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-- 2018-01-31 14:16:05
Thailand’s annual industrial output rose for a second straight month in December, helped by higher production of rubber, cars and car engines and petroleum, but missed expectations. The manufac...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-31 13:26:48
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) Jan. 31--S&P Global Ratings said today that its rating and outlook on PTT Global Chemical Public Co. Ltd. (PTTGC: BBB/Stable/--) are not affected by the comp...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-01-31 09:17:16
Economists find the new monetary policy statement wanting in adequate strategies to ensure quality bank lending as a counterbalance to excessive growth in private credits. During their critical appre...
FE Report 2018-01-31 00:00:00
Households of Bangladeshi nationals working overseas have achieved no improvement in poverty rate in last three years. A study of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) said about 9.0...
-- 2018-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been witnessing a tremendous growth of its middle-class population over the last two decades. However, the full potential of this driving economic force still remains untapped du...
-- 2018-01-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to appoint SK Sur Chowdhury as its Banking Reform Adviser after completion of his tenure as Deputy Governor of the bank. A BB press release said SK Sur Chowdhury...
-- 2018-01-30 21:24:25
Investment proposals recorded 18.45 per cent rise during the period of October-December of 2017. Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) received 483 proposals involving a total of...
FE Online Report 2018-01-30 19:04:01
The central bank slashed the limit of advance-deposit ratio (ADR) on Tuesday. The move has been taken to help check any possible liquidity pressure on the market due to ‘aggressive lending.&rsq...
-- 2018-01-30 18:45:48
A senior minister on Tuesday said Bangladesh is ready to face any challenge that may emerge from LDC graduation. He continued, moreover, the country would be able to get generalised system of prefere...
-- 2018-01-30 14:49:14
Japan’s job market is the tightest it’s been in more than 40 years, raising prospects for higher consumer spending and inflation. The employment data along with solid retail figures relea...
-- 2018-01-30 14:12:19
Kuwait has announced a state budget for the year ending on March 31, 2019 with a deficit of 17.00 billion dollars or 6.556 billion dinars. The petroleum-based economic country on Monday projected s...
FE Report 2018-01-30 09:50:49
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is not against allowing new banks, but it would depend on the decision by its board of directors, the central bank governor said. "We are not making a u-turn regarding allowing o...
Munima Sultana 2018-01-30 09:39:48
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought around 75 per cent higher allocation in the revised budget for the current fiscal year aiming to carry out periodic maintenance works. Sources said...
Rezaul Karim 2018-01-30 00:00:00
Microcredit sector might face some challenges, including less inflow of foreign funds, after Bangladesh's gradation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status, the regulator predicts. In its concept p...
FE Online Report 2018-01-30 00:00:00
The country’s current account deficit is likely to cross US$4.0 billion by the end of this fiscal year (FY18) over widening trade gap due to higher import payments against lower export receipts....
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-01-29 00:00:00
Economists suggest the forthcoming monetary policy should be "contractionary" to manage impact of election-time splurge on the economy and multifarious tensions persisting on the money market. Howeve...
-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00
China’s economic growth will likely slow to 6.5-6.8 per cent this year, a senior official at the country’s top economic planner wrote in the Beijing Daily on Monday. The official said thi...
FE Online Report 2018-01-29 00:00:00
The central bank of Bangladesh has unveiled cautious and growth-supportive monetary policy aiming to curb inflation through discoursing credit flow to the less productive sectors. “The monetary...
FE Online Report 2018-01-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh is set to become the seventh country to send technical interns to Japan. To this effect, Dhaka and Tokyo inked a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on Monday, said a media release by Ministry...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-01-28 00:00:00
The Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting between Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is scheduled to take place in the UAE's capital city of Abu Dhabi on February 5-6, after a long gap of...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-28 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) expects to mobilise Tk 83.65 billion in additional revenue from large taxpayers in the second half of the current fiscal year by resolving legal disputes and 4G lic...
FE Online Report 2018-01-28 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has asked the central bank to remain alert ahead of the parliamentary election to cut down the influnce of black money. The black money holders might try to use their undi...
-- 2018-01-28 00:00:00
Japan has expressed interest to continue cooperation with Bangladesh in various sectors, including power and energy. "Prime Minister Sinzo Abe desires to continue cooperation with Bangladesh in...
-- 2018-01-28 00:00:00
The central bank will announce its second half-year (January - June) monetary policy of the current fiscal today (Monday). Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir will unveil the monetary policy stateme...
Reuters 2018-01-27 17:49:12
Beijing will shut 1,000 manufacturing companies by 2020 under a years-long plan to restructure its economy, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing a city official. The closures...
-- 2018-01-27 17:44:04
The European Union (EU) has said Bangladesh must diversify exports and attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) to make the country’s economic growth sustainable. It said Bangladesh...
Syful Islam 2018-01-27 10:09:42
Due to delay in executing new VAT law for two years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government about its impacts on revenue collection over the budgetary target, officials said....
Ismail Hossain 2018-01-27 09:46:07
A regulatory move to expand microcredit operations through 37 poorer districts looks frustrated, primarily as newly licensed NGOs-MFIs couldn't deliver, sources said.The microcredit regulatory a...
-- 2018-01-27 01:21:29
The US gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a 2.6 per cent annual rate in the fourth quarter (Q4), compared to 3.2 per cent in the third quarter, the Commerce Department has said. The economic growth...
-- 2018-01-27 00:00:00
A group of investors has urged 160 major retailers to back the renewal of an agreement which promotes the safety of millions of workers in garment factories in the country. According to a global new...
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