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JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2019-12-07 10:12:15
The budget deficit during the July-September period last increased by nearly 200 per cent compared with the corresponding three months in 2018, as gains in tax receipts were offset by higher spendin...
FE Report 2019-12-06 14:38:57
The government wants to rejuvenate its foreign missions abroad across the globe to help boost export earnings, officials have said. To this end, they said, an inter-ministerial committee will hold a...
-- 2019-12-06 14:23:33
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an emergency loan of 1.0 billion US dollar for Pakistan to provide immediate support to the country's finances and help strengthen a slumping economy. Th...
-- 2019-12-06 14:14:31
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of 160 million US dollars to support Mongolian government's efforts to improve the air quality and health in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator. "Air p...
-- 2019-12-06 14:07:40
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is alerting the public to what appears to be an automated phone call scam randomly targeting members of the public, according to a statement on Friday. The scam...
FE REPORT 2019-12-06 10:54:20
Importers have been exempted from payment of all import taxes on different types of seeds of spices and pulses including pepper and coriander. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has withdrawn the...
FE Online Report 2019-12-05 22:00:51
No private bank has reduced the lending rates to single digits as yet, despite getting privileges from the government, which is having a negative impact on businesses. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi c...
FE Online Report 2019-12-05 15:34:05
The country's export earnings continued the negative trend as merchandise shipment witnessed a 7.59 per cent fall during the last five months of current fiscal year of 2019-20. The aggregate e...
-- 2019-12-05 12:23:07
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka hit the 1.6 million mark in November with the arrival of over 175,000 tourists to the country by the end of the month, statistics from the Sri Lanka Tourism Ministry has...
Reuters 2019-12-05 11:42:02
Argentina central bank chief Guido Sandleris resigned on Wednesday, an expected step as Latin America’s third-largest economy transitions to Peronism next week under newly elected President Albe...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-12-05 10:33:54
The government is likely to slash foreign aid allocation in the upcoming revised development budget, as many ministries and divisions have sought lower funds, officials said on Wednesday. The Econo...
FE Report 2019-12-05 10:30:54
The central bank has relaxed regulations on short-term buyer's and supplier's credit borrowed from overseas sources for making payments on import of industrial raw materials. Importers are now allo...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2019-12-05 10:10:17
The first four months of the current fiscal year saw a tax revenue shortfall of around Tk 202.20 billion against the target. However, the volume of tax revenue collection registered a poor 4.33 per c...
BSS 2019-12-04 17:45:23
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday underscored the need for ensuring sector-wise and demand-based financing for those countries which are lagging behind in the economic and social sectors...
Reuters 2019-12-04 13:57:03
US President Donald Trump’s comments that a trade agreement with China may have to wait until late 2020 and a House of Representatives bill targeting camps for Muslims in Xinjiang have cast doub...
-- 2019-12-04 13:47:08
The Afghan government's National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved 35 contracts worth 46 million US dollars, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday. The NPC presided by President Mohammad...
FE Report 2019-12-04 10:12:30
The Philippines has declined Bangladesh's claim for the 20 million US dollars the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) was fined for its negligence in the $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist. "As it wi...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-12-04 09:58:30
The central bank has started working on bringing down the industrial lending rate to a single-digit aiming to spur the country's overall economic growth through job creation and increased investment....
-- 2019-12-03 13:41:40
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday that it has approved a 400 million US dollars policy-based loan to support the Philippine government's efforts to reduce the number of out-of-school an...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2019-12-03 10:01:48
The number of income tax returns, submitted by individual taxpayers until the deadline (December 01), remained far below taxmen's expectations. The number increased by only 0.1 million this year desp...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-12-03 09:50:31
The government is set to make a net borrowing of more than Tk 45 billion from the country's banking system in December to partly meet its budget deficit, officials said. The government's gross borrow...
-- 2019-12-02 19:12:18
Bangladesh received $1,555.22 million in remittance in November of the current fiscal, which is apparently 31.75 per cent higher than that of same month of previous year, according to Bangladesh Bank...
-- 2019-12-02 12:31:43
US online shoppers spent 68.1 billion US dollars in November, with 7.4 billion dollars on Black Friday (Nov. 29) alone, data from the web analytics tool Adobe Analytics showed. US online shoppers spe...
-- 2019-12-02 10:42:14
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced on Monday that its Board of Governors has "unanimously elected" Masatsugu Asakawa as ADB president. Asakawa, 61, currently special advisor to Japan's prime...
FE REPORT 2019-12-02 10:00:08
Former finance minister A M A Muhith has said Bangladesh's economic growth might be impacted by the slowing down of neighbouring India's economy. "To my mind, the ongoing sluggish trend of Indian eco...
-- 2019-12-01 17:22:25
The government is set to form a panel with the task of bringing interest rates down to a single digit. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal gave the information after a meeting with leaders of the bank...
-- 2019-12-01 14:11:21
India will unveil a series of infrastructure projects this month as part of a plan to invest 100 trillion rupees ($1.39 trillion) in the sector over the next five years, the finance minister said on S...
ARAFAT ARA 2019-12-01 10:20:25
About 50,000 Bangladeshi workers would have to return home from Malaysia by this month under 'Back 4 Good (B4G) scheme announced by Kula Lumpur, according to Bangladesh High Commission there. The Mal...
REZAUL KARIM AND FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-01 10:01:09
Finance minister will sit with chiefs of private and public sector banks to discuss the issues of non-performing loans and banking sector volatility, officials said. Officials said finance minister A...
Xinhua 2019-11-30 16:25:17
The annual growth rate of China's economy is projected at 6.1 per cent, according to a report by the Bank of China (BOC). "The overall verdict is cautiously optimistic," the BOC Research Institute sa...
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