The outgoing year has been an exceptional one for global commodity markets due to the surge in prices triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war and spike in demand following the recovery of economies from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Private energy importers suffered a lot in 2022 alongside government organisations.

2022 is one of the rare years when businesses and the overall economy experienced a mixed environment. Since the beginning of the year, as the pandemic situation was slowly getting better throughout the world, restrictions in goods and people movement were also being lifted deliberately.

As the world was coming out from the COVID-19 induced economic headwinds, 2022 became another unprecedented year for the globe and Bangladesh. We experienced supply line gridlocks, first due to unprecedented global consumer demand resurgence as COVID eased and later due to the Russia-Ukraine war leading to exceptional commodity cost inflation.

The year 2022 has been yet another challenging year. After a vibrant first quarter of economic activities, on the path of strong recovery from global onslaught of pandemic, the world was faced with another strong headwind from the geopolitical fallouts of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ekramul Haque, a farmer of Lalmonirhat sadar upazila, had leased four acres of land in Harati union back in 2018 to try his hand at growing oranges.

Major indices of the stock market in Bangladesh mostly saw decline throughout the outgoing year while turnover also took a plunge amid the gloomy economic scenario.

Near term challenges don’t define long term potential

One could not ask for more from Bangladesh at the outset of 2022 as the country rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic-induced lows and people’s two-year struggle appeared to be over finally and they were raring to return to normalcy.    

Bank Asia has arranged a discussion meeting and dua mahfil to observe the 14th anniversary of its Islamic banking services at the bank’s corporate office in Paltan, Dhaka on December 26.

Brac Bank signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with online platform Go DESHi to jointly work for developing women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. 

The government yesterday approved a proposal to buy 2.09 crore litres of soybean oil and 8,000 tonnes of lentils for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. 

ASM Packall Export Industry has signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (Bepza) to invest $4.8 million to establish a garment accessories plant in the Mongla Export Processing Zone (Mongla EPZ).

Once a young boy went to a “Boishakhi Mela” with his father and came upon a vendor selling parrots, which he wished to have dearly.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) yesterday approved two exchange traded funds (ETF), namely LB Multi Asset Income ETF and FAM DG Bengal Tiger ETF, which are the first-ever ETF funds in the country.

Bangladesh economy was all set at the beginning of 2022 to get its growth momentum back after recovering from the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic. But, the start of the Ukraine war in February slowed the country’s joy run significantly, making it an eventful year to remember. Let’s see how 2022 was for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh's stock market ended 2022 with a rising trend today.

A staggering three-fourths of households in Bangladesh think they do not need access to the internet as the required data and devices are still too expensive for them, according to a survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Tourist spots across Bangladesh are abuzz with both domestic and foreign travellers as the coming of winter, the country’s main holiday season, has again brought cheers to the tourism sector following the relaxing of enforcement of pandemic restrictions since the middle of last year.

Stocks in Bangladesh yesterday returned to the green territory following two days of decline while turnover of the country’s premier bourse in Dhaka took a dive.