Key index rises 500 points in a month
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the premier bourse in Bangladesh, rose 500 points in the past month after a change in the political landscape brought on by the ouster of the Awami League government.
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How life is like when prices go through the roof
Fatima Khatun, dressed in a washed-out kameez, came to Muslim Bazar in Mirpur 12 to shop with her four-year-old son on August 16.
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Informal workers struggling to make ends meet
Day labourers in Dhaka are among those who are suffering the most due to the ongoing unrest along with the curfew imposed by the government to stem the violence.
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Informal workers struggling to make ends meet
“I can’t get you to understand how I managed to pay for meals over the past four days,” a dejected labourer, Muzahid Hossain, said yesterday.
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Number of DSE mobile app users halves in 4 years
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FY24: A brutal year that gutted stock investors
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Amnesty for black money: what are the proposed tax measures?
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Stocks keep bleeding
The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed 58.7 points, or 1.09 percent, to close at about 5,312 points, its lowest in 39 months.
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September 6, 2024
Key index rises 500 points in a month
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the premier bourse in Bangladesh, rose 500 points in the past month after a change in the political landscape brought on by the ouster of the Awami League government.
August 31, 2024
How life is like when prices go through the roof
Fatima Khatun, dressed in a washed-out kameez, came to Muslim Bazar in Mirpur 12 to shop with her four-year-old son on August 16.
July 22, 2024
Informal workers struggling to make ends meet
Day labourers in Dhaka are among those who are suffering the most due to the ongoing unrest along with the curfew imposed by the government to stem the violence.
July 22, 2024
Informal workers struggling to make ends meet
“I can’t get you to understand how I managed to pay for meals over the past four days,” a dejected labourer, Muzahid Hossain, said yesterday.
July 7, 2024
Number of DSE mobile app users halves in 4 years
The number of users of the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s (DSE) mobile app has more than halved in the past four financial years, apparently due to a protracted bearish trend in the market.
July 2, 2024
FY24: A brutal year that gutted stock investors
For stock investors in Bangladesh, the just-concluded fiscal year was the worst in four years, with the benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange losing over 1,000 points.
June 9, 2024
Amnesty for black money: what are the proposed tax measures?
By re-launching the initiative, the government seeks to increase the flow of money into the economy, although such measures failed to yield any fruitful benefit in the past.
May 24, 2024
Stocks keep bleeding
The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed 58.7 points, or 1.09 percent, to close at about 5,312 points, its lowest in 39 months.
May 1, 2024
Heatwave leaves day labourers in the lurch
Despite their willingness to brave the unprecedented temperatures, many day-labourers are still not finding jobs as most employers have put their projects on hold since they are not getting the optimal output from day labourers.
March 28, 2024
Stocks sink to lowest level in 3 years as investors sell and go away
Bangladesh’s stock market has been going through a bear run for the last two months despite petering out of election-linked uncertainty, signaling that the worries about the macroeconomic challenges are far from over.
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