A three-day ‘Yellow Pages International Expo on Machineries’ began in the capital on Thursday with a view to expanding the market of machineries for boosting the country’s industrial sector, says a press release.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque formally inaugurated the exhibition at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).
Senior Vice-President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Kamrul Islam, Managing Director of Yellow Pages Private Limited AIM Hasanul Mujib and Director of the ACI Motors Engr Hasib Uddin, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Speaking as the chief guest, Mozammel said Bangladesh will progress in the ease of doing business soon as the government has taken various initiatives to improve the country’s business environment by removing all the bureaucratic complexities.
More than 100 industrial machineries suppliers, including renewable energy, generator, sub-station, construction and housing, plastic, elevator and Ready-Made-Garment (RMG), are taking part in the exhibition.
The exposition remains open for all from 10 am to 8 pm every day.
Stocks close week down, transactions decline
Economic Reporter
Stocks closed the week down on Thursday with falling trends of all major price indices at Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges as the daily transactions declined amid volatility in large-cap securities.
During the week, the daily average trade value declined by over 27 percent to Taka 374.63 crore and the average trade volume fell by 29 percent to 10.19 crore shares.
The broader DSEX of the DSE finished the week with 143.22 points down at 6,050.20.
The blue-chip DS30 and Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 60.67 points down at 2,170.25 and with 29.92 points down at 1,375.52 respectively.
Out of the 339 issues traded on DSE, 55 gained against 277 losing issues.
The top five gainers of the week were Apex Spinning and Knitting Mills, CVO Petrochemical Refinery, Renwick Jajneswar and Co (Bd), Ambee Pharma and Apex Foods.
