Some 125 publicly-traded companies in the manufacturing and service sectors have expressed fears of heavy losses due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among them, 116 companies are in the manufacturing sector, such as RMG, cement, ceramics, engineering, and tannery sector. The other nine are in the real estate and service sector. These companies are...
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Inflation edged up slightly in March owing to the rise in prices of non-food items although coronavirus-induced panic-buying before the country was placed on a lockdown made some food items expensive. General inflation rose by only two basis points to 5.48 per cent from 5.46 per cent...
Food inflation fell to a 42-month low of 4.97 per cent in February, helped by easing off pressures on some items such as rice and onions in recent months, official figures showed yesterday. As a result, overall inflation dropped to a 12-month low of 5.46 per cent...
Bangladesh’s average inflation crept up four basis points in 2019, which saw fluctuations throughout the year and a skyrocketing of the price of onion, an essential cooking ingredient. At the end of 2019, inflation stood at 5.59 percent, up from 5.55 percent a year earlier, according to...