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TT-Clean: 77.1 | TK BC-Selling: 78.1
TK OD-Sight: 76.88 TK | TC-Selling: 78.1 TK

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TT-Clean: 77.1 | TK BC-Selling: 78.1
TK OD-Sight: 76.88 TK | TC-Selling: 78.1 TK

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TT-Clean: 77.1 | TK BC-Selling: 78.1
TK OD-Sight: 76.88 TK | TC-Selling: 78.1 TK

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Issue 82, April 22, 2018

Money Market

Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change
Average Call Money Rate 4.28%
(Apr 19 ’18)
4.53%
(Apr 12 ’18)
0.25%
Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 4,691.20
( Apr 19 ’18)
7,836.20
(Apr 12 ’18)
40.14%
Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 5.18%
(Feb ’17)
5.01%
(Jan’17)
0.17%
Weighted Average Lending Rate 9.55%
(Feb ’17)
9.42%
(Jan ’17)
0.13%
Spread 4.37%
(Feb’17)
4.41%
(Jan ’17)
0.04%
YoY Private Sector Credit Growth 18.49%
(Feb ‘18)
18.36%
(Jan ‘17)
0.13%
Classified Loan % Total Outstanding 9.31%
(Dec’17)
9.23%
(Dec’16)
0.08%

Major Local Economic Indices

GDP Growth Rate 7.65%
(FY ’17)
7.28%
(FY ’16)
0.37%
Inflation (12 Months Average) 5.82%
(Mar ’18)
5.41%
(Feb ’18)
0.41%
Export 3,054.50
(Mar ’18)
3,097.33
(Mar ’17)
1.38%
Import (C&F) 5,019.10
(Feb ’18)
3,760.90
(Feb ’17)
33.45%
Foreign Remittance 1,300.46
(Mar ’18)
1,077.52
(Mar ’17)
20.69%
FX Reserve 33,217.25
(Apr 11 ’18)
32,414.89
(Apr 11 ‘17)
2.48%

Figures are expressed in Million US$ unless otherwise mentioned

Capital Market

Local DSEX 5,843.46
(Apr 19 ‘18)
5,813.14
(Apr 12 ‘18)
0.52%
CSCX 10,885.11
(Apr 19 ‘18)
10,837.15
(Apr 12 ‘18)
0.44%
CASPI 18,009.24
(Apr 19 ‘18)
17,934.10
(Apr 12 ‘18)
0.42%
Global Nikkei 225 22,177.41
(Apr 20 ‘18)
21,571.31
(Apr 13 ’18)
2.81%
Dow Jones Industrial Average 24,463.22
(Apr 20 ‘18)
23,927.87
(Apr 13 ’18)
2.24%
FTSE 100 7,361.56
(Apr 20 ‘18)
7,171.66
(Apr 13 ’18)
2.65%

Major Global Economic Indices

Type Country Inflation4 GDP Growth Rate1 Unemployment Rate1
G8 United States 2.40% 2.60% 4.10% 4
Great Britain 2.50% 1.40% 4.20% 3
Euro Zone 1.30% 2.70% 8.50% 3
Major
Trade
Partners
China 2.10% 6.80% 3.90%
India 4.28% 7.20% 6.23% 4
Germany 1.60% 2.90% 3.50% 3
Singapore 0.50% 4.30% 4 2.10%

1-Dec’17;2-Jan’18; 3-Feb’18; 4-Mar’18

Commodity Market

Crude Oil (Brent) [USD/bbl] 74.06 72.58 2.04%
Gold Spot (USD/t oz.) 1,336.36 1,346.20 0.73%
Wheat (CBOT) [USD/bu] 477.25 472.25 1.06%
Soyabean Oil (CBOT) [USD/lb] 31.56 31.75 0.60%

* Current Period refers to April 20, 2018 & Earlier Period Refers to April 13, 2018

Exchange Rates

EUR-USD Latest EUR to USD exchange rate was 1.2288. Previous week’s rate was 1.2331, change -0.35%.
GBP-USD Latest GBP to USD exchange rate 1.4000. Previous week’s rate was 1.4238, change -1.67%
USD-JPY Current USD-JPY exchange rate is 107.6600. Previous week’s closing price was 107.3500, change +0.29%
USD-AUD Current AUD to USD exchange rate 0.7672. Previous week’s rate was 0.7764, change -1.18%.

Banking News in Dailies

Banking News in Capital Market

  • Board of Directors’ meeting: Adjacent Banks’ Board of Directors’ meeting for considering audited financial statements of
    2017 will be held in the following dates.

    EBL April 22
    TBL April 24
    FSIBL, SJIBL, EXIM, IBBL April 25
    SIBL, AB, JBL April 26
    SEBL April 28
  • ISLAMIBANK: Professor Md. Nazmul Hassan, Ph. D has been elected as the Chairman of the Company.
  • MTB: The BoD has recommended 12.50% stock dividend for the year 2017.
  • ONEBANKLTD: The BoD has recommended 15% cash and 5% stock dividend for the year 2017.

Week in History

    • April 15, 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
    • April 16, 2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
    • April 17, 2014 – NASA’s Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
    • April 18, 2018 – King of Swaziland announced to change his country’s name to eSwatini
    • April 19, 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961
    • April 20, 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
    • April 21, 1989 – In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang

Disclaimer: This Document has been prepared and issued by R&D, DBL on the basis of the public information available in the market, sources of data believed to be reliable. All reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the facts & information stated in the Document are accurate as on the date mentioned herein.