Money Market
| Parameters | Current Period | Earlier Period | Change |
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| Average Call Money Rate | 3.56% (Mar 02 ’17) | 3.53% (Feb 23 ’17) | 0.03% |
| Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) | 6,744.00 (Mar 02 ’17) | 6,706.00 (Feb 23 ’17) | 0.57% |
Prices | Weighted Average Deposit Rate | 5.13% (Jan ’17) | 5.22% (Dec ’16) | 0.09% |
Weighted Average Lending Rate | 9.85% (Jan ’16) | 9.93% (Dec ’16) | 0.08% |
Spread | 4.72% (Jan ’16) | 4.71% (Dec ’16) | 0.01% |
| YoY Private Sector Credit Growth | 15.61% (Jan ‘16) | 15.55% (Dec ‘16) | 0.06% |
| Classified Loan % Total Outstanding | 9.23% (Dec ’16) | 10.34% (Sep ’16) | 1.11% |
Major Local Economic Indices
GDP Growth Rate | 7.11% (FY ’16) | 6.55% (FY ’15) | 0.56% |
Inflation (12 Months Average) | 5.44% (Jan ’17) | 5.52% (Dec ’16) | 0.08% |
Export | 3,312.04 (Jan ’17) | 3,185.63 (Jan ’16) | 3.97% |
Import (C&F) | 3,994.10 (Dec ’16) | 3,898.30 (Dec ’15) | 2.46% |
Foreign Remittance | 936.20 (Feb ’17) | 1,136.27 (Feb ’16) | 17.61% |
FX Reserve | 32,567.98 (Mar 01 ’17) | 28,060.48 (Mar 01 ’16) | 16.06% |
Figures are expressed in Million US$ unless otherwise mentioned
Capital Market
Local | DSEX | 5,586.74 (Mar 02 ’17) | 5,625.33 (Feb 23 ’17) | 0.69% |
CSCX | 10,492.48 (Mar 02 ’17) | 10,564.16 (Feb 23 ’17) | 0.68% |
CASPI | 17,301.95 (Mar 02 ’17) | 17,418.61 (Feb 23 ’17) | 0.67% |
Global | Nikkei 225 | 19,469.17 (Mar 03 ’17) | 19,283.54 (Feb 24 ’17) | 0.96% |
Dow Jones Industrial Average | 21,005.71 (Mar 03 ’17) | 20,821.76 (Feb 24 ’17) | 0.88% |
FTSE 100 | 7,374.26 (Mar 03 ’17) | 7,243.70 (Feb 24 ’17) | 1.80% |
Major Global Economic Indices
Type | Country | Inflation4 | GDP Growth Rate3 | Unemployment Rate3 |
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G8 | United States | 2.50% | 1.90% | 4.80%4 |
Great Britain | 1.80% | 2.00% | 4.80% |
Euro Zone | 2.00%1 | 1.70% | 9.60%4 |
Major Trade Partners | China | 2.50% | 6.80% | 4.02% |
India | 3.17% | 7.00% | 4.82%1 |
Germany | 2.20%1 | 1.20% | 3.80%4 |
Singapore | 0.60% | 2.90% | 2.20% |
1– Feb ‘17; 2-Dec ’16; 3-Nov ’16, 4-Jan ‘17
Commodity Market
Crude Oil (Brent) [USD/bbl] | 55.9 | 55.99 | 0.16% |
Gold Spot (USD/t oz.) | 1,234.81 | 1,257.19 | 1.78% |
Wheat (CBOT) [USD/bu] | 453.5 | 448.00 | 1.23% |
Soyabean Oil (CBOT) [USD/lb] | 34.38 | 32.67 | 5.23% |
* Current Period refers to Mar 03, ‘17 & Earlier Period Refers to Feb 24, ’17
Exchange Rates
EUR-USD | Latest EUR to USD exchange rate was 1.0622. Previous week’s rate was 1.0563, change +0.599%. |
GBP-USD | Latest GBP to US D exchange rate 1.2291. Previous week’s rate was 1.2462,change -1.372%. |
USD-JPY | Current USD-JPY exchange rate is 114.04. Previous week’s closing price was 112.12, change +1.712%. |
USD-AUD | Current AUD to USD exchange rate 0.7596. Previous week’s rate was 0.7676, change -1.042%. |
Banks News in Capital Market
- PUBALIBANK: As per Regulation 19(1) of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (Listing) Regulations, 2015, the Company has informed that a meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on March 12, 2017 at 4:00 PM to consider, among others,audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended on December 31,2016.
- SIBL: Fountain Private Ltd., one of the Corporate Sponsors & Directors of the Company, has expressed its intention to buy 1,46,00,000 shares of the Company at prevailing market price (in the Block Market) through Stock Exchange within next 30 working days
- SIBL: Prof. Dr. M. A. Mannan, one of the Sponsors of the Company, has further reported that he has completed his sale of 5,00,000 shares of the Company at prevailing market price through Stock Exchange, as announced earlie
Week in History
- March 4, 1681 – King Charles II of England granted a huge tract of land in the New World to William Penn to settle an outstanding debt. The area later became Pennsylvania.
- March 4, 1830 – Former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts. He was the first ex-president ever to return to the House and served eight consecutive terms
- March 3, 1847 – Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell and his father were involved in teaching deaf persons to speak. Bell developed an interest in the vibrating membrane as a method of electrically transmitting sounds
- March 4, 1933 – Newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office and delivered his first inaugural address attempting to restore public confidence during the Great Depression, stating, “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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