Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), continued reverse direction as investors dumped their holdings amidst growing concern over…

Asian markets plunged yesterday, reversing an early rally fuelled by global stimulus pledges, including a more than $1 trillion package flagged by the…

Governments and central banks are injecting eye-popping sums and emergency policy remedies into the global economy as the coronavirus pandemic upends all normal life. Markets have crashed as world growth faces its biggest crisis since 2008, and have so far resisted the efforts to restore calm as the…

The United States and Britain led a multi-billion-dollar global fightback against economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus as the European Union shut…

Markets are falling back again and more companies are shutting production and laying off workers as the virus outbreak rips through the global economy.…

A ban on Malaysians leaving the country, imposed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, will deal a heavy blow to neighbouring Singapore, which relies on huge numbers of workers who commute from next door. Around 300,000 people usually cross the border every day to wealthier Singapore — about…

Japan’s imports from China almost halved last month from a year earlier to log the steepest fall since 1986 as the new coronavirus outbreak disrupted trade, official data showed yesterday. February imports from China, Japan’s biggest trade partner along with the United States, plunged 47.1…

German carmaker BMW said yesterday it would close European and South African factories accounting for half its output for a month, matching other car giants stricken by coronavirus containment measures. It also warned that profits this year would be significantly lower as a result of the crisis. “From…