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Stocks rebound after three days

Stocks rebound after three days

FE Online Report 2018-01-09 12:00:00

The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed positive trend Tuesday as investors went on buying spree. After around one hour of trading, the prime bourse rose 12 points while the CSE Al...

Move to establish 160 upazila ICT centres

Move to establish 160 upazila ICT centres

FE Online Report 2018-01-09 12:00:00

The government is going to set up 160 upazila ICT training and resource centres with all necessary facilities to train up the teachers of secondary level educational institutions. The Executive Commi...

NBR sets conditions for firms in economic zones

NBR sets conditions for firms in economic zones

FE Report 2018-01-09 10:45:23

The government made obtaining the local sales permit (LSP) mandatory for the industries in Bangladesh's economic zones if they were willing to sell their products for domestic consumption. Also, they...

BRAC Bank tops DSE turnover chart

BRAC Bank tops DSE turnover chart

FE Report 2018-01-09 10:36:55

Top 10 companies grabbed 35.3 per cent of the total turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Monday. The premier bourse DSE witnessed a sharp correction and featured a turnover of Tk 4.77 b...

ADP implementation loses pace in July-Dec

ADP implementation loses pace in July-Dec

FE Online Report 2018-01-09 07:12:03

The government has implemented 27 per cent of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) during the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal.  However, it has failed to improve its project e...

Stocks slip with slow turnover

Stocks slip with slow turnover

FE Online Report 2018-01-09 03:11:59

Stocks ended mostly lower Tuesday, extending the losing streak for fourth days, as bearish trend captured the markets. Dealers said the market closed lower as cautious investors booked profits of sec...

Stocks edge down at opening

Stocks edge down at opening

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed a negative trend Monday with slow trading as investors remained cautious. After first 30 minutes of trading, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) slip...

DSE, CSE plummet on selling pressure

DSE, CSE plummet on selling pressure

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

Stocks plummeted on Monday, extending the bear run to the third session as investors continued selling shares to take profit after the recent market surge. Brokers said retail investors remained caut...

United Power record date today

United Power record date today

FE Report 2018-01-08 10:40:53

United Power Generation and Distribution Company (UPGDC) observed investors' increased participation ahead of its record date today (Monday). The company topped the gainers' chart with a value of Tk 4...

Three 'Z' category cos grab top gainers' list

Three 'Z' category cos grab top gainers' list

FE Report 2018-01-08 10:34:11

Three 'Z' category companies were on top of the gainers list on Sunday on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The companies recently informed that there was no undisclosed price sensitive information for pri...

Ensuring quality credit gets top priority in next MPS

Ensuring quality credit gets top priority in next MPS

Siddique Islam 2018-01-08 09:54:19

Ensuring the quality of credit to achieve maximum economic growth by the end of this fiscal gets top priority as the central bank prepared to formulate country's next monetary policy. Officials said...

WB to give $245m deal for BD safety-net schemes

WB to give $245m deal for BD safety-net schemes

-- 2018-01-08 09:08:29

The World Bank (WB) has agreed to sign a US$245 million additional loan agreement with Bangladesh for ensuring equity, efficiency and transparency in the latter’s safety-net programmes. An agre...

Stock witnesses bearish session

Stock witnesses bearish session

FE Online Report 2018-01-07 12:44:26

Dhaka bourse started the week’s first session with a declining mood as most of its listed securities went red. From the beginning of the session, the broad index DSEX started to decline and con...

Taxpayers suffer as NBR can't carefully verify return audit

Taxpayers suffer as NBR can't carefully verify return audit

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Government revenue authority lacks scope to centrally verify accuracy of the selected tax-returns coming from outfield offices for audit, resulting in alleged harassment of the taxpayers. Sources sai...

Payra power plant project: Govt gives guarantee for US$ 1.0b Chinese loan

Payra power plant project: Govt gives guarantee for US$ 1.0b Chinese loan

FE Report 2018-01-07 12:00:00

The government has issued a US$ 1.0 billion worth of state guarantee in favour of Chinese loan for implementing a 1320-mw Payra coal-based power plant project, officials have said. A senior finance m...

Bangladesh's graduation from LDC status in March

Bangladesh's graduation from LDC status in March

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Bangladesh will graduate as a developing country from the status of a least developed country (LDC) in March. A senior minister of the government came up with the assertion in Dhaka on Sunday after e...

Laggard projects losing funds to faster ones in RADP

Laggard projects losing funds to faster ones in RADP

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-01-07 11:59:37

Revision of the present Annual Development Programme (ADP) began with emphasis on more fund allocations for the ongoing projects instead of incorporating fresh ones-unlike previous practice. As the P...

DSE sees moderate loss

DSE sees moderate loss

FE Report 2018-01-07 03:58:51

Dhaka bourse witnessed a moderate loss in its broad index and turnover amid a declining trend observed throughout the whole session on Sunday. On the first day of the week, the losers took control ov...

MSCI BD Index posts 17.84pc growth

MSCI BD Index posts 17.84pc growth

FE Online Report 2018-01-07 02:47:27

Annual net return of the MSCI Bangladesh Index posted 17.84 per cent growth in the past calendar year. The index, created by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), measures the performance of t...

BSEC asks trustee of Grameen One to comply with 2008 directive

BSEC asks trustee of Grameen One to comply with 2008 directive

FE Report 2018-01-07 02:22:36

The securities regulator has asked the trustee of Grameen One : Scheme Two to comply with the directive issued in 2008 setting a tenure of 10 years for all closed-end MFs. As per the regulatory appro...

Japanese ODA loan package may get delayed

Japanese ODA loan package may get delayed

Syful Islam 2018-01-06 12:00:00

A discord between Bangladesh Bank (BB) and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTMU) over bank-commission payment on the latest ODA loan package may delay the Japanese funding of six more important developm...

16 sectors soar, three in the red

16 sectors soar, three in the red

FE Report 2018-01-06 11:25:46

Most of the major sectors closed higher this week, reflecting the investors' renewed interest in sector-wise issues at the beginning of the New Year. Of the 19 sectors listed with the prime bourse,...

New Year begins on positive note

New Year begins on positive note

Babul Barman 2018-01-06 10:02:22

The first week of the New Year ended marginally higher as some investors have kept their appetite for large-cap stocks, especially power-sector issues. Analysts said the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ma...

WB to lend additional loans for safety net programme

WB to lend additional loans for safety net programme

-- 2018-01-06 07:34:19

The World Bank (WB) is set to provide more loans for the project to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of major safety net programmes in Bangladesh. To this end, an agreement will be si...

BR spends only 10pc of ADP allocation in H1

BR spends only 10pc of ADP allocation in H1

 Munima Sultana 2018-01-05 12:00:00

Despite having higher allocation in Annual Development Programme (ADP), Bangladesh Railway (BR) could spend only 10 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal year due to mainly delay in impleme...

July-Dec exports grow by 7.15pc

July-Dec exports grow by 7.15pc

FE Report 2018-01-05 12:00:00

The country's export earnings grew by 7.15 per cent to over US$ 17.91 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year comparing to the corresponding period of last fiscal. The aggregate export r...

Power sector dominates DSE turnover chart

Power sector dominates DSE turnover chart

FE Report 2018-01-05 10:42:30

Fuel & power sector dominated the Dhaka bourse transaction chart Thursday led by United Power Generation & Distribution Company while top 10 traded companies captured 27 per cent of the total...

DSE sees relegation of eight cos to Z-category in 2017

DSE sees relegation of eight cos to Z-category in 2017

Mohammad Mufazzal 2018-01-05 10:15:54

Eight listed companies were downgraded to 'Z' category, a trading platform for worst-performing companies, from the best and medium performing status in 2017 as two of them were not in operation and o...

Tk 150m shores up PKB paid-up capital

Tk 150m shores up PKB paid-up capital

Arafat Ara 2018-01-05 10:01:00

The government has provided Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) with Tk 150 million as part of raising the state-run bank's paid-up capital to Tk 4.0 billion and transforming the specialised bank into a comme...

DSE, CSE slip after six days of gains

DSE, CSE slip after six days of gains

FE Online Report 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Stocks returned to negative territory on Thursday, breaking a six-day gaining streak, as bearish traders observed the market carefully and some investors went on a selling spree to bag profits. Broke...