Unilever beat quarterly sales forecasts on Thursday, helped by a pick-up in home cooking in coronavirus lockdowns and a strong economic recovery in China, and said it would buy back up to 3b euros ($3.6b) of shares from May.

Mercantile Bank has recently witnessed the reappointment of its chairman.

Airbus on Thursday confirmed plans to raise production of its most-sold jets as airlines begin an uneven recovery from the pandemic, despite setbacks in Europe and a rapidly worsening wave of infections in India.

Germany’s unemployment rate stayed stable at six percent in April, the federal labour agency said Thursday, even as a third coronavirus wave forced new restrictions in Europe’s top economy.

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted a 46.3 per cent rise in first-quarter net profits on Thursday, largely driven by robust sales of its smartphones and home appliances due to continued stay-at-home demand.

President Joe Biden will unveil a nearly $2t spending plan to boost the middle class Wednesday as the highlight of a sunny, yet audacious speech to Congress, signaling the Democrat’s bid to reshape America.

Seasonal date traders in Dhaka have moderate sales of the most popular iftar item ahead of and during Ramadan as many city-dwellers left the capital because of the reinstatement of the strict coronavirus restrictions.

An intense heatwave is sweeping across the country. The sun’s piercing rays inevitably cause streams of sweat to run off pedestrians.

With the interest rate on deposits falling steadily, keeping money in the banks seems to provide negative returns.

The garment factory owners should complete the payment of salaries and festival allowances of their workers by May 10, State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian said today.

Uber plans to recruit 20,000 more drivers in the United Kingdom to help fill swelling demand for rides as the country’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease.

Ensuring long-term cash assistance for low-income people should be seen as a strategic objective of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) during the preparation of the next national budget, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Bangladeshi workers in the readymade garments sector suffered a 35 per cent pay cut during the lockdown for the ongoing pandemic last year, according to a new study.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission today reduced the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by around 7 per cent.

The stock market continued to rise for the last two consecutive trading days thanks to higher investor participation.

The South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce Bank recently witnessed the appointment of a managing director and CEO.

The business community is deprived of an opportunity to choose their leaders through a participatory election as directors of the FBCCI are picked through consensus among hopefuls, who are often backed by the ruling parties.

President Joe Biden will call for reversing his predecessor Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy to pay for a huge middle class families spending program, senior administration officials said Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve has committed to sustaining stimulus to the US economy until it has recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic, and is expected to remain firm in that stance when it concludes its policy meeting on Wednesday.

Taiwan’s government on Wednesday accused China of waging economic warfare against the Chinese-claimed island’s tech sector by stealing technology and enticing away engineers, as parliament considers strengthening legislation to prevent this.