Glee has spread around homesteads of sunflower farmers as they are expecting to make a good profit thanks to a bumper yield this year.

The upcoming budget should take a wide range of fiscal measures to lift the new poor out of poverty as they have been languishing in financial plight since the pandemic hit the country more than a year ago because of inadequate support from the government, experts said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday announced a series of urban renewal projects worth 830 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in towns and cities away from London as part of his promise to “level up” the country’s economy.

Asian energy officials on Wednesday disputed the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) call for no new oil, natural gas and coal investments for the world to be able to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, viewing that approach as too narrow.

The US Federal Reserves determination to stimulate the economy through low interest rates and bond buying until employment returns to pre-epidemic levels will likely raise commodity prices significantly in the interim.

Airbus on Wednesday softened plans to sell off the production of mass-produced small parts and said it would consider a union-backed proposal to keep the activity in-house.

US homebuilding fell more than expected in April, likely pulled down by soaring prices for lumber and other materials, but construction remains supported by an acute shortage of previously owned homes on the market.

The government today gave the go-ahead to the import of 33.6 lakh metric million British thermal units (MMBTUs) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) worth Tk 340.62 crore.

The profit of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (Desco) plunged about 48 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal year due to an increase in energy cost and expenses.

Bangladesh Bank has asked banks not to operate any foreign exchange related businesses by setting up central trade processing centre (CTPC) without prior approval from the banking regulator.

Brazil, the largest South American country, has now virtually turned into a death zone after the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The scope to whiten black money will be there in the upcoming budget also, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

Turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed Tk 2,000 crore for the first time in four months today.

Lemon growers in Tangail are very pleased by the huge demand and increased prices for their crop this season.

Stocks dropped yesterday after rising for eight consecutive days thanks to a profit booking tendency among investors.

It may take four to 12 years to complete 1,426 ongoing development projects because of slow implementation and meagre allocation, highlighting the need for the government to prioritise works and accelerate execution to avoid cost and time overruns.

Brisk business during the just concluded Eid shopping season helped traders breathe a sigh of relief amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown and other measures in place to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Myanmar’s deepening political crisis and India’s grave coronavirus situation are prompting international retailers and brands to divert work orders to Bangladesh because of its stability and milder-than-expected impacts of the second wave of the infections.

India’s central bank said on Monday that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has had a bigger impact on aggregate demand than on aggregate supply, and it believes the economic slowdown was not as severe as a year ago.

A rush by companies to boost their sustainability claims has reached foreign exchange markets in the form of currency hedging products where the cost is tied to a firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.