Money Market Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change Average Call Money Rate 3.80% (Nov 15 ’17) 3.87% (Nov 08 ’17) 0.07% Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 5,686.00 (Nov 15 ’17) 5,662.00 (Nov 08 ’17) 0.42% Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 4.90% (Sep ’17) 4.93% (Aug ’17) 0.03% Weighted Average Lending

Banks’ interest rate spread falling A declining trend of interest rate spread in the country’s banking sector continued until November, as the commercial banks slashed their interest rates more on lending than on deposits, officials said. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates offered by the banks came

Money Market Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change Average Call Money Rate 3.92% (Jan 31 ’18) 3.86% (Jan 24 ’18) 0.06 Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 6,501.75 (Jan 31 ’18) 5,931.00 (Jan 24 ’18) 9.62% Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 4.90% (Nov ’17) 4.89% (Oct ’17) 0.01% Weighted Average Lending

Apparel buying houses asked to get registered with DoT The government has recently directed all the buying houses in the garment and textile sector in Bangladesh to get registered with the Department of Textiles to run business in the Country. In a gazette notification issued on May 28, the textiles

Export earnings hit record $3.8b in May Bangladesh’s exports fetched $3.81 billion in May this year, which was the single-month highest in the country’s history riding on the good performance of readymade garment products. Earlier, the monthly highest earnings were recorded in October last year with the exports worth $3.71