Money Market
| Parameters | Current Period | Earlier Period | Change |
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| Average Call Money Rate | 4.28% (Apr 19 ’18) | 4.53% (Apr 12 ’18) | 0.25% |
| Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) | 4,691.20 ( Apr 19 ’18) | 7,836.20 (Apr 12 ’18) | 40.14% |
Prices | Weighted Average Deposit Rate | 5.18% (Feb ’17) | 5.01% (Jan’17) | 0.17% |
Weighted Average Lending Rate | 9.55% (Feb ’17) | 9.42% (Jan ’17) | 0.13% |
Spread | 4.37% (Feb’17) | 4.41% (Jan ’17) | 0.04% |
| YoY Private Sector Credit Growth | 18.49% (Feb ‘18) | 18.36% (Jan ‘17) | 0.13% |
| Classified Loan % Total Outstanding | 9.31% (Dec’17) | 9.23% (Dec’16) | 0.08% |
Major Local Economic Indices
GDP Growth Rate | 7.65% (FY ’17) | 7.28% (FY ’16) | 0.37% |
Inflation (12 Months Average) | 5.82% (Mar ’18) | 5.41% (Feb ’18) | 0.41% |
Export | 3,054.50 (Mar ’18) | 3,097.33 (Mar ’17) | 1.38% |
Import (C&F) | 5,019.10 (Feb ’18) | 3,760.90 (Feb ’17) | 33.45% |
Foreign Remittance | 1,300.46 (Mar ’18) | 1,077.52 (Mar ’17) | 20.69% |
FX Reserve | 33,217.25 (Apr 11 ’18) | 32,414.89 (Apr 11 ‘17) | 2.48% |
Figures are expressed in Million US$ unless otherwise mentioned
Capital Market
Local | DSEX | 5,843.46 (Apr 19 ‘18) | 5,813.14 (Apr 12 ‘18) | 0.52% |
CSCX | 10,885.11 (Apr 19 ‘18) | 10,837.15 (Apr 12 ‘18) | 0.44% |
CASPI | 18,009.24 (Apr 19 ‘18) | 17,934.10 (Apr 12 ‘18) | 0.42% |
Global | Nikkei 225 | 22,177.41 (Apr 20 ‘18) | 21,571.31 (Apr 13 ’18) | 2.81% |
Dow Jones Industrial Average | 24,463.22 (Apr 20 ‘18) | 23,927.87 (Apr 13 ’18) | 2.24% |
FTSE 100 | 7,361.56 (Apr 20 ‘18) | 7,171.66 (Apr 13 ’18) | 2.65% |
Major Global Economic Indices
Type | Country | Inflation4 | GDP Growth Rate1 | Unemployment Rate1 |
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G8 | United States | 2.40% | 2.60% | 4.10% 4 |
Great Britain | 2.50% | 1.40% | 4.20% 3 |
Euro Zone | 1.30% | 2.70% | 8.50% 3 |
Major Trade Partners | China | 2.10% | 6.80% | 3.90% |
India | 4.28% | 7.20% | 6.23% 4 |
Germany | 1.60% | 2.90% | 3.50% 3 |
Singapore | 0.50% | 4.30% 4 | 2.10% |
1-Dec’17;2-Jan’18; 3-Feb’18; 4-Mar’18
Commodity Market
Crude Oil (Brent) [USD/bbl] | 74.06 | 72.58 | 2.04% |
Gold Spot (USD/t oz.) | 1,336.36 | 1,346.20 | 0.73% |
Wheat (CBOT) [USD/bu] | 477.25 | 472.25 | 1.06% |
Soyabean Oil (CBOT) [USD/lb] | 31.56 | 31.75 | 0.60% |
* Current Period refers to April 20, 2018 & Earlier Period Refers to April 13, 2018
Exchange Rates
EUR-USD | Latest EUR to USD exchange rate was 1.2288. Previous week’s rate was 1.2331, change -0.35%. |
GBP-USD | Latest GBP to USD exchange rate 1.4000. Previous week’s rate was 1.4238, change -1.67% |
USD-JPY | Current USD-JPY exchange rate is 107.6600. Previous week’s closing price was 107.3500, change +0.29% |
USD-AUD | Current AUD to USD exchange rate 0.7672. Previous week’s rate was 0.7764, change -1.18%. |
Banking News in Capital Market
- Board of Directors’ meeting: Adjacent Banks’ Board of Directors’ meeting for considering audited financial statements of
2017 will be held in the following dates.EBL | April 22 |
TBL | April 24 |
FSIBL, SJIBL, EXIM, IBBL | April 25 |
SIBL, AB, JBL | April 26 |
SEBL | April 28 |
- ISLAMIBANK: Professor Md. Nazmul Hassan, Ph. D has been elected as the Chairman of the Company.
- MTB: The BoD has recommended 12.50% stock dividend for the year 2017.
- ONEBANKLTD: The BoD has recommended 15% cash and 5% stock dividend for the year 2017.
Week in History
- April 15, 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
- April 16, 2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
- April 17, 2014 – NASA’s Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
- April 18, 2018 – King of Swaziland announced to change his country’s name to eSwatini
- April 19, 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961
- April 20, 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- April 21, 1989 – In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang
Disclaimer: This Document has been prepared and issued by R&D, DBL on the basis of the public information available in the market, sources of data believed to be reliable. All reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the facts & information stated in the Document are accurate as on the date mentioned herein.