The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has recommended separate proposals to import five liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes to meet the country's fuel requirements

IMF mission chief for Bangladesh says in a statement

Crude investors appear unmoved as they await solid progress

Oil prices trended lower on Tuesday following the previous session’s sharp gains as ​the market remained cautious about progress in US-Iran peace talks.

India and the United States are “about 99 percent” done with the first tranche of a trade deal, the commerce minister said, as a US delegation began talks in New Delhi on Tuesday.

A surge of US crude oil is arriving in Asia, but the record volumes are nowhere near enough to offset the loss of cargoes from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The auction covers 44 lots comprising goods from 102 containers, including chemicals, machinery and spare parts, paper, freezers, generators, limestone, fabrics, transformers, quartz powder and household items

The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has expressed a positive position regarding Bangladesh’s request to extend its preparatory period for graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category until November 24 in 2029, according to a statement from the Economic Relations Division (ERD) issued today

"About 99 percent of the issues have been settled," Indian commerce minister Piyush Goyal told reporters in Delhi late Monday

The tariffs would partially replace a 50% tariff on many Brazilian goods imposed by US President Donald Trump last year

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation amending his Section 232 national security tariffs on some aluminum, steeland copper imports, the White House said.

China’s finished steel exports to India more than doubled in April to ‌the highest in at least two years, sparking worries among the latter’s steelmakers that despite the imposition of import tariffs they will be swamped by cheaply priced products.

Gold prices fell on Monday ‌as renewed US-Iran tensions pushed the dollar and oil prices higher, fuelling fears of inflation and reinforcing the higher-for-longer interest rate outlook.

Chinese companies in 15 key industrial sectors received vastly more state support than their international competitors between 2005 and 2024, according to an OECD report released on Monday.

Repression of workers’ rights has deepened around the globe, with even “stable” countries like France and the United States now seeing eroded labour protections, the world’s largest trade union organisation said Monday.

The economic shock from ​the Iran war hit European factories last month, suppressing demand for their goods and pushing up raw ‌material costs at the fastest rate in four years, although their Asian peers saw activity expand due to stockpiling, surveys showed on Monday.

Bangladesh received $3.42 billion in remittances in May this year as migrant workers and Bangladeshis living abroad sent more money home to help their families celebrate Eid-ul-Azha.

Oil prices rose more than 3 percent on Monday after Iran and the US traded strikes and Israel ordered troops to move further into Lebanon in its battle with Tehran-backed Hezbollah

Oil futures fell more than 2 percent on Friday, closing out their steepest ​weekly decline since early April as traders awaited word that the US, Israel and Iran had reached agreement on a ceasefire.

Inflation in the euro zone’s four largest economies hovered ​above the European Central Bank’s 2 percent target for a third straight month in May, preliminary data showed ‌on Friday, as a rise in fuel costs triggered by the Iran war began to feed through to other prices.