-- 2018-05-29 09:51:20
The declining rate of budget implementation over the last few years is a very bad omen for the country, Finance Minister A M A Muhith has said. "It is indeed (giving) a very bad signal," the finance...
FE Online Report 2018-05-28 20:49:54
Experts on Monday has laid emphasis on skilled labour force for attaining sustainable economic growth and interlinked skills development system in accordance to the needs of the labour market. They a...
-- 2018-05-28 15:25:31
Profits of China’s industrial firms in April rose at their fastest pace in six months as the factories benefited from higher prices and strong demand, data from the NBS has showed. Profits in A...
Kamrun Nahar 2018-05-28 09:47:37
Lawmakers have identified the legal loopholes as one of the major reasons why bank-loan defaulters go unscathed, in most cases. The 23rd meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministr...
-- 2018-05-27 17:04:16
The Bangladesh Economic Association has recommended a Tk 12 trillion budget for the coming fiscal year, which is nearly three times the current year's budget, reports bdnews24.com "Our budget is reas...
-- 2018-05-27 12:52:14
National Australia Bank on Saturday suffered what it described as a “nationwide outage” to some of its technology systems, leaving customers unable to access banking services or withdraw m...
Syful Islam 2018-05-27 09:54:54
Exports from Bangladesh to SAARC countries are being subjected to various types of non-tariff and para-tariff barriers, according to a study carried out by the Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) recen...
-- 2018-05-26 20:47:48
The revenue collection at Benapole Land Port has fallen below target in the current fiscal year due to a number of reasons. However, statistics show the number of imports to have risen in the country...
-- 2018-05-26 17:42:24
Pakistan expects to obtain fresh Chinese loans worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, Pakistani government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad's growing reliance on B...
-- 2018-05-26 15:36:39
Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank of the largest economic country in Southeast Asia, has predicted 5.15 per cent economic growth in the second quarter. The economic growth in the second quarter t...
-- 2018-05-26 15:10:59
US consumer sentiment index was 98.0 in May, barely below the 98.8 in April and just above the 97.1 in last May's survey, according to the University of Michigan (UM) Surveys of Consumers. The cur...
FE Online Report 2018-05-26 14:42:01
Net inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Singapore declined by 69 per cent in 2017, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that the net inflow of Singaporean FDI...
-- 2018-05-26 11:41:48
The FBI warned that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic. The US law enforcement a...
FE Report 2018-05-26 09:59:23
The state-run Sonali Bank has decided to inject Tk 1.65 billion as equity into scam-hit Farmers Bank Ltd. soon, a senior official said. The board of directors of the state-run bank at its 577th meeti...
-- 2018-05-25 19:37:38
Scientists have discovered three giant canyons in one of the last places to be explored on Earth - under the ice at the South Pole. The deep troughs run for hundreds of kilometres, cutting th...
-- 2018-05-25 16:16:20
Official figures Friday confirmed that the British economy barely grew in the first three months of the year. The Office for National Statistics said the economy expanded by a quarterly rate of just...
-- 2018-05-25 15:12:40
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk gained the support on Thursday of more than half a million people on Twitter for plans to create a website evaluating journalists’ credibility, spurred by his fru...
-- 2018-05-25 13:30:03
Japan’s industrial production was expected to rise for a third straight month in April thanks to brisk export demand, a Reuters poll found on Friday. Factory output was expected to have risen b...
-- 2018-05-25 13:14:49
New European privacy regulations that go into effect on Friday will force companies to be more attentive to how they handle customer data, while bringing consumers both new ways to control their data...
-- 2018-05-24 17:14:59
Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM said on Wednesday the government would auction frequencies for fifth-generation mobile services in September, in a move it expects to raise at least 2.5 bi...
-- 2018-05-24 15:52:47
The Bank of Korea (BOK), the central bank of the Republic of Korea, held interest rates steady for a sixth straight month on Thursday. Monetary policy committee of the BOK held its base rate KROCR...
-- 2018-05-24 15:11:50
Maria Florencia Humano opened a clothing store in 2016, convinced that Argentina’s long history of economic crises had ended under pro-business President Mauricio Macri. She will shutter it lat...
-- 2018-05-24 15:11:42
Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment firm Go-Jek on Thursday said it would enter Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in the next few months, investing $500 million in its internatio...
-- 2018-05-23 17:10:28
A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year. Like their predec...
-- 2018-05-23 17:09:05
Amazon has defended working with US police forces to provide facial recognition technology, amid concern from civil rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and others, said the reta...
-- 2018-05-23 14:21:31
Singapore’s headline consumer price index (CPI) rose lower than expected in April from a year earlier, data showed on Wednesday. The all-items CPI of the city-state edged down to 0.1 per cent,...
-- 2018-05-23 11:17:32
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to EU lawmakers, saying the company had not done enough to prevent misuse of the social network and that regulation is “important and inev...
FE Report 2018-05-23 10:09:34
The central bank has approved a manual for the floating rate treasury bond (FRTB), paving the way for issuing such a debt instrument in the country. The government had earlier decided to issue such...
-- 2018-05-22 17:32:18
China launched a relay satellite early on Monday designed to establish a communication link between earth and a planned lunar probe that will explore the dark side of the moon, the official Xinhua new...
-- 2018-05-22 17:05:44
A Tk 383.97 billion primary education project was approved on Tuesday in a bid to strengthen the country’s primary education system. The approval came at the weekly meeting of Executive Committ...
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