Metro, Teesta, tax reform top govt’s 5yr plan
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The government has announced a five-year strategic framework outlining reforms and infrastructure projects.
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Govt sets five-year plan to clean up banking sector
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The government has set out a five-year plan to clean up the banking sector, with a focus on recovering bad loans, tightening supervision, improving governance and restoring depositor confidence.
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Economy shows fragile gains
19 August 2026
When the BNP government took office in February, several key economic indicators were flashing red.
19 August 2026
The bridge that never came to be
17 August 2026
Khaleque Bhuiyan still remembers the day the piling equipment arrived at Payrakunj, seven kilometres from Patuakhali town, a spot where a bridge over the Payra river was finally meant to rise.
17 August 2026
Foreign investment in stocks keeps falling
17 August 2026
Policy uncertainty keeps overseas investors wary of Bangladesh stocks, although floor prices and other market restrictions have been removed
17 August 2026
Patuakhali pins hopes on EPZ for jobs, industrialisation
16 August 2026
A total of 306 plots will be created in the EPZ and divided into three categories
16 August 2026
Family card: A cushion for those struggling to get by
9 August 2026
On a low-lying island in Patuakhali, 32-year-old Tanjila Begum’s husband works irregularly as a day labourer in nearby watermelon fields, where seasonal tidal surges often destroy crops and wipe out daily earnings.
9 August 2026
Business Plus / Money talks: Now the machines are listening
1 August 2026
Artificial intelligence is helping banks and financial institutions understand customers, manage risks and make faster decisions
1 August 2026
More IPOs needed
There are 61 merchant banks in the country but they were able to collectively bring in only 14 companies in the capital market last
7 January 2019
6 reasons stocks may rise in 2019
In 2018 stock market investors lost a good sum due to liquidity crisis, rising nonperforming loans in the banking sector and political
5 January 2019
Textile, finance stocks trading below face value
Of the 348 companies listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, 23 traded below their face value as of yesterday -- an alarming development for the market that is already low on confidence.
3 January 2019
POST-POLLS MARKET: Stocks surge 1.5pc on optimism
Dhaka stocks surged yesterday as investors reacted positively to the election outcome.
1 January 2019
Political jitters sink stocks
The stockmarket is feeling the pinch of rising political tension centring the upcoming parliamentary election, stakeholders and investors said yesterday.
17 December 2018
Investors lose confidence in mutual funds
The extension of closed-end mutual funds' tenure further sapped investors' confidence in the sector, with almost Tk 430 crore lost
10 December 2018
Delisting acts as wake-up call for Rahima Food
Rahima Food Corporation has been prompted to return to production following punitive measures taken by the stock exchanges.
3 December 2018
Fate of Imam Button, Savar Refractories to be decided after polls
The fate of Imam Button and Savar Refractories will be decided after the national polls, which were found to have no potential to return to profit in a recent probe of the Dhaka bourse.
29 November 2018
Most listed firms deprive investors of crucial info
As many as 174 out of the 310 listed companies are withholding price-sensitive information on their websites by not updating them in gross violation of listing regulations.
26 November 2018
Benefits yet to reach investors
Frequent gambling, shaky confidence, lower turnover and lack of well-performing companies and new products continue to dog the stock exchanges five years past their demutualisation.
24 November 2018
Foreign funds dip in stocks amid political jitters
Foreign investors sold more shares than they bought in Dhaka Stock Exchange last month mainly because of political tension ahead of
19 November 2018
Stocks slide piles huge losses on GQ Ball Pen
The falling stock market has taken a heavy toll on GQ Ball Pen, which has lost a significant amount of its investment in other
17 November 2018
Not all brokers jumping at tax waiver
Some 21 percent of the stockbrokers do not want to invest the amount they got from the Chinese consortium in the stock market, preferring instead to pay the 15 percent capital gains tax.
10 November 2018
Earnings of listed NBFIs sink
Almost 64 percent of the listed non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) witnessed huge drops in their earnings in the first nine months
7 November 2018
Stocks bleed upon fear of political tension
Stock market investors continue to dread political tension centring on the upcoming national election and in the process bleed money,
5 November 2018
Most listed banks' profits tumble in Q3
As many as 60 percent of the banks listed on the stock exchanges have seen their profits tumble in the third quarter of the year
3 November 2018
United Airways shareholders in distress
Over 95 percent shareholders of the once top private airline United Airways are in great anxiety because of the nose-diving share price and no tangible signs of resumption of services two and a half years on.
27 October 2018
NBR devises ways for tax waiver on capital gains
Stock brokers of the Dhaka Stock Exchange will have to invest the money they will get from the share sell-off to the Chinese
20 October 2018
Listed firms barely explain earnings swing
Most listed companies do not explain if their quarterly earnings see any significant rise or fall in their periodical reports in a breach of
15 October 2018
Blue chips sink, junk stocks go wild
The majority of the high-quality stocks in the Dhaka Stock Exchange sank recently as their usual holders have largely become inactive because of concerns over political uncertainty centring the next national election.
13 October 2018