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FE Online Desk October 18, 2017 11:45:23
An agreement was signed between Jamuna Bank and Silkways Card & Printing Ltd. (Silkcard) recently for Card Personalising Service. Under this agreement, Jamuna Bank will personalise all types...
FE Report October 18, 2017 11:13:06
The point-to-point inflation rate hit the two-year-high of 6.12 per cent in last month (September), mainly due to rise in the prices of some food and non-food items, officials said. The Bangladesh Bu...
Doulot Akter Mala October 18, 2017 10:37:44
The revenue board found its online system for submission of income-tax returns largely forlorn and went on a mass campaign for teaching taxpayers how to do it. Sources said less than 100 taxpayers s...
Siddique Islam October 18, 2017 09:37:42
Bangladesh Bank advised the banks which have exchange houses abroad to appoint agents in the respective countries to help prop up falling inward remittances. All banks have also been asked to extend...
FE Report October 18, 2017 09:31:16
Income inequality in Bangladesh has widened further despite decline in the rate of poverty, dropping to 24.3 per cent last year from 31.5 per cent six years back. Official findings in the Household I...
-- October 18, 2017 01:08:55
SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters): The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has a compliance rate with their output cut pledges of about 86 per cent, Fatih Birol, the executive director of the I...
-- October 17, 2017 20:24:25
The poverty rate in the country came down to 24.3 per cent although it is still high at rural level with 26.4 per cent while 18.9 per cent at urban level. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Tue...
-- October 17, 2017 19:42:33
The UK's key inflation rate hit its highest for more than five years in September, driven up by increases in transport and food prices. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) climbed to 3 per cent, a level...
-- October 17, 2017 19:06:41
The rate of inflation in the month of September has witnessed a rise by 0.59 percentage point, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). As per BBS statistics, inflation...
Reuters October 17, 2017 13:48:46
Singapore’s exports unexpectedly fell from a year earlier in September, data showed on Tuesday, their first on-year contraction in five months as electronics shipments posted their first decline...
FE Online Desk October 17, 2017 12:55:34
A high level policy workshop, held in Dhaka recently urged for greater support for fisheries and aquaculture sector in Bangladesh. The workshop was held in connection with the dissemination of a compr...
-- October 17, 2017 10:44:03
Experts called for making Regulatory Impact Assessment Policy to reduce unpredictability of rules and regulations that stymies investment and innovations in the country. Conducting a regulatory impac...
Siddique Islam October 17, 2017 10:31:37
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks for settling import payment obligations, particularly of food grains and fuel oils. As part of the move, the Ban...
Doulot Akter Mala October 17, 2017 10:20:09
Income tax collection from the large corporate taxpayers posted 20.55 per cent growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (FY) largely because of higher financial contribution of the comme...
Reuters October 16, 2017 13:15:38
The leaders of the world’s top central banks who risked trillions of dollars and their reputations to rescue the global economy are now set to walk off stage at a time when the lingering effects...
Reuters October 16, 2017 11:53:11
China’s economy is expected to grow 7.0 per cent in the Second Half (H2) of this year, the central bank governor said, accelerating from the first six months and defying widespread expectations...
FE Online Report October 16, 2017 11:42:28
Disbursement of the industrial term credit declined by 5.16 per cent in the past fiscal year (FY17), according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that some Tk 621.54 billion was...
FE Report October 16, 2017 10:26:24
The government has been urged to ensure easy-term housing loans for the low-income group of people to achieve the SDG 11. According to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), adequate, safe and affor...
Munima Sultana October 16, 2017 10:19:52
A massive fundraising campaign got underway for mobilising over US $190 billion to elegantly improve Dhaka's transport network with metro rails, expressways and bus-franchise services. Dhaka Transpor...
-- October 15, 2017 23:33:02
ULAANBAATAR, Oct 15 (Reuters): Mongolia's coal exports, which have helped lift its slow-growing economy this year, are losing steam, according to trade data. In the first nine months of the year, exp...
-- October 15, 2017 23:28:56
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters): A euro zone budget of several hundred billion euros is an ambitious idea, the head of euro zone finance ministers said on Saturday, suggesting loans from the bailout fund...
AP October 15, 2017 12:46:54
The world economy is the healthiest it’s been in years but could still use a little help from low-interest rates and higher government spending from countries that can afford it, the Internation...
Reuters October 14, 2017 10:50:14
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday he did not see any signs of bubbles or excesses building up in US, European and Japanese markets as a result of heavy money printing by the BOJ....
FE Report October 14, 2017 00:17:31
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed Friday urged the country's exporters and manufacturers to take a 'Look East' approach to expanding and diversifying export market and products. "Our exporters intend to...
Reuters October 13, 2017 13:27:24
Japan’s exports likely grew for a tenth straight month in September buoyed by upbeat demand from overseas, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, underscoring a steady economic recovery. Exports were...
FE Report October 13, 2017 10:52:53
VAT online project (VoP) launched user acceptance test (UAT) of online return submission last week, before introducing it to businesses under the amended VAT rules. The online VAT return filing syste...
-- October 12, 2017 21:06:38
President M Abdul Hamid Thursday asked researchers, experts and others concerned to create stress-tolerant crop varieties for sustainable socio-economic development of the country. "There is no alte...
Syed Ali Asfar October 12, 2017 19:48:56
Bangladesh has been ranked 88th out of 119 countries on the Global Hunger Index this year. The report was released by Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The GHI,...
-- October 12, 2017 19:24:45
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has underlined the need to redouble efforts to create a more inclusive global trading system amidst signs that the developed countries, including the US, were resetting tra...
-- October 12, 2017 11:51:55
Japanese wholesale prices rose 3.0 per cent in September from a year earlier, at the fastest annual pace in almost nine years, due to rising prices for gasoline, metals, and agricultural products. Ec...
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