT 2020-04-30 09:31:55
All field-level value-added tax (VAT) offices will work on a limited scale during public holidays until May 05 to keep the revenue collection process uninterrupted. As instructed by the National Boar...
FE Online Report 2020-04-29 18:24:20
Nearly half of global workforce is at risk of losing livelihoods due to growing number of job losses amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to the COV...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-29 17:14:36
Oracle on Wednesday announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-29 17:01:28
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh has recently distributed food packets and breathing masks among the local communities around its Meghna Plant of Sonargaon Upazilla in Narayanganj in collaboration with Sonarg...
BBC 2020-04-29 16:34:29
As policymakers from America's central bank prepare to meet - virtually - this week, they will be looking to see if the extraordinary steps they have taken to confront the world's most severe economic...
Reuters 2020-04-29 14:51:03
Saudi Arabia’s central bank foreign reserves fell in March at their fastest rate in at least 20 years and to their lowest since 2011, while the kingdom slipped into a $9 billion budget deficit i...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-29 14:51:03
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) has called giving farmers for interest-free loan, rather than a 4.0 per cent interest loan for them. Dr. Selim Raihan, Executive Director of the SANEM...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2020-04-29 13:43:23
Coronavirus is going to change the way we do things in our society- from handshake to how we behave in public places. The social distancing, physical distancing to be accurate, is likely to stay until...
BBC 2020-04-29 12:20:42
High Street fashion emporiums around the world have closed their doors for lockdowns, but the largely forgotten victims are thousands of miles from the glass and steel-fronted shopping arcades. Sabin...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-28 23:08:46
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has advised the banking sector leaders to keep non-performing loan (NPL) at a tolerable level as the economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemic would be challenging....
FE Online Desk 2020-04-28 19:25:01
The Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) through its affiliated organisations has provided assistance worth about Tk 27 crore to the poor affected by the Covid-19 shutdown. PKSF, in a statement issu...
Xinhua 2020-04-28 18:43:15
In a new framework released Monday as a roadmap to support countries' path to social and economic recovery, the United Nations called for an extraordinary scale-up of international support and politic...
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German economic institute Ifo has said it expected the economy to contract by 6.6 per cent in 2020 year-on-year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It said on Tuesday that the Europe’s largest eco...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2020-04-28 09:14:29
The Planning Commission is working on framing the Annual Development Programmer, or ADP, for the fiscal year, 2020-21 with an eye on rebuilding the economy, unsettled by coronavirus and shutdown, of...
Doulot Akter Mala 2020-04-28 09:04:07
The economic downturn due to COVID-19 has severely affected the country's internal revenue collection that posted 2.73-per cent negative growth in March 2020. During the period under review, the Nati...
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Bangladesh Bank has lowered the interest rate on agricultural loans to four per cent from nine per cent and the new rate will continue until June 30, 2021. The central bank will provide the remaining...
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The Bangladesh Bank has announced a Tk 100 billion refinancing fund to provide working capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) affected by the nationwide shutdown over the coronavirus ou...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-27 14:30:52
Employees of Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) have donated their one-day salary for the people in need, who have been suffering during the nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and to h...
AP 2020-04-27 11:56:54
The White House is planning to shift President Donald Trump's public focus to burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Days after he publ...
Reuters 2020-04-27 10:16:56
Another wave of states prepared to ease coronavirus restrictions on US commerce this week, despite health experts warning there is still too little diagnostic testing, while the White House forecast a...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-04-27 09:03:01
Foreign currency dealers have requested its member banks to maintain a benchmark for quoting exchange rates to the overseas firms engaged in remitting money to the country. The Bangladesh Foreign Exc...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2020-04-27 08:47:11
New challenges have emerged in preparing financial statements for business entities in the aftermath of COVID 19. The auditors, in a report submitted to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) recently...
REUTERS 2020-04-26 15:50:21
Plans underway to restart the economies of Canadian provinces do not depend on presuming people who become infected with coronavirus develop immunity to it, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-04-26 09:07:40
The first one month of the ongoing lockdown that ends today (Sunday) has already affected the country's economy seriously. The Health Economics Department estimates the loss during the first one mont...
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