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The United States, Mexico and Canada signed a deal Tuesday to finalise their new trade agreement, paving the way to ratification after more than two years of arduous negotiations. However, the impeachment trial of president Donald Trump in the US Senate would likely delay Congressional ratification of the agreement until …

DSEX lost 196 points in last four consecutive days The broad index of the country’s prime bourse keeps falling, hitting a 41-month low as spooked investors have continued clearing off their stocks out of a lack of confidence.

Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as investors grow nervous at the lack of news on China-US trade talks, with Washington yet to cancel tariffs on a swathe of Chinese goods planned for the weekend.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today urged all concerned including the business community to engage themselves more in paying taxes including VAT and thus motivate others.

Al-Arafah Islami Bank in association with Dmoney Bangladesh yesterday launched an “Islamic Wallet”, which it terms as the country’s first Shariah- and mobile phone-based enabler of digital financial services.

Bangladesh will request for extended support from the World Bank (WB) in its upcoming three-year aid package for facilitating the country’s growing demand for development investment, officials said on Monday.

The revenue board has opened three more customs ports for import and export of goods from Nepal and Bhutan using Indian territory.

A panel of 53 professional forecasters anticipate that US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth will slow to 1.8 per cent in 2020, according to a new survey from the NABE released Monday.

Eligible electronic taxpayer identification number (e-TIN) holders would be forced to submit their income tax return after January 15.

Bangladesh has ranked 103rd out of 152 countries in the global E-commerce Index 2019, prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).