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-- 2017-12-23 02:32:13
Turkey’s parliament has approved the country’s 2018 budget, which includes increased spending on defence and projects a rise in the fiscal deficit to 65.9 billion lira ($17.28 billion)....
FE Report 2017-12-22 12:59:34
Prof Dr Rehman Sobhan identified on Thursday a number of areas of ethical failures, including capital market, banking sector and functioning of commodity market. He also found ethical failures in o...
-- 2017-12-22 12:44:34
Venezuela’s economy shrank 16.5 per cent in 2016, the government said on Thursday, as the oil-dependent nation continued to slump as a result of weak crude prices. Venezuela’s governmen...
-- 2017-12-22 12:20:00
Business confidence among British businesses has picked up to its highest level since July as firms expect a busier 2018, though optimism remains well below its level before last year’s Brexit v...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-22 12:00:00
The Bridges Division is on the list of the worst performers among the big ministries implementing development projects, as execution of its key Padma Bridge project has faced setback, officials said o...
FE Report 2017-12-22 12:00:00
Country's apex trade body Thursday requested India to remove non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and establish direct air connectivity between Dhaka and Assam's capital Guwahati for boosting bilateral trade....
-- 2017-12-22 07:09:21
The increasing economic activities of the country over the years are working as catalyst in driving the insurance sector forward. The sector, in return, is demonstrating a surge of economic activitie...
-- 2017-12-22 01:24:57
The Federal Reserve, which was at the center of an unsolved $81-million cyber heist nearly two years ago, is ready for further talks with foreign counterparts to address the lingering risks of cyber...
-- 2017-12-22 01:03:09
Japan’s nationwide core consumer price index (CPI) likely rose 0.8 per cent in November from a year ago, unchanged from October’s reading, a Reuters poll found on Friday. The country&rsqu...
-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00
The central bank has asked the all the banks and NBFIs to connect their established Point of Sale (POS) with the National Payment Switch of Bangladesh (NPSB) by December 2018. The banks and NBFIs (no...
-- 2017-12-21 11:58:53
The Finance Minister has said that the directors of The Farmers Bank Limited have destroyed the bank by way of looting. According to Mr AMA Muhith, "It's the directors who destroyed The Farmers Bank...
Reuters 2017-12-21 10:53:43
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday despite growing signs of strength in the economy, signalling that it was in no rush to edge away from crisis-mode stimulus with inflation stil...
Siddique Islam 2017-12-21 10:38:27
The central bank has increased the allocation of Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme by 20 per cent or US$500 million aiming to facilitate the country's exporters for boosting their business activiti...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-21 10:03:11
Around 95 per cent of the businesses having VAT registration were still conducting import-export and other activities with their old identification numbers (BINs) the validity of which is set to expir...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Government revenue receipts remain far off an 'ambitious' target set for the current financial year (FY) as the collection in July-November period missed the mark by Tk 95 billion. By official count,...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Bangladesh received US$1.72 billion worth of foreign aid in July-November period this fiscal year (FY2017-18). The disbursements of the concessional medium- and long-term (MLT) assistance were 91 per...
Reuters 2017-12-20 12:00:00
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Wednesday was expected to give final approval to a sweeping tax bill and send it to President Donald Trump to sign into law, sealing his first...
-- 2017-12-20 09:10:18
Implementation rate of the annual development programme (ADP) during the July-November period of current fiscal year reached 20.11 per cent with an expenditure of Taka 329.97 billion. The rate was 19...
-- 2017-12-20 08:41:01
Five key challenges should be addressed to effectively implement the projects taken under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Bangladesh, according to a new study of Bangladesh Institute of Bank M...
Reuters 2017-12-20 03:03:42
The US House of Representatives was expected to vote on Tuesday on a sweeping, debt-financed tax bill, with approval likely. House passage would send the bill on to the Senate, which could vote as soo...
-- 2017-12-20 02:10:47
Malaysia's consumer price index rose 3.4 per cent in November from a year earlier, on higher transport costs, government data showed on Wednesday. The annual inflation rate matched the 3.4 per cent f...
-- 2017-12-20 01:53:35
Argentina’s government has passed a reform to the pension system on Tuesday, after days of demonstrations by the bill’s opponents and violent clashes between protesters and police. The...
-- 2017-12-19 03:45:08
Japan’s government revised up its growth projections for the current and next fiscal years, forecasting the economy to expand 1.9 per cent and 1.8 per cent respectively. Consumer inflation is e...
FE Report 2017-12-18 12:52:00
Declining asset quality of Bangladesh's banks could weaken their lending capability, says Moody's as it already finds them in "tighter liquidity conditions". However, the US-based global credit-ratin...
-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00
The country’s main seaport has set a record by advancing 27 notches in container-handling over the period of last eight years. A handout on Monday said Chittagong port was ranked 71st in 2016 a...
-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00
About 1.3 million foreign drivers in Saudi Arabia are likely to lose their jobs as its kingdom prepares to issue driving licences to women. According to an Arab News report, run by bdnews24, 87.2 per...
FE Online Report 2017-12-18 12:00:00
The World Bank (WB) has approved a loan of $245 million to make the country’s social safety-net programmes accountable and transparent. The Board of Directors of WB approved the loan at its hea...
-- 2017-12-18 11:42:22
Japanese exports accelerated sharply in November, yet again pointing to growing momentum in the world’s third-biggest economy. Data from the Ministry of Finance showed exports grew 16.2 per ce...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-18 10:03:38
Banks in Bangladesh should go through mergers and acquisitions, which a leading banker believes will make the overall banking sector better and stronger through troubleshooting. "I think merger and a...
-- 2017-12-17 12:47:35
Chairperson of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina has said the inflation in Russia will be about 3.0 per cent in early 2018 and will reach the target of 4.0 in the second half of the year. "Inflati...
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