The Bangladesh Bank is set to announce its monetary policy statement for the first half (July鈥揇ecember) of the 2025鈥�26 fiscal year, reaffirming its tight monetary stance aimed at bringing down inflation to 6.5 per cent by June 2026...
Despite a record Boro harvest, rice prices in Bangladesh remain unusually high, raising questions about market manipulation amid weak monitoring as well as regulation...
The appointment of the national pay commission by the interim government to fix pay hikes for the public servants over the next six months has surprised economists amid chronic revenue shortfalls, growing government borrowings, and elevated inflation.
US consumer inflation picked up in line with analyst expectations last month, government data showed Tuesday, as policymakers try to gauge how president Donald Trump鈥檚 ever-growing list of tariffs is affecting the economy...
Stock markets mostly gained and the dollar eased Tuesday ahead of key US inflation data, and after Chinese economic growth data met expectations...
Net sales of National Savings Certificates continued to decline in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, driven by prolonged inflation, shifting investor preferences, and a change in government borrowing priorities...
Malaysia鈥檚 central bank cut on Wednesday its interest rate by 25 basis points, its first reduction in five years, as a 鈥榩re-emptive measure鈥� to sustain growth amid moderate inflation...
The general inflation eased further and dropped from the 9 per cent mark to 8.48 per cent in June because of falling prices of food items...
Eurozone inflation accelerated slightly to 2.0 per cent in June, in line with analyst forecasts and the European Central Bank鈥檚 target, official data showed on Tuesday...
The net sales of National Savings Certificates continued to decline in the first 10 months of the current financial year due mainly to the impact of prolonged inflation, changing investor behaviour, and shifting government priorities....
US consumer inflation ticked up in May, in line with analyst expectations, government data showed Wednesday as president Donald Trump鈥檚 sweeping tariffs began to ripple through the world鈥檚 biggest economy...
Businesses and experts have said that the proposed national budget for the 2025-26 financial year was overly ambitious, particularly regarding revenue targets, private investment, inflation control and GDP growth...
The interim government has targeted to bring down inflation to 6.5 per cent in the 2025鈥�26 financial year despite the current inflation level remaining above 9 per cent.
Japanese inflation spiked to a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on the central bank as it mulls more interest rate hikes amid the Trump administration鈥檚 trade war.
PERSISTENT food inflation, largely caused by a fragmented, inefficient market system, has placed millions of fixed- and low-income people in a precarious situation. Market experts, the consumers鈥� association and independent studies have for long pointed out the issue. Now, the Bangladesh Bank says that an inefficient market system, characterised by supply chain...
The overall inflation rate eased for a fifth straight month in April, but it still remained high.
The overall rate of inflation remained almost unchanged as it persisted over 9 per cent in March, while the gross domestic product growth bounced back in the second quarter of the current financial year of 2024鈥�25...
The overall rate of inflation remained almost unchanged as it sustained over 9 per cent in March...
The proportion of poor households has increased in the country against the backdrop of persistent inflationary pressures along with the natural and human-made factors, according to a study.
AMID growing income inequality, high unemployment rates and unprecedented food inflation, economists have rightly pointed out that the budget for the next financial year should prioritise the economic woes of the ordinary people. Economists in a pre-budget meeting with the finance adviser on March 16 urged the government to create an enabling investment...
The net sales of national savings certificates (NSCs) continued their downward trend in the first seven months of the current financial year, reflecting the impact of prolonged inflation and shifting investment preferences...
The country鈥檚 private sector businesses have urged for deferring Bangladesh鈥檚 LDC graduation for at least 2 to 3 years, considering the prevailing global and local economic challenges, including a shortage of energy, high inflation, high interest rates and complexities in obtaining credit from banks...
The rate of the overall inflation eased further to 9.34 per cent in February with food prices dropping both in rural and urban areas to 11 months low.
鈥楾he most important problem of the country's economy is inflation, and that is chronic inflation, which has plagued our economy for years,鈥� the economy minister added.
The Japanese government said on Friday that it would release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests and panic buying over a 鈥榤egaquake鈥� warning nearly doubled prices over a year....
BRITISH economist Lionel Charles Robbins said in the 80s, 鈥業f the average inflation of a country exceeds 4.2 per cent, then there is no more economy in that country.鈥� Inflation was 4.6 per cent in the last fiscal year of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party coalition government. Inflation started increasing after the authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina came to power...
The overall economy has been improving for the past six months, but worker unrests, inflation and fragile banking sector still pose risks, according to a Finance Division report released on Sunday...
Wall Street stocks slumped to close the week Friday as investors gird for fresh US tariffs and as employment and other data fanned inflation fears...
Turkey鈥檚 central bank on Friday increased its year-end inflation forecast to 24 per cent from 21 per cent.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that they would be able to bring down inflation within the next three months...