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FE Report 2018-09-13 09:20:39
Overall shortfall in provisioning against loans in the country's banking system swelled by over 18 per cent or Tk 12.23 billion in the first half (H1) of this calendar year (2018). The aggregate amou...
-- 2018-09-12 14:35:32
France’s budget deficit will rise next year but stay below the European Union’s limit of 3.0 per cent of economic output, according to figures given by Finance Ministry officials on Tuesda...
Siddique Islam 2018-09-12 09:23:32
The majority of the banks have not brought down the lending rate to single digits despite availing both policy and fiscal supports offered by the government. More than three dozen banks did not re-fi...
-- 2018-09-11 20:46:37
The government has provided Tk 602.68 billion as subsidies for agriculture sector of the country in the last nine years, agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury said. “Highest subsidies was...
-- 2018-09-11 19:56:24
Land (Bhumi) offices across the country has earned Tk 4.59 billion as general and organisational revenue from 2009-2010 to 2017-2018. “The present government has decided to set up land office...
-- 2018-09-11 19:16:22
The ECNEC has approved the Selected Madrasha Development Project with an estimated cost of Tk 59.19 billion in a bid to ensure infrastructural development of some 2,000 madrashas in the country. Th...
-- 2018-09-11 18:29:17
Bangladesh is creating fastest-growing ultra wealthy population over the past five years accumulating more wealth at a faster pace than China and USA, says a new report from data firm Wealth-X. The U...
-- 2018-09-11 18:16:01
The trade deficit of Philippines widened to $3.55 billion US dollar in July as imports posted their fastest gain in more than two years while exports barely grew, government data showed. Trade defici...
-- 2018-09-11 15:10:15
Turkish economic growth slowed to 5.2 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, data showed on Monday, in what officials described as an “economic rebalancing” before an expected second...
Siddique Islam 2018-09-11 09:38:15
Despite close monitoring by the central bank, the amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) jumped by over 20 per cent or Tk 150.37 billion at the end of June this year from December last year. The volum...
-- 2018-09-10 17:43:06
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $350 million in loan and $7.5 million in grant for a project to develop two power lines in support of Bangladesh's national target of electricity for all...
FE Report 2018-09-10 09:37:06
The big regional lending gap emerged one of the major barriers to the country's financial institutions (FIs) in achieving SDGs (sustainable development goals), according to a study released on Sunday....
-- 2018-09-09 12:23:35
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday unveiled plans for tax cuts and pledged spending to heal years of painful austerity, less than a month after Greece emerged from a bailout programme fin...
Reuters 2018-09-09 11:11:13
Tilak Raj Bathla’s tiny weaving factory is one of the few still humming on a once busy road in Panipat, known as the country’s “textile city”. Nearby, more than two dozen othe...
FE Report 2018-09-09 10:42:41
The issue of inequality has an international dimension as the net capital flows from South to North, with the US being the largest borrower, a leading Malaysian economist has said. The world's large...
-- 2018-09-08 19:15:22
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) plans to invest $270 million in a clean water infrastructure project. The project aims to improve access to piped water and sanitation to municipalitie...
-- 2018-09-08 13:13:39
China's foreign trade went up 9.1 per cent year on year to 19.43 trillion yuan (about 2.85 trillion US dollars) in the first eight months of this year, customs data showed Saturday. Exports of the wo...
-- 2018-09-08 12:48:24
Mexican inflation increased to 4.9 per cent year-on-year in August, its highest level in five months due to gas and agribusiness, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) has said....
Syful Islam 2018-09-08 09:47:28
Bangladesh will examine the legal aspects of being a party to the criminal case against a North Korean hacker charged by the US justice department for cyber-attack on the Fed. In February 2016, the c...
-- 2018-09-07 18:25:00
The euro zone economy grew at 0.4 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) as business and other investments rose sharply while net trade was negative, a statistics agency said on Friday. The agency said...
-- 2018-09-07 18:10:53
The economic growth of Japan is expected to be revised up in the second quarter (Q2) due to an acceleration in capital expenditure, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The poll of 18 economists also s...
-- 2018-09-07 10:58:32
US job growth likely accelerated in August, with the unemployment rate expected to have fallen back to an 18-year low of 3.8 per cent, which would bolster views that the economy was so far weathering...
-- 2018-09-06 21:12:55
Overseas visitors to Ireland spent a total of 2.27 billion euros (2.64 billion US dollars) in the first half (H1) of 2018, up 8.5 per cent compared with the same period in 2017, according to the gover...
-- 2018-09-06 20:48:29
US worker productivity rose at its fastest pace in more than three years in the second quarter (Q2), as previously reported, but the trend in productivity growth remained moderate. The US Labor Dep...
-- 2018-09-06 20:15:17
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has expressed his high hope that the GDP growth rate in the current fiscal year (FY19) would reach 8.25 per cent surpassing the fiscal target of 7.8 per cent. &l...
-- 2018-09-06 19:28:05
The general point to point inflation rate dropped 0.54 per cent to 5.48 percentage point in August from the previous month due to the slight decrease in food inflation, according to the official data....
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-09-06 10:03:56
Transfer Pricing Cell (TPC) of National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been in a dysfunctional state during the last five years due to lack of necessary expertise and skills of taxmen on international tax...
Siddique Islam 2018-09-06 09:45:12
The government is set to raise bank borrowing significantly in September as part of financing its budget deficit for the current fiscal year (FY), officials said. It may borrow upto Tk 130 billion fr...
-- 2018-09-05 20:19:52
Malaysia's exports grew 9.4 per cent in July from a year earlier on higher higher exports of electrical and electronic products, chemicals and chemical products as well as manufactures of metal. Expo...
-- 2018-09-05 18:45:19
Greece raised on Wednesday €812.5 million (942 million US dollars) in a 13-week treasury bills auction, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced. The three-month treasury bills were...
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