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IPO approval turned into a recipe for market mischief
The stock market regulator approved 127 firms for listing in the past 14 years, allowing their transition from private to public companies. However, the subsequent outcomes are disheartening as most of these companies showed declined performance rather than growth.
Nafeez Sarafat manipulated stock market
Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, chairman of RACE Asset Management, has manipulated the stock prices of many companies for financial gain and caused losses of crores of taka to general shareholders, found a primary investigation of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Stocks see highest rise in 3.5 years
Stocks in Bangladesh witnessed a massive jump yesterday amid hopes of a revival of the market following the exit of Sheikh Hasina from Bangladesh after her resignation from the post of prime minister on Monday.
Govt may let its employees trade in shares
The public administration ministry is likely to allow government employees to trade in the share market, a reversal of a decades-old rule.
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.
Allure of bonds, forced selling blamed for stock market rout
In the two and a half months preceding last Sunday, the DSEX, the benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dropped 794 points, or 12 percent.
Stocks make a comeback
The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) staged a comeback yesterday, snapping a two-day losing streak.
Stocks fall for second day
There were also positive changes in the market capitalisation of food and allied, engineering, and telecommunication scrips, it said.
Stocks plunge again
In its daily market update, Shanta Securities said the market movement was driven by negative changes in the market capitalisation of travel and leisure, paper and printing, and bank scrips.
DSE plans to get green garment factories listed
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is planning on wooing garment factories which adopted environment-friendly practices to get listed so that the opportunity to invest in good stocks arises while the factories can diversify their financing portfolio.
BSEC finalising rules to set up commodity exchange
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) is finalising a draft of rules regarding the commodity exchange on availing opinions from stakeholders with hopes that the first-ever exchange can be launched within a couple of months.
Islami Bank sees record trade of stocks at CSE
Islami Bank’s stock made a record yesterday as Tk 524 crore worth of shares of the lender were traded at the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE).
Himadri’s share price up 60-fold
The stock price of Himadri Ltd, listed with the SME board of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, soared 60-fold in the last four months, prompting an investigation from the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).
The stock market-real economy ‘disconnect’
The biggest factor behind the disconnect is that the largest companies with stable profitability refuse to come to the market.
Banks meet 99.6pc as firms shy from stock market
Though Bangladesh has made stellar progress in many economic indicators in the past one decade, entrepreneurs, industrialists and the entire business sector still rely on the banking sector for financing.