Wall Street closed out the week with more milestones Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 28,000 for the first time and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs. Health care and technology stocks powered most of the broad rally, which helped drive the S&P 500 to its sixth straight weekly gain. The Dow extended its streak of ...
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Smartwatches: Too clever by half?
If you love gadgets and are tech savvy enough to feel the need to stay up to date at all times, then you are already considering smartwatches. Even traditional watch companies like Fossil are beginning to manufacture these, so why should you stay back from putting one on your wrist? But with any hefty purchase, a little pros and cons ...
Read More »Two-day Bangladesh Festival opens in London Saturday
The two-day (Nov 16-17) annual Bangladesh Festival, London begins at the Bethnal Green Library here on Saturday. The annual festival was put in place in 2010 by Shommilito Sangskritik Parishad, UK, in partnership with Bangla Academy, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Bangladesh High Commission, London, and London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The festival is managed by CEN, a creative sector ...
Read More »Alibaba backs Hong Kong’s ‘bright’ future with huge listing
Alibaba chief executive Daniel Zhang has praised Hong Kong’s “bright” future as the Chinese e-commerce giant prepares to list in the embattled financial hub, reports Hong Kong. The firm, which is already traded in the US, hopes to raise up to $13.4bn (£10.4bn) in its secondary listing.That would make it the biggest share sale this year, according to Dealogic. The ...
Read More »NBR awards 142 tax card winners
Dhaka, Nov 14 : A total of 142 national-level tax card winners, including 75 individuals, 57 companies and 10 under other categories have been awarded by National Board of Revenue (NBR). The state revenue collection agency also awarded 521 top district-level taxpayers on the basis of highest or long-term tax payment. Of them, 374 were selected on the basis of ...
Read More »Second satellite to be a hybrid, cost less: Shahjahan Mahmood
Chairman of Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited (BCSCL) Dr Shahjahan Mahmood on Thursday said that a consultant will be appointed within the next 3-4 weeks for launching the country’s second satellite, following in the footsteps of Bangabandhu -1. He informed this at a views-exchange meeting with the Telecom Reporters Network Bangladesh (TRNB) at BCSCL office in the capital. “We have ...
Read More »Facebook removes 3.2 billion fake accounts
Facebook says it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six months. Nearly all of the bogus accounts were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network, so they are not counted in the user figures the company reports regularly, reports ...
Read More »Asian stocks sink after Trump threatens more China tariffs
Asian stocks sank Wednesday after President Donald Trump threatened more tariff hikes on Chinese imports if talks aimed at ending a trade war fail to produce an interim agreement. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia all declined. Trump said Tuesday agreement on the “Phase 1” deal announced last month “could happen soon.” But he warned he ...
Read More »Mini Mercury skips across sun’s vast glare in rare transit
Photo: Mercury, center left, passes between Earth and the sun, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, as seen from Lutherville-Timonium. Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and the sun on ...
Read More »First-ever Bangladeshi bond debuts on London Stock Exchange
The first-ever Bangladeshi Taka-denominated bond titled “Bangla Bond” amounting equivalent to $10 million has been listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Monday. The Bangla Bond was listed on the LSE by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private sector arm of World Bank, at a ring bell ceremony at 8:00 am London time, said a press release of ...
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