The listed company directors who failed to hold 2 per cent shares of their respective companies within 21 May deadline would lose their posts as the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday decided not extend time for meeting the mandatory...Full story
The government on Tuesday fixed the profit margin at one per cent for the importers and the wholesalers in a bid to check price hike of essentials ahead of the Ramadan. It also fixed the profit margin at 10 per...Full story
Commodity prices are on the rise on the retail markets in the city ahead of the month of Ramadan that begins in late July. The prices of chickpea flour (beshon), gram, onion, bottled soya bean oil and dates shot up over the past week. Retailers said wholesalers...Full story
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday demanded withdrawal of the new instructions of the Bangladesh Bank on loan classification and rescheduling, saying that the new...Full story
Dhaka stocks skyrocketed on Tuesday as investors became optimistic following a rumour that the Securities and Exchange Commission might extend the deadline for listed company directors to comply with the...Full story
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday approved a guideline revising the time for initial public offering quota facility for the small-scale investors affected by the market crash.Full story
The Philippines’ budget deficit soared in May, the government said Tuesday, but a senior economic official insisted there was still room to pursue higher spending to sustain economic growth.Full story
The euro eased in Asian trade on Tuesday as currency markets digested a list of bad news for the eurozone while also harbouring doubts about a European Union summit this week.Full story
Syed Nurul Arefeen, one of the sponsors/directors of the company, has expressed his intention to sell 6,00,000 shares out of his total holding of 1,37,60,305 shares of the company at prevailing market price through...Full story
Oil prices turned lower in Asia Tuesday after 28 Spanish banks were downgraded and Cyprus asked for a bailout, analysts said, days ahead of a closely-watched European summit.Full story
Global private equity funds, which poured tens of billions of dollars into India investments when the economy and currency were flying high a few years ago, may be stuck with those holdings much longer than planned...Full story
Finance chiefs of the eurozone’s four biggest economies were to hold last-minute talks in Paris on Tuesday evening to try to narrow differences on the currency area’s future after Cyprus became the fifth member to request a bailout.Full story
Japan’s banking minister said Tuesday that Tokyo might usher in tighter insider trading laws amid a widening criminal probe into the practice, which is commonplace in the nation’s finance sector.Full story
Coca-Cola and its local bottlers said Tuesday they intended to invest $5 billion in India by 2020 — $3 billion more than originally planned — after posting major growth there earlier this year.Full story