On Sunday, the first trading day of the week, the DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), tumbled 4.42 percent to settle at 5,008.99. The market witnessed a similar rout in February 2012, when the index lost 236 points on Feb 1 and 229 points on Feb 6. It's war, war, and more war news," Ahmed told bdnews24.com. Total turnover rose to Tk 5.31 billion from Tk 4.59 billion in the previous session, with the banking sector leading trading at Tk 1.15 billion, followed by pharmaceuticals and chemicals (Tk 0. Shock after shock, and yet growth is at 3.3%," Georgieva told Bloomberg.

Source: bd News24 March 08, 2026 19:02 UTC