Stocks soared yesterday as investors cheered the substantial cut in capital gains tax by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to encourage big local and foreign investors.
Stocks in Bangladesh plummeted to a four-year low yesterday, just a day after the stock market regulator formed an inquiry committee to investigate the reasons behind the market’s sharp decline.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Young people in Bangladesh are increasingly joining the country’s largely untapped tourism sector on completion of the tertiary-level education instead of running after government and private jobs.
People across the world are eagerly waiting to welcome 2022. And, this is the perfect time to assess your financial goals and evaluate what is working and what is not in order to have a better life in a turbulent time.
Agriculture, exports and remittances have been the key pillars of Bangladesh’s economy for much of its history.
Twinning plants have clambered up its entrance and covered most of the ground leading to it. Filthy water has made a puddle as well. Had the name had not been there, most of the people, unfamiliar with the place, would consider it as a desolate structure.
Millions of people borrow money from family and friends across the world for reasons ranging from meeting household expenditures to educational and health expenses.
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The world of Jannat Sultana Reeta, a fashion boutique entrepreneur in Narayanganj, turned upside down in 2013 when her husband was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. She had to step up to take the charge of the family as a breadwinner.
Most people, especially those from the middle and lower-income brackets, usually choose to buy a ready apartment or flat rather than build their own home.
The prices of daily essentials have kept going up in Dhaka and other parts of the country, hitting the pockets of consumers hard.
Engaging the country’s vast number of migrant workers and non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) in the national development process could open up a new area of economic development.
