Ahsan Habib

Monno Jute Stafflers yesterday became the most valued stock on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, overtaking British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company in what can be viewed as a curious development for the premier bourse.

Most of the mutual funds have been trading at lower than their face value for several years now as poor performance and mismanagement by fund managers spoiled investors' appetite.

Net foreign investment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange fell to Tk 207 crore in the negative in June because of fears over political

The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) has taken up cultivating organic and pesticide-free vegetables, pulses and fruits on fallow land along with fish farming to reduce its annual losses to some extent.

Prices of newly listed companies continue to rise abnormally on the Dhaka Stock Exchange without any apparent reason, which experts said may eat up general investors' money.

The benchmark index and turnover of the capital bourse took a leap in the last three days thanks to the finance minister's move to defibrillate the market.

Private investment, job creation and narrowing income inequality are the major challenges for the country between 2018-19 and 2020-21, according to the government's medium-term macroeconomic policy statement.

A corporate tax cut for listed banks, insurance companies and financial institutions and announcement of development measures for the bond market are the only achievements of stock investors from the budget announced for FY 2018-19.

Keya Cosmetics, listed on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), has violated regulations by not yet publishing the second and third quarterly

Net foreign investment in the premier bourse witnessed a drastic fall last month due to fears centring political uncertainty in the

Lengthy process, legal bindings to publish all information and inconvenience of holding annual general meetings put off big groups from getting listed despite the privilege of 10 percent lower corporate tax.

Golden Harvest Ice Cream Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Golden Harvest Agro Industries, signed an agreement with IFC

Petrobangla is working to list eight of its gas distribution companies in the stock market, in a development that is set to bring some cheer to

The share prices of Queen South Textile and Legacy Footwear almost doubled in the last one month for no apparent reason, in a

Some 18 of the 30 listed banks saw their earnings per share (EPS) plummet in the first quarter of the year because of huge

On February 22, 2017, Central Pharma-ceuticals informed through the Dhaka Stock Exchange that its sponsors' shares will be bought

DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, continued to plummet for the twelfth day, its longest losing streak yet, with investors losing more than Tk 17,204 crore thus far.

The Dhaka Stock Exchange can brace itself for some radical technological upgrades in the near future that would take it to global standards after Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) became its strategic partner.

The daily average turnover of the premier bourse, an important indicator of its vitality, dropped 24.95 percent in April to Tk 547.36

ACI, a blue-chip stock, has been disappointing investors with its sliding earnings in the first three quarters of the financial year.