South Korea’s two biggest electronics firms both forecast jumps of around 40 percent in their first-quarter operating profits Wednesday, with coronavirus-driven working from home fuelling global demand for semiconductors and home appliances.

The mobile phone users may face disruption in telecom services tonight from 11pm to 7am when the telecom regulator will rearrange spectrum among the operators.

Small traders in Rajshahi demonstrated this morning when a mobile court asked them to close their shops, as per government-imposed restrictions to rein in the rising number of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

Small business owners and their employees blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar this morning protesting the government-imposed restrictions on opening shops and markets during the ongoing “lockdown”.

The government will bring in another 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice from India to enrich the country’s food stock.

The International Monetary Fund raised its outlook for global economic growth again on Tuesday, forecasting worldwide output would rise 6 per cent this year, a rate unseen since the 1970s, thanks largely to the unprecedented policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Index Agro Industries gave the bad news of a fall in profits yesterday ahead of its trade debut on the stock exchanges.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought $500 million in loans from the World Bank to help Bangladesh implement its budget.

Logistics services provider DHL Express forecasted business to business e-commerce will increase by more than 70 per cent by 2027 to $20.9 trillion, up from $12.2 trillion in 2019 as Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of digitalisation and purchasing behaviours.

The ongoing countrywide lockdown has made things worse for the milk producers in Pabna and Sirajganj, who have already been suffering from poor sales due to a slump in local consumption.

The stock market continued to rise for a second consecutive day as investor participation increased after many shares reached lucrative prices in the recent bearish trend.

Apple chief Tim Cook portrayed self-driving cars as an ideal match for the technology giant during an interview released Monday by the New York Times.

The International Monetary Fund has raised its projection for the economic growth of Bangladesh to 5 per cent for 2021, up from 4.4 per cent it forecast in October.

The EU authorised the French government on Tuesday to double its stake in Air France and inject up to four billion euros into the struggling airline whose revenues have been hit by the pandemic-induced drop in passenger traffic.

Bangladesh Bank has asked National Bank not to disburse any loan without its prior approval.

Credit Suisse said Tuesday that it had taken a $4.7 billion hit from its links to troubled hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, cut dividends and announced the departure of two senior executives.

Earnings from merchandise exports rebounded in March rising 12.59 per cent year-on-year to $3.07 billion mainly due to a slow recovery in garment shipments over the last few months on the back of relaxed lockdowns in the West.

An Indian court on Tuesday dealt a blow to China’s ByteDance by dismissing its plea to unblock its bank accounts which have been frozen by federal authorities investigating alleged tax evasion.

More than 300 factories, especially textile, spinning and garment industries in Kanchpur, Narayanganj and Narsingdi have been facing a massive production loss every day because of a disruption in gas supply since March 13.

Sri Lanka on Monday banned imports of palm oil and new palm plantations, and told producers to uproot existing plantations in a phased manner, in a surprise move that baffled the edible oil industry.