Bangladesh yesterday demanded duty free facility on export of garment, jute and jute goods, leather and leather goods and pharmaceuticals to increase trade with Belarus.

Infrastructure Development Company (Idcol) is going to support Ricardo-AEA, an UK-based international energy and environmental consulting firm, in a project that will enable businesses in Bangladesh to access finance to invest in new electric vehicles.

Inflation in Germany could rise above the 2.0 per cent mark for the first time this year since 2012 on rising energy prices even though an economic recovery will be weaker than earlier expected, government economic advisors said Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve may have avoided inflaming the bond market with its latest policy decision and outlook, but as economic growth rebounds and inflation rises, at least temporarily, there are questions of how long yields will remain contained.

Canada’s economy is likely to rebound this year as long as COVID-19 is brought under control, but the government should introduce a “fiscal anchor” to ensure credibility in debt management, the IMF said on Thursday.

Securities settlement for Irish assets worth more than 100 billion euros ($119 billion) has left London for the European Union in the latest adjustment in markets to Brexit.

India’s central bank may have to delay the start of monetary policy normalisation by three months amid rising COVID-19 cases, but barring the return of stringent lockdowns there is no significant threat to the economy’s recovery, analysts say.

Chinese regulators recently summoned 11 domestic technology companies including Alibaba Group, Tencent and ByteDance for talks on use of ‘deepfake’ technologies on their content platforms, stepping up scrutiny of the sector.

The once tell-tale sounds of foundries bringing household utensils into shape out of pewter, brass and copper are increasingly making a comeback in Chapainawabganj.

The stock market ended last week on a negative note amid fears of a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic due to an alarming rise in the number of coronavirus-infected patients.

Most people in Bangladesh prefer to keep their funds in banks but lower interest rates on deposits are now turning them away from the risk-free income generating investment tool.

Novo Nordisk, a global leader in diabetes care, yesterday announced the launch of once-weekly semaglutide injection for the treatment of type 2 diabetes patients in Bangladesh.

The government’s proposed master plan on power and energy should help Bangladesh phase out fossil-fuel-based and expensive generation system and guide it towards cleaner electricity, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

The implementation of the 44-kilometre Dhaka-Tongi-Joydebpur rail line under an Indian line of credit (LoC) has made progress of 31.2 per cent since its construction began 11 years ago.

If you happen to come upon t-shirts being sold in the United States or the European Union (EU), the chances are that the Vietnamese ones have outdone the Bangladeshis, securing twofold the export price.

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs after the Fed predicted a fast economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and said it would maintain its interest rate at close to zero.

Chinese companies targeted by a sweeping investment ban imposed by former President Donald Trump are considering suing the US government after a federal judge on Friday suspended a similar blacklisting for Beijing-based smartphone maker Xiaomi.

European car registrations fell in February, industry data showed on Wednesday, as coronavirus lockdowns and accompanying uncertainty across Europe took a toll on sales.

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Japanese exports fell much faster than expected in February as US and China-bound shipments weakened, a source of concern for the world’s third-largest economy as it tries to prop up growth.