DHAKA: The US economy added 151,000 jobs in January, helping to push the country’s unemployment rate down to 4.9%.The number was lower than expected and is a sharp slowdown from December, when 292,000 jobs were added, reports the BBC.Job losses in transport and education weighed on the

DHAKA: Royal Dutch Shell shares rose after it confirmed it would cut 10,000 jobs and a sharp fall in annual profits.Shell extended gains to 7% as it said it made $1.8bn for the fourth quarter, compared with a $4.2bn profit for the same period the year before, reports the BBC.Full-year

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall in its price indices on Thursday (February 4), the last trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 2.21 points only to stand at 4571.11 at the close of day’s trading.Trade deals stood at 94334 with volume of

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses is underway showing mixed trend in share-price indices on Thursday, the last trading day of the week.DSEX, the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed over 4.39 points to stand at 4568.93 at 11:49am.Trade deals stood at 28970 with

DHAKA: Visiting Iranian business delegates on Wednesday expressed their eagerness to work together with Bashundhara Group, the country’s leading business conglomerate, in the thriving energy sector.They assured Bashundhara Group of helping construct an oil refinery in Bangladesh.The

DHAKA: The oil-rich Middle Eastern country Qatar is interested to recruit 3-lakh Bangladeshi manpower within two years.Salesmen, nurses, engineers and office employees will be given preference in the recruitment.A joint-working group meeting in this regard is expected to be held in Dhaka

FROM PARLIAMENT: Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed remarked that the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) would not be effective till the restoration of Generalized System of Preference (GSP) from the United States.The minister came up with this observation in reply to

DHAKA: After three days of positive trend, trading in the country’s two bourses ended negatively on Wednesday, the fourth trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), decreased 17.76 points or 0.38 percent than Tuesday, to stand at 4573.33 points at the end

DHAKA: Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith categorically said banking services are yet to reach the doorsteps of the common people despite having 56 banks in the country.He made this assertion at inaugural ceremony of Janata Bank’s annual conference at a hotel in the capital on

DHAKA: USA Export-Import Bank chairman and president Fred P Hochberg arrived in Dhaka on a two-day visit on Wednesday (February 3).He will engage in discussions with the officials of Bangladesh government and business leaders intended to expand commercial interaction between the USA and

DHAKA: The leading US share index plunged 295 points on Tuesday with oil companies and banks falling sharply.The Dow Jones fell 1.8% to 16154.02. The S&P 500 lost 1.9% to close at 1,903.05 and the Nasdaq shed 2.2% to 4,516.95.The biggest faller on the Dow Jones index was Goldman Sachs,

DHAKA: Worries over falling oil prices were weighing on investor sentiment in Asia for a second day on Wednesday.The benchmark Nikkei 225 tumbled more than 3.5% to 17,106.63 following falls on Wall Street.In Hong Kong, shares were down by a similar amount in early trade, with the Hang

DHAKA: Trading in the country’s two bourses are underway showing positive trends on Wednesday, the fourth trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose over 5.65 points or 0.12 percent than Tuesday to stand at 4596.75 at 11:57am.Trade deals stood at

DHAKA: British energy giant BP on Feb. 2 posted the company's biggest loss in at least 20 years, ravaged by tumbling oil prices, and axed another 3,000 jobs.BP suffered a loss after taxation of $6.48 billion last year, compared with a net profit of $3.78 billion in 2014, it said in a

DHAKA: Stocks in Asia were trading largely lower on Tuesday following a lackluster lead from the US overnight and as oil prices fell again.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 closed down 0.64% at 17,750.68 points.The benchmark index closed up nearly 2% on Monday, its highest close since early January,

DHAKA: Trading in the country’s two bourses ended positively on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 30.67 points or 0.67 percent than Monday to stand at 4591.09 at closing.Trade deals stood at 119299 with transaction at Tk

DHAKA: Trading in the country’s two bourses showing positive in share-price indices on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 41.18 points or 0.90 percent than Sunday to stand at 4601.60 at 12.17pm.Trade deals stood at 51314

DHAKA: The UK’s biggest bank, HSBC, plans to impose a global freeze on pay and hiring in 2016.Sources have said, reports the BBC.An email was sent to staff on Friday outlining the measures as part of the bank’s cost-cutting drive.A source confirmed the email’s contents to the BBC

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses ended on positive in share-price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 19.53 points than Sunday to stand at 4560.42.Trade deals stood at 100178 with transaction at Tk

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses is underway showing gain in share-price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 18.23 points to stand at 4559.12 at 11:37am.Trade deals stood at 31762 with transaction at Tk