-- 2023-01-13 18:22:30
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to announce a new monetary policy on Sunday in line with the advice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bangladesh requested the IMF for a loan of $4.5 billion las...
-- 2023-01-13 17:53:56
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday that there is mounting evidence that the United States can avoid recession this year and achieve a “soft landi...
-- 2023-01-13 16:51:56
Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy - almost halfway to a neighbori...
-- 2023-01-13 12:19:54
Argentina's annual inflation hit its highest rate in more than 30 years last month as prices almost doubled versus a year ago, official data released on Thursday showed, further eroding consumers' dwi...
Reuters 2023-01-13 11:27:45
France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform's handling of online tracking known as "cookies", which the ByteDance-owned company s...
-- 2023-01-13 10:24:59
China's exports shrank sharply in December as global demand cooled, missing their typical year-end bounce, while imports tumbled again as surging COVID-19 infections and a property downturn weighed he...
Reuters 2023-01-13 08:28:52
Residents of China are increasingly on the move after the country's sudden reversal last month of heavy COVID-19 curbs, despite a surge in infections, pointing to a gradual recovery in consumption and...
FE REPORT 2023-01-13 08:09:25
Bangladesh's economy is under risk of facing multiple headwinds, mainly from three fronts like inflation, debt crisis and severe commodity-price shocks, says the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its glob...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2023-01-13 08:05:14
Banks' loan-to-deposit ratio rose in December as deposit growth continued to slow, giving economists to predict its impact on the liquidity position. The advance-to-deposit ratio (ADR) increased to 7...
-- 2023-01-12 19:22:43
The position of basic macroeconomic indexes including revenue collection, remittances, export growth, annual development programme (ADP) expenditure and money supply in the first quarter (July-Septemb...
-- 2023-01-12 17:06:06
Bangladesh's apparel exports to the European Union (EU) increased by 16.61 per cent to $11.50 billion during the first half (July-December) period of the current fiscal year (FY23) compared to $9.87 b...
-- 2023-01-12 16:21:04
Although Bangladesh may not go into recession, the country is significantly prone to many of the recessionary risks if appropriate steps are not taken to diversify the export product and basket and in...
FE REPORT 2023-01-12 13:36:51
Lockdowns imposed across the world during the peak times of Covid-19 pandemic resulted in many socio-economic crises, which now raises the question of worthiness of such strict measures, according to...
FE REPORT 2023-01-12 09:11:02
Bangladesh will buy 2.10 million tonnes of refined fuel oil from India and five other countries under a package of purchases approved Wednesday to meet demands in 2023. The Cabinet Committee on Gover...
-- 2023-01-11 21:29:37
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the country's export earnings will be five billion US dollars from the ICT sector along with huge employme...
-- 2023-01-11 18:44:18
Failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risk specialists fo...
-- 2023-01-11 15:56:04
India's economic growth will slow to 6.6 per cent in the next fiscal year from an expected 6.9 per cent in the current year, the World Bank said in its latest economic update. "The slowdown in the gl...
-- 2023-01-11 11:47:46
The growth of Google's Android ecosystem is on the brink of stalling in India due to an antitrust order that asks the company to change how it markets the platform, the US company has said in a Suprem...
-- 2023-01-11 11:21:40
The World Bank has cut Bangladesh’s economic growth forecast for the 2022-23 fiscal year further by a 0.9 percentage point to 5.2 per cent, due to a combination of factors -- elevated inflation,...
FE REPORT 2023-01-11 10:26:46
The economic zones (EZs) across the country have already created 50,000 jobs and will create more in near future as new industrial units are set to go into operations there, said Bangladesh Economic Z...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2023-01-11 08:53:31
Bangladesh's central bank is agog to launch the country's half-yearly monetary policy Sunday, while many targets last set for up to December have gone missing largely for global and local disarrays....
-- 2023-01-10 21:39:46
The World Bank slashed its 2023 growth forecasts on Tuesday to levels teetering on the brink of recession for many countries as the impact of central bank rate hikes intensifies, Russia's war in Ukrai...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 12:03:56
China's central bank will step up support for private firms as part of steps to shore up the economy, while easing a crackdown on tech companies, Guo Shuqing, Communist party chief of the People...
FE REPORT 2023-01-10 10:58:37
Makalot (BD) Ltd, a Taiwanese apparel maker, is set to invest $17 million to establish an industrial unit at a private economic zone (EZ) in Bangladesh. The factory is expected to create job opportun...
Reuters 2023-01-10 09:25:10
Facebook parent Meta and Google's video platform YouTube said on Monday they were removing content supporting or praising the weekend ransacking of Brazilian government buildings by anti-democratic de...
ARAFAT ARA 2023-01-10 08:54:34
Sending manpower from Bangladesh to Japan has increased significantly in recent years following demand from the employers of different sectors. The East Asian nation hired 180 workers as technical in...
-- 2023-01-09 19:56:43
Bangladesh government is working to gradually implement almost all conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to get a US$4.5 billion loan from the Washington-based lender, to meet the foreig...
-- 2023-01-09 19:29:17
British Prime Minister's trade envoy to Bangladesh Rushanara Ali, MP, has said that British investors are interested to invest in various sectors of Bangladesh. The British MP said this, while she me...
-- 2023-01-09 17:20:01
Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticise the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-09 09:50:32
Argentina and China have formalised the expansion of a currency swap deal, allowing the South American country to increase its depleted foreign currency reserves, the Argentine central bank said on Su...
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