Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited US businesspersons with the assurance of best possible policy framework for investment-friendly atmosphere in Bangladesh.

The debt situation may become tricky from 2024-25 if the government does not ramp up its revenue base now as the repayment schedule for many of the costly loans taken recently would begin then, said eminent economist Debapriya Bhattacharya yesterday.

Turnover at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) reached over Tk 1,200 crore yesterday after two and a half months thanks to an increase in the participation of investors in the market following the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation.

Bangladesh’s total trade with the United States has crossed the $10-billion mark in 2021, a feat that we should celebrate and beat our drums in the run-up for 2022 that is beckoning a 12-billion-dollar milestone! First, let us look at blockbuster ten.

In September last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Joe Biden in Washington on the margins of the first in-person summit of the Quad group of countries, he had conveyed to him that India was ready to supply food grains to the world if the World Trade Organisation agrees.

Associated Builders Corporations (ABC), a corporate sponsor of Mutual Trust Bank (MTB), yesterday announced that it would sell 27 per cent of its holdings at the prevailing market price in the block market.

Rupali Bank, the only listed state-run lender, is lacking in its capital adequacy ratio, said its audit report for 2021.

The country’s foreign exchange market has remained volatile even though the Bangladesh Bank has depreciated the taka against US dollars four times this year.

Earnings from merchandised exports from Bangladesh soared 51.18 per cent year-on-year in April to $4.73 billion helped by higher shipment of garments, home textiles and footwear, official figures showed yesterday.

The government has eased the local value addition criteria for textile and garment makers to claim export subsidy.

Rupali Bank, the only listed state-run lender, is lacking in its capital adequacy ratio, according to the bank’s audit report for 2021.

Believing the businessmen was a mistake as they have hoarded and hiked the edible oil prices abnormally in the local markets after the Eid-ul-Fitr, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said today.

Export earnings soared 51.18 per cent year-on-year to $4.73 billion in April because of higher shipment of garment items amid gradual recovery of the global supply chain from the severe fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) gets Professor Rumana Islam as its first ever female commissioner today.

Anyone who follows the national budget of Bangladesh is familiar with some expressions such as ‘ambitious budget’ and ‘implementation will be challenging”.

The number of internet users in Bangladesh rose in March thanks to increased usage of both mobile data and broadband services for educational, entertainment and professional purposes amid the improving Covid-19 situation.

Brac Bank has launched 39 real-time cash deposit machines (RCDMs) in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Bogura, Jashore and Pabna in the first phase.

Md Nurul Amin, former senior secretary, has been appointed as chairman of Karmasangsthan Bank last month.

A Rouf Chowdhury has been re-elected as chairman of Bank Asia at the 473rd meeting of the board of directors of the bank held recently.

Investors typically take 5 to 10 years of historical data as a basis for projections of the future. But in cases such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or Sri Lanka’s rapid economic deterioration, the past is not a metric that can be relied on for the future.