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India scraps cotton import duty to aid exporters
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Oil prices fall
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Canada enters surprise technical recession
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China factory activity stalls in May as demand weakens
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India’s forex reserves fall to one-year low
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Rising exports lower US goods trade deficit
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India scraps cotton import duty for five months to aid textile exporters
31 May 2026, 18:48 PM
Business
Gold rebounds from near one-week low on bargain-hunting ahead of US jobs data
Spot gold rose 0.9 percent to $3,966.65 per ounce
5 November 2025, 08:12 AM
China extends suspension of extra tariffs on US goods
The two leaders held talks in South Korea at the end of October
5 November 2025, 05:35 AM
Five local companies to import $1.25 billion US soybean products
The five are: Meghna Group of Industries, City Group, Delta Agrofood Industries Ltd, Mahbub Group and KGS Group
4 November 2025, 19:31 PM
Supreme Court cannot stop all of Trump’s tariffs. Deal with it, officials say
US factory equipment maker OTC Industrial Technologies has long used low-cost countries to supply components - first China and later India - but President Donald Trump’s blitz of tariffs on numerous trade partners has upended the supply chain math for CEO Bill Canady.
4 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Meghna, City, Delta to import $1 billion worth of US soybean
The three local commodity giants will bring in the soybean over the next one year
4 November 2025, 14:13 PM
US focusing more on bilateral economic relations with Bangladesh
says top US embassy official
4 November 2025, 13:57 PM
Toyota set for second straight quarterly profit drop as US tariffs weigh
Sales in China and India posted gains of 5 percent and 12 percent, respectively
4 November 2025, 10:52 AM
India’s Russian oil imports rise in October
India’s crude oil imports from Russia are expected to have risen slightly in October from a month earlier, according to preliminary ship-tracking data from Kpler and OilX, in spite of pressure from Washington to cut purchases.
3 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump’s global tariffs to face challenge before Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of powers for sweeping global tariffs in a case striking at the heart of the president’s economic agenda.
3 November 2025, 18:00 PM
US launches global club for trading critical minerals
The US is committed to having enough power to drive and win the artificial intelligence race.
3 November 2025, 06:54 AM
OPEC+ looks set to further hike oil output
Analysts predict a slight output hike when the group of eight oil-producing countries known as the "Voluntary Eight" (V8) holds its online meeting
2 November 2025, 07:31 AM
China made a ‘mistake’ with rare-earth controls
China’s decision to impose export controls on rare earths was a “mistake” and drew attention to Beijing’s ability to use them as a coercive tool, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview published Saturday.
1 November 2025, 19:50 PM
US economy in the dark as govt shutdown cuts off crucial data
US policymakers, financial institutions and business owners have been flying blind for almost a month as a government shutdown has stopped the release of crucial federal economic data ranging from the size of the labor force to the country’s GDP.
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump hails tariff, rare earth deal with Xi
The US leader said the talks yielded an extendable one-year deal on China's supply of crucial rare earths
30 October 2025, 06:21 AM
Trump says China rare earths deal is one year, extendable
China exercises a virtual monopoly on so-called "rare earth" metals, essential for everything from household appliances to cars, energy and weapons
30 October 2025, 05:57 AM
US economy in the dark as government shutdown cuts off crucial data
The void is set to deepen by Thursday as Washington holds off publishing gross domestic product (GDP) numbers
30 October 2025, 03:25 AM
Unilever Consumer Care profit rises 10% in Jan-Sept
Unilever Consumer Care reported a 10 percent year-on-year rise in profit for January-September, buoyed by higher finance income, with earnings nearly matching its full-year result in 2024.
29 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Visa beats quarterly Street estimates on strong transaction volumes, cross-border growth slows
Quarterly net revenue rose 12 percent to $10.72 billion
29 October 2025, 11:30 AM
HSBC third-quarter profit slides on Madoff charges, but lifts income outlook
Its Hong Kong-listed shares rose 2.2 percent in afternoon trade
28 October 2025, 06:21 AM
China and ASEAN, hit by US tariffs, sign upgraded free trade pact
The so-called 3.0 version of the free trade agreement between ASEAN and China was signed into effect at a summit of the bloc's leaders in Malaysia
28 October 2025, 03:36 AM