The dollar jumped to a seven-week high on Friday and was on track to post its best week since September 2022 after a surprisingly strong jobs report for September led traders to cut bets that the Federal Reserve will make further 50-basis-point rate cuts.

Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) decided to sell each US dollar at Tk 110.50 to importers and buy it at Tk 110 from exporters and remitters

Bankers today decided to appreciate the taka against the US dollar by Tk 0.50 from tomorrow as they observed an improvement in the overall current account balance, which records the nation's transactions with the rest of the world

Banks will buy dollar at Tk 110, sell at Tk 110.5 from Nov 23

Earlier this month, the edible oil refiners’ association wrote to the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission seeking to increase prices of cooking oil.

The Bangladesh Bank has asked 10 banks’ managing directors why their treasury heads should not be penalised for their involvement in dollar rate manipulation this year.

Banks today refixed the rate at which they would buy US dollars coming in through foreign exchange houses in the form of remittance.

The record fuel price hike last week has thrown a spanner in the works to the finance division’s projection of bringing the twin problems of inflation and delicate foreign currency reserves under control by December.

The emerging multi-polar world is now trying to reduce the use of the greenback in their trade after the US and EU imposed multilateral sanctions on Russia.