Gold rally continues, hits Tk 2.86 lakh per bhori
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Insurance sector faces demand-supply gap
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Trump-era trade stress leads Western powers to China
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Meta shares jump on strong earnings report
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Bangladesh Bank bought nearly $4 billion in FY26 so far
29 January 2026, 20:11 PM
Business
Samsung logs best-ever profit on AI chip demand
29 January 2026, 13:03 PM
Business
Gold nears $5,600 as investors seek safety
29 January 2026, 10:54 AM
Business
SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30b more in OpenAI
29 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Europe scores tentative trade deal win over India
29 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Dollar struggles to recover from losses
29 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Global Economy
Communication, marketing enthusiasts win Commward-2022
Communication and marketing enthusiasts have been awarded “Commward-2022”, an accolade for the advertising sector people in Bangladesh.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Energy firm profit is not evil
British leadership candidate Liz Truss, the front-runner to become prime minister, said that while energy giants should be held to account their profits should not be seen as either dirty or evil.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Global stocks rise, US yields fall as inflation slows
Global equity markets rose while US Treasury yields fell on Friday as investors tempered their expectations of the scale of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate raising cycle as falling oil prices helped to cool inflation.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Payments companies brace for M&A
Battered by a near 50 per cent plunge in its shares over the last 12 months, Nexi, Europe’s biggest payments processor, has not gone unnoticed.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Kazakhstan to start oil sales via Azeri pipeline to bypass Russia
Kazakhstan is expected to sell some of its crude oil through Azerbaijan’s biggest oil pipeline from September, as the nation seeks alternatives to a route Russia threatened to shut, three sources familiar with the matter said.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia economy shrinks as sanctions bite
Russia’s economy contracted by four per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, the national statistics agency said Friday, as Western sanctions take their toll in the wake of Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
US says India hid Russian origin of fuel shipped to US
The United States has expressed concern to India that it was being used to export fuel made from Russian crude, through high-seas transfers to hide its origin, to New York in violation of US sanctions, a top Indian central banker said on Saturday.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM
US gasoline prices fall
The average price of US retail gasoline fell below $4 per gallon on Thursday for the first time in months, giving some relief to drivers in the world’s largest consumer of the fuel.
11 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Asian currencies bear retreat
Bearish bets on emerging Asian currencies eased on hopes that monetary tightening will cool red-hot inflation, with short bets on the Thai baht falling sharply after the first-rate hike in the country in nearly four years, a Reuters poll found.
11 August 2022, 18:00 PM
MCCI seeks five-year term for trade licences
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) yesterday urged the government to extend the validity of all trade licences by up to five years in a bid to reduce the sufferings faced in renewing such certifications each year.
11 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Malaysia Airlines to buy 20 Airbus jets
Malaysia Airlines is poised to announce a deal next Monday to acquire 20 Airbus A330neo wide-body jets, industry sources said on Wednesday.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Russian oil transit via Ukraine halted for sanctions
The supply of Russian oil to three European countries through Ukraine has been halted as the transit payment cannot be processed due to sanctions, Russian firm Transneft said Tuesday.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM
SoftBank to book $34b gain from Alibaba shares
SoftBank Group Corp on Wednesday said it will book an estimated gain of 4.6 trillion yen ($34.08 billion) on settling prepaid forward contracts using shares in Alibaba Group Holding, reducing its stake to 14.6 per cent from 23.7 per cent.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM
China’s factory inflation hits 17-month low
China’s factory-gate inflation eased to a 17-month low in July, defying global cost pressures as slower domestic construction weighed on raw material demand, although consumer price increases hit a two-year high as pork supplies tightened.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM
China property woes cast shadow over management units
China’s real estate crisis is casting a darkening cloud over governance and financial prospects of once highly valued property management companies, triggering a rout in their shares and making investors cautious.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Indian companies swap dollar for Asian currencies to import Russian coal
Indian companies are using Asian currencies more often to pay for Russian coal imports, according to customs documents and industry sources, avoiding the US dollar and cutting the risk of breaching Western sanctions against Moscow.
10 August 2022, 12:16 PM
Small export basket failing Chinese trade benefit
Bangladesh can make little use of the generous duty benefits offered by China simply because of its narrow export basket, with the situation compounded by the fact that the products are low in demand in the East Asian country.
9 August 2022, 02:45 AM
Oil stays near multi-month lows
Oil prices inched up from multi-month lows on Monday as lingering worries about demand weakening on the back of a darkened economic outlook outweighed some positive economic data from China and the United States.
8 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Indian Oil to open 50 fuel stations in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has given approval for India’s Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) to open 50 new fuel stations, a company official said on Monday, as part of efforts to reduce severe shortages that have crippled the island nation.
8 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh offers duty benefit for Bhutanese goods
Bangladesh’s customs authority has provided duty benefits to 43 types of products from Bhutan to enable goods from the land-locked nation to get better market access here, according to a notification issued by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) earlier this week.
8 August 2022, 18:00 PM