Money Market Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change Average Call Money Rate 3.29% (Aug 14 ’18) 1.87% (Aug 09 ’18) 1.42% Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 10,307.05 (Aug 14 ’18) 8,070.00 (Aug 09 ’18) 10.22% Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 5.5% (June ’18) 5.6% (May ’18) 0.01% Weighted Average Lending

Stock profit booking continues A tendency to take out profits continued to prevail in the stock market yesterday as had been in the last couple of days. The DSEX, the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s (DSE) benchmark index, dropped 48.71 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 5,801.72 yesterday. Institutional investors are also

BB move fails to cool down dollar The US dollar continues to appreciate against Bangladeshi currency taka despite the injection of a vast quantity of greenbacks into the market by the Bangladesh Bank as it endeavours to keep the exchange rate stable. Yesterday, the inter-bank exchange rate of the US

BB sells $25m to two banks as demand grows The central bank sold $25 million more to two commercial banks directly on Tuesday to meet the growing demand for the greenback in the market, officials said. “Today, we’ve sold the US currency to the banks at market rate to settle

Mutual Trust Bank arranges preference shares for Star Ceramics The closing ceremony of Issuance of Redeemable Cumulative Preference Shares under syndication of BDT 935.0 million for Star Ceramics Limited was held at a city hotel recently. Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) is the Lead Arranger and Agent & MTB Capital