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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...
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...
-- 2018-01-05 02:56:30
China slightly trimmed its final 2016 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figure after scaling back an initial estimate of the services sector, but kept the annual GDP growth rate unchanged at 6.7 per cent....
-- 2018-01-05 02:28:32
British new car sales hit recorded low, biggest drop since 2009 last year, due to uncertainty over potential new diesel charges and weakening consumer confidence since Brexit. It fell more than 5.0 p...
-- 2018-01-05 02:09:01
Malaysia's November exports expanded 14.4 per cent year-on-year to $20.92 billion on higher manufactured goods demand, government data showed on Friday. The exports of the third largest economic coun...
-- 2018-01-05 01:42:05
British small businesses confidence waned in late 2017 as a cocktail of higher costs, weak domestic growth and lacklustre consumer demand is dampening the optimism among small businesses. The confide...
FE Online Report 2018-01-04 12:30:21
The yield rates of the treasury-bills and treasury-bonds increased modestly in the just-concluded year, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed the returns of 91-day, 182-da...
-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00
Oxfam Bangladesh and SME Corporation Ltd (BSCL) agreed to promote rural based micro and small dairy enterprises for the benefit of marginalised rural people through using sustainable green energy. &nb...
-- 2018-01-04 10:42:21
Revenue earnings have increased at an average rate of 14.28 per cent over the last five years that has ultimately boosted the government's capacity to finance priority projects with own funds. Reven...
FE Report 2018-01-04 10:31:05
The government has issued counter-guarantees worth US$ 200 million against ITFC loans to finance fuel oil import, officials said. The Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide state-owned...
Jasim Uddin Haroom 2018-01-04 09:26:55
Dazzled by the advent of cryptocurrency, a digital asset designed as a medium of exchange in transactions on virtual money market, Bangladesh's central bank began to devise ways of dealing with it. P...
-- 2018-01-04 09:20:07
The country’s foreign exchange reserves rose to USD 33.23 billion at the end of December – marking $630 million rise compared to that of November. Bangladesh Bank said the reserve stood n...
-- 2018-01-04 04:26:52
China will keep its target for economic growth at “around 6.5 percent” in 2018, unchanged from last year, policy sources told Reuters. The second largest economic country of the world see...
FE Report 2018-01-03 12:00:00
The government now intends to build a bigger-sized LNG import terminal having the capacity of 7.5 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) instead of 5.5 Mtpa to meet the demand for natural gas in future. Stat...
-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00
The number of jobless people in Germany fell by 183,000 in December compared with a year earlier and the country finished the year with a record 44.3 million people in work. The unemployment rate rem...
Siddique Islam 2018-01-03 10:57:30
Commercial banks are expected to get a latest directive for implementing the asset-liability management (ALM) guidelines strictly to duck possible liquidity pressure in an emerging lopsided-market sce...
-- 2018-01-03 02:13:18
US home prices are projected to increase 4.2 per cent on a year-on-year basis from November 2017 to November 2018, according to a new report released Tuesday. Home prices in the United States are up...
FE Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will import around 330,000 tonnes of refined petroleum products, especially diesel and jet fuel, this month under both term and open bidding system...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
Living expenditure increased by 8.44 per cent and price of commodity and services jumped by 7.17 per cent in 2017, the Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh (CAB) latest study revealed. In 2016,...
-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00
Asian manufacturing sectors ended a strong 2017 on a mixed note, with activity at multi-year highs in Taiwan and India and surprisingly picking up in China. “Robust external demand and accommo...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 16 development projects at a combine cost of Tk 52.21 billion. The approved 16 project include new naval base establishme...
FE Report 2018-01-02 11:39:21
The inward remittance flow remained pegged into a negative territory despite a significant rise in overseas jobs of Bangladeshi nationals by official count in the just-concluded year. The remittance...
-- 2018-01-02 07:55:50
Narayanganj District Jail recently launched Bangladesh’s first integrated Ready Made Garment (RMG) factory to be completely run by inmates. The facility, comprising 53 machines, will allo...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 07:20:01
The point-to-point inflation rate in December dropped to 5.83 per cent – thereby recording a slight decrease over November, according to the latest official data. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-02 06:27:57
Indian state-owned oil company has chalked out plan to supply liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the northeastern states through Bangladesh. Sources concerned said the move will drastically cut the ref...
-- 2018-01-02 05:00:47
Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is keen on boosting trade with Bangladesh to achieve the common aspirations of the two friendly countries. BCCI Chairman Khalid Abdulrahman Al-Moayyed...
-- 2018-01-02 02:57:07
Singapore’s economic growth slowed in the Fourth Quarter (Q4) as factories lost steam, but a services sector recovery has bolstered expectations. The economy expanded 3.1 per cent in the Q4 fro...
-- 2018-01-02 02:23:49
The manufacturing activity of India expanded at the fastest pace in five years in December, a private sector survey showed on Tuesday. Tuesday’s data showed that Indian business continues to re...
Reuters 2018-01-01 12:51:32
China will maintain prudent monetary policy and reasonable loan growth in 2018, central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan said in comments published on Sunday. In a new year’s message, Governor Zhou sa...
BBC 2018-01-01 12:00:00
Value Added Tax (VAT) has been introduced in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the first time. The 5.0 per cent levy is being applied to the majority of goods and services. Gulf states h...
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