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MNA Business Report: Stocks witnessed an upward trend in early trading on Sunday as investors are showing a buying spree on sector-wise issues despite facing troubles due to the slow Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) website. The DSE website has remained slow for the last three consecutive sessions due to its maintenance and upgradation work. Investors and stockbrokers alleged in the morning that they were unable to access information on time for the last couple of days as the new website of the DSE was “very slow to load”. Many investors complained that they do not see the share prices on ...

MNA Business Report: Daily trade turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) scaled Tk 12-billion mark on Thursday once again as investors put fresh stakes on stocks amid growing confidence in the market. Turnover, a crucial indicator of the market, stood at Tk 12.08 billion on the country’s premier bourse, climbing further by 7.86 per cent over previous day’s mark of Tk 11.20 billion. It happens to be the biggest single-day transaction in the last n weeks since June 28, when turnover totalled Tk 25.43 billion riding on huge block trade of GSK Bangladesh. Attuned to the rising turnover value, DSEX, ...

MNA Business Desk: Bangladesh has moved up eight spots to 168 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index 2020. The country’s ranking was 176 in the last year, according to a report by the World Bank Group. A total of 190 countries have been ranked in the global lender’s latest index. According to the World Bank Group, Bangladesh is among the 20 economies that have seen progress in at least three out of ten areas of the ease of doing business for the last year. The country made it bringing about three reforms during the past year, the ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka has improved as the least safe city in the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Safe Cities Index (SCI). This year it climbed to the fifth position from the third at the bottom of the SCI recorded in last year. The EIU prepared this index taking in view the indicators of digital, health, infrastructure and personal security. The index shows Dhaka ranking fourth, fourth, second and sixth least from the bottom in terms of the categories of security mentioned above. The four cities that rank below Dhaka on the index are Karachi, Yangon, Caracas, ...

MNA Business Desk: The key index of the premier bourse slumped below 5,000-mark in early trading on Monday after 31 months as investors mostly on selling spree, fearing further fall. Following the previous day’s steep fall, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened on negative note amid low trading activities. Within first 15 minutes of trading, the key index of the prime bourse fell 30 points while the CSE All Share Price Index (CASPI) of port city’s bourse lost 65 points at 10:45am. After 30 minutes of trading, the DSEX fell more than 72 points ...

MNA Business Desk: Bangladesh showed stable and qualitative improvement in major economic indicators last year, with leading 40 countries in the Inclusive Development Index (IDI) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Among 74 emerging economies, the country this year secured the 34th position in the IMF’s annual index, which reflects quality of economic performance in a particular country. In the index, Bangladesh also performed far better than India (ranked 62), Pakistan (ranked 52) and Sri Lanka (ranked 40). The index also includes 29 developed economies, headed by Norway. Iceland, Luxemburg, Switzerland and Denmark followed the Scandinavian state on the top ...

MNA Feature Desk: Bangladesh is now in the 15th position in global corruption perception index prepared by Transparency International (TI). Bangladesh was in 13th position last year. Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) published this report at a press conference at the MIDAS Centre in Dhaka. According to the report, Bangladesh stood 145th among 175 countries across the world based on corruption perception index (CPI) 2016 survey by TI. Bangladesh scored 26 points. Last year, Bangladesh ranked 13th most corrupt countries scoring 25 points among 168 countries. According to CPI 2016, Bangladesh is the second worst performer in South Asia, better than ...

MNA Business Desk: Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has restarted on Sunday downward as maximum of the stockholders were in selling mode, capturing share price fall in the days ahead. The price directories locked flat when the bourses saw small level of transactions by the cautious buyers. Stock market shut pre-Eid transaction on 30 June upward, upholding a sound rise for the fourth successive session. There were no share exchange at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges in the past nine days as the market stayed locked for Eid-ul-Fitr. DSE initiated the post-Eid period with sharp fall ...