The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose again today after experiencing a fall yesterday when investors went for booking profits.

The Dhaka stocks surged in the first three hours of trading today after experiencing a fall yesterday.

The 2nd Bangladesh CMSME Trade Fair, a month-long trade show, began in Chattogram on Friday but is yet to attract adequate crowds as most stalls are not ready to display their products.

Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque yesterday called for quick implementation of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) to increase export of farm produce.

Md Kamruzzaman, an onion farmer of Durgapur village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, is enjoying a good turn of fortune as he cut production costs by using his own seeds.

The behaviour displayed by shoppers has changed rapidly over the last three years. Global consumer behaviour was evolving to live by the micro-moments three years ago.

Young people in Bangladesh are increasingly joining the country’s largely untapped tourism sector on completion of the tertiary-level education instead of running after government and private jobs.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday devalued the taka against the US dollar to a large extent in order to tackle pressure stemming from an increase in import payments and give encouragement to remitters.

Amran Hossain, a private service-holder, invested around Tk 8 lakh in the stock market through Dawn Securities in 2009.

Tax collection grew 14.2 per cent year-on-year to Tk 126,209 crore in the July-December period of the current fiscal year, according to the provisional data of the National Board of Revenue.

Officers and employees of six state-owned commercial banks in haor, island and char areas will get an allowance between Tk 1,650 and Tk 5,000 per month.

The Dhaka stocks dropped today due to the profit-booking tendency among investors.

The Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) yesterday demanded the central bank allow them to repay stimulus loans in 42 months instead of initially fixed 18 months as the severe impacts of Covid-19 persist.

No  new dyeing factory was set up in Bangladesh last year although the  segment is crucial to supporting the roaring apparel sector looking to  double its exports.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data provides a somewhat mixed picture on how labour is benefitting from the ongoing economic recovery in Bangladesh.

The country’s lone state-run distillery Carew & Company (Bangladesh) is planning to double alcohol production through an automation project and go for market expansion observing a recent hike in sales.

Stocks of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), a state-run listed ocean-going vessel management company, doubled in the last week thanks to the company’s higher profit in the first quarter of the current financial year.

The conventional textbook approach of export-led growth models rooted in export-oriented manufacturing and climbing up the value chain has been the canonical models for growth for the East Asian countries (e.g., Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, and China). This model is widely advocated for other developing countries for both enhancing growth and reduction of poverty.

Wages have ticked up in Bangladesh in recent months, but rising inflation, fueled by internal and external factors, has eroded the gains for the workers in various sectors.

The weekend came as a ray of hope for sellers at Dhaka International Trade Fair-2022 as crowds grew by at least five to seven times in size for the first time since the month-long event began on January 1.