Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto this week announced commodity export controls that set markets aflutter amid concerns over ‘resource nationalism’ in the world’s largest palm oil producer...
The prices of key essentials, including chicken, eggs, rice, sugar, and vegetables, remained high in Dhaka’s kitchen markets on Friday, alongside an ongoing shortage of edible oil.
Commodity ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell this week to its lowest level since the beginning of the war despite a brief US attempt to reopen the strategic waterway, according to data from marine analytics firm Kpler...
Prices of chicken, eggs, sugar and vegetables remained high on Friday, alongside a persistent shortage of edible oils, leaving consumers under continued pressure.
The fares of various road and water transports increased in different places across the country, including the capital, on Sunday along with the impact on kitchen markets after the government increased the prices of fuel oils by 15 to 16 per cent a day ago.
Sixty percent of commodity-bearing ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Middle East war have either come from Iran or were heading there, an AFP analysis of maritime data showed...
The war in the Middle East has pushed food commodity prices higher due to higher energy and fertiliser costs, the UN’s food agency said Friday...
Prices of key protein items — beef, mutton and chicken — increased, on average, by Tk 50 per kilogram in kitchen markets in the capital on Friday, ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr...
Commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir on Monday said that commodity prices and supply in the capital’s markets remained satisfactory during Ramadan, warning that action would be taken if any irregularities are found...
Despite a sharp decline in the commodity prices on the international market after a Ukraine war-induced surge, consumers in Bangladesh are still bearing the brunt of high prices of commodities as the domestic market remains indifferent to the global price fall...
Commerce secretary Mahbubur Rahman on Wednesday urged all concerned to work sincerely for keeping the prices of commodities under control in the country...
Rights activists, consumers, and traders have called for greater collaboration among government agencies to effectively monitor agricultural markets and control essential commodity prices by dismantling syndicates.
World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on Friday, but they remain considerably higher than before the Covid pandemic.
A senior police official on Saturday said that rampant extortion was causing the prices of essentials to rise.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that the country’s businesses were very strong in terms of maintaining a marketing system which was almost impossible to break for checking commodity prices...
People from lower to middle-class backgrounds endure long queues at the open market sales points of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in Dhaka city as rising inflation pushed essential commodity prices higher...
Global commodity prices should fall to a five-year low next year thanks to a huge oil glut, the World Bank said Tuesday, pointing to oversupply and to flat demand from China...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry administrator, Md Hafizur Rahman, called on district chambers to take proactive measures to manage commodity prices and ensure a steady supply of daily necessities on Sunday.
Bangladesh’s interim government law adviser Asif Nazrul apologised to people for price hikes of essentials and said the government was working hard to improve the situation.
The administrator of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Md Hafizur Rahman, on Thursday urged the business community to make logical profit for keeping stable the country’s commodity market.
Labour and employment adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan on Tuesday said that strict action would be taken under the Special Power Act against those involved in syndicates...
Finance and commerce adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday said that syndicates must be stopped from controlling the supply chains to check the price spiral of essentials...
Onion prices have become volatile again on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka with the prices of the essential commodity rising further...