Making frequent changes to the initial public offering rules by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission have failed to stop irregularities on the primary market in the country’s capital market. The BSEC has amended the rules thrice in the last four years and issued seven notifications related...
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...
অতিরিক্ত সংরক্ষণাগারের অভাবে বিশ্ব বাজারে জ্বালানি তেলের মূল্য হ্রাসের ‘সুযোগ নিতে ব্যর্থ' হওয়ার আশঙ্কা রয়েছে বাংলাদেশের। বিশ্বব্যাপী করোনাভাইরাস মহামারির কারণে তেলের দাম গত ৩০ বছরের মধ্যে সর্বনিম্ন স্তরে নেমেছে। গত ২৩ এপ্রিল অপরিশোধিত তেল ব্যারেল প্রতি বিক্রি হচ্ছিল ২০.৪৯ ডলারে।সরকারি সূত্র জানায়, দেশের রাষ্ট্রীয় সংস্থা বাংলাদেশ পেট্রোলিয়াম...
Negative oil prices, ships dawdling at sea with unwanted cargoes, and traders getting creative about where to stash oil. The next chapter in the oil crisis is now inevitable: great swathes of the petroleum industry are about to start shutting down. The economic impact of the coronavirus has ripped through...
Bangladesh wants to secure more trade benefits from China as a least developed country (LDC) instead of signing a free trade agreement with the Asian economic giant, according to commerce ministry officials. "We don't want to sign an FTA with China because the country is the largest...
There is nothing to be worried about preferential treatment of Bangladesh in the European Union even after the country's graduation from LDC (least developed country) status in 2024, a German diplomat said in Dhaka on Wednesday. "The EU has offered to extend preferential market access for an...
Continued mismatch or value gap in reported bilateral trade of Bangladesh with the rest of the world has indicated that trade misinvoicing is persisting there. The latest report of the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research organisation, estimated the value gap of 135 developing countries including...
Local electronics giant Walton is set to flag off the country's first lift manufacturing plant, in a display of Bangladesh's growing industrial prowess. The plant established at a cost of Tk 50 crore at the Walton Hi-Tech Industries (WHIL) at Chandra, Gazipur has begun test production. "We...
A possible global economic slowdown because of the spread of coronavirus to a large number of countries, including Japan, Italy and the United States, has become a new headache for Bangladeshi exporters, who have already been affected because of problems in importing raw materials and capital machinery...