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The Bank of England (BoE), the central bank of the country, on Wednesday cut its main interest rate from 0.75 per cent to 0.25 per cent as part of a package of measures to cushion the impact of COVID-19.

The rate of the implementation of the annual development programme in the eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year 2019-2020 stood at a three-year low as the government agencies could execute only 37.09 per cent or Tk 79,786 crore of the ADP in the period.

A government body has suggested providing special financial incentives to the coronavirus-affected sectors to help them offset the impacts.

Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh in association with 11 of its partner organisations is organising a day-long conference titled ‘VNR 2020 of Bangladesh: Positioning Non-State Actors’, on March 11 in Dhaka.

Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has urged the banks to start their process to invest in the stock market as soon as possible.

Asian stock markets traded cautiously on Tuesday as investors came to terms with “Black Monday”.

SINGAPORE, March 10, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Oil prices surged more than six percent in Asian trade Tuesday following heavy losses a day earlier after top exporter Saudi Arabia began a price war with Russia.

Walton Hi-Tech Industries is flying high, so it is reasonable to assume there would be a clamour for a slice of the home grown electronics giant. 

A top regulatory official on Monday said an “unholy game” is going on in the capital market involving issuers, issue managers, audit firms, and the company management to cheat the public and state.

Chinese shares are turning out to be an unconventional safe haven of sorts. Following the U.S. Federal Reserve’s emergency interest rate cut, U.S. equities fell while gold jumped, suggesting many investors are sceptical about the utility of looser money. The benchmark stock index in China, however, has improved by a …