Global Business | The Business Standard

Kamal Quadir, chief executive officer of bKash, has received the “Best E-cash/money and CSR award” for his exceptional contribution to the welfare of people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Courtesy

Global Business and CSR Awards conferred to eminent figures

The Bangladesh-American Chamber of Commerce USA (Bangladesh Chapter) organised the Global Business and CSR Awards on Saturday

The World Bank’s Doing Business index has been both conceptually and operationally suspect since its inception in 2003. Photo: Project Syndicate

Stop doing business

With costs sinking for both oil and renewables, only one of them is still offering investors a healthy return on equity. Photo: Collected

The new math for investors in a world of cheap energy

Photo: Collected

Many businesses cautious about restarting economy amid virus

Nahee Aluminum Composite Panel Limited’s net profit has dropped 28.05% due to the pandemic Photo: Collected

Coronavirus chronicle

The economic remedies for the coronavirus

Perfume Industry: Banking on Agarwood

Perfume Industry: Banking on Agarwood

FILE PHOTO: People wearing masks shop at a supermarket on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, following the outbreak of a new coronavirus, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 26, 2020. cnsphoto via REUTERS/File Photo

Market themes for the week ahead

Cattle are seen near burnt trees in Jamanxim National Forest, in the Amazon near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil September 10, 2019/ Reuters

Top businesses lack commitment to prevent supply-chain deforestation

Passengers wearing masks walk outside the Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 2, 2020. Photo: Reuters

Chinese markets plunge as rising virus death toll fuels fears for global growth

A woman points to an electronic board showing stock prices as she poses in front of the board after the New Year opening ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), held to wish for the success of Japan's stock market, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Global Markets: China lifts Asian shares; oil up on drawdowns, Mideast tensions

Visitors look at a stock quotation board at Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Japan, October 11, 2018/ Reuters

Emerging market stocks were laggards in the past decade

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, June 24, 2019/ Reuters

The best year financial markets have ever had?

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, October 18, 2019/ Reuters

Sustainable investors face squeeze as larger firms move in