Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and its top business lobby warned on Wednesday that looming U.S. tariffs would have a major impact on the country’s exports and already struggling economy. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce sweeping new tariffs on global trading p
Taiwan's government said on Thursday that US tariffs levied on the island were unreasonable and it would discuss them with Washington, partly blaming US tech curbs on China in President Donald Trump's first term for driving the trade imbalance. Trump on Wednesday announced across the board import
The gold market in Bangladesh has been more volatile than ever, with prices changing 17 times in the past three months, overwhelmingly moving upwards. But why have gold prices been rising so frequently? Traders and analysts attribute this to the aggressive policies of central banks worldwide. In 2
Bangladesh’s state-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) intends to buy three spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes by mid-May to meet the mounting demand for the summer. The RPGCL has already floated three separate tenders for May 01-02, May 10-11 and May 16-17 delivery windo
US President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides, reports Reuters. Details of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff
Gold prices rose to touch a new record high on Tuesday, as investors turned to the safe-haven asset ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned announcement of sweeping tariffs on countries that have a trade imbalance with the U.S. Spot gold was up 0.3% at $3,132.53 per ounce as of 10:08
A US bankruptcy judge on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson’s $10 billion proposal to end tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer, marking the third time the company’s bankruptcy strategy has failed in court. J&J has been
Metro rail services in the capital and intercity train operations across Bangladesh have resumed after the Eid holiday. Train services across the country resumed in the morning on Tuesday (April 1). In a special announcement before Eid, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) stated on its ver
Prices of the petroleum fuels will remain unchanged for the month of April. As per an announcement of the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, the retail prices of fuel in the country will remain unchanged as per the existing price structure. Accordingly, the prices of both diesel and kerosene
Bangladesh sees this year’s BIMSTEC Summit, scheduled to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on April 4, “very important” for the country as it will assume the chairmanship of the grouping for the next two years. Dhaka also thinks the summit will provide them with an opportunity to pres
