Thursday, 22 August, 2019
The government has set a new condition for Captive Power Plant aspirants to get natural gas supply for producing electricity to run their industries. From now on entrepreneurs, who want to operate Captive…
DSE leans on red, CSE mixed
Country’s capital bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) leaned on the red zone after four days of…
Huawei launches global industry vision report
Huawei has launched its Global Industry Vision (GIV) report recently, continuing its predictions for…
Hyundai Electronics signs MoU
with Walton to take appliances
Hyundai Electronics has signed contract with the leading Bangladeshi electronics product manufacturer,…
SDF to hold meeting in Colombo
SAARC Development Fund (SDF) will hold its 31st board meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka on August 23-24…
Bank Asia opens
foreign exchange
reporting hub
in city
To ensure automated reporting of foreign trade related transactions for secured customer service, Bank…
Ukraine earns $58.8mn
from ‘small privatisation’
KIEV: Ukraine earned 1.48 billion Ukrainian hryvnias (58.8 million U.S. dollars) from the so-called…
German employment
up 1pc in Q2 2019
BERLIN: The number of people in employment in Germany grew year-on-year by 1.0 percent in the second…
China to further ease
mkt access in pilot
free trade zones
BEIJING: China's State Council decided Wednesday to further ease market access by promoting separation…
News of the day
Washington and Beijing are working actively to revive negotiations aimed at ending the trade war that…
Australia’s a2 Milk
profits surge 47pc
SYDNEY: Full-year profits for New Zealand milk producer a2 have soared 47 percent from last year on…
US dollar falls
NEW YORK: The U.S. dollar decreased on Tuesday, as long-term U.S. Treasury yields retreated again, raising…
European stock markets
gloomy on Italian crisis
NEW YORK: European stock markets turned lower on Tuesday as political crisis in Italy weighed on sentiment,…
Chinese yuan strengthens
to 7.0433 against US dollar
BEIJING: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 21 pips…
S Korea’s producer
price falls in July
SEOUL: Prices for goods and services among South Korean suppliers fell last month on cheaper farm goods…
China’s listed banks
report stable profit
growth in H1
BEIJING: China’s listed banks registered stable growth in net profit in the first half of this…
Sensex starts on a tepid note
MUMBAI: Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty started on a negative note on Wednesday…
Asian markets drop
HONG KONG: Equities fell in Asia on Wednesday as investors took a step back after recent gains, with…
News of the day
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Berlin on Wednesday to kick off a marathon of tense talks…
Uber to invest $75mn in creation of 3,000 jobs in Texas
SAN FRANCISCO: U.S. top ride-hailing company Uber Technologies (Uber) will invest more than 75 million…
US ports brace for surge of imports ahead of new tariffs on China
NEW YORK: The latest lurches in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China set the stage for…
China takes new measures to cut financing costs for real economy
BEIJING: Chinese companies are likely to see less financing burden thanks to a string of new government…
Uzbekistan lifts foreign currency controls
TASHKENT, Aug 21, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Uzbekistan lifted remaining currency controls on Tuesday, allowing…
Gold futures rise
as equities, dollar retreat
CHICAGO: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange recovered some losses…
Chinese shares
close mixed
BEIJING: Chinese stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.01…
US-China trade war
hitting Colorado
wine growers
DENVER: Perhaps Colorado's best-kept secret is the North Fork River Valley (FRV), located in a remote…
Tokyo stocks close lower
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell on Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as investors locked in profits…
US stocks fall
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks fell Tuesday, snapping a three-session winning streak amid lingering unease…
Robotics industry sees booming growth in China
BEIJING: Industrial robot production in China reached 148,000 pieces in 2018, accounting for more than…
East China province reports trade growth with ASEAN countries
NANJING: East China’s Jiangsu Province reported steady trade growth with the Association of Southeast…
‘E-payment gateway for
land related services soon’
Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Wednesday said the e-payment gateway for land related services…
Ukraine earns $58.8mn from ‘small privatization’
KIEV: Ukraine earned 1.48 billion Ukrainian hryvnias (58.8 million U.S. dollars) from the so-called…
Taiwan’s mfg output value down 4.57pc
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s manufacturing sector continued to shrink in the second quarter of this year,…
HK stocks start with fresh losses
HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks opened lower on Wednesday, extending the previous day’s losses and…
Taka gains against pound, euro
The local currency Taka gained against the UK pound and the Euro and it remained unchanged against the…
Commodity at a glance
Prices of most essential commodities remained unchanged in the city’s kitchen markets on Wednesday.…
Corporate Corner
Bank Asia President and Managing Director Md Arfan Ali inaugurates a foreign exchange reporting hub…