Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n
Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves today once again reached US$30.01 billion mark which was $29.95 billion yesterday as the inflow of remittances is now maintaining an upward trend ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.<\/p>\n
As per Bangladesh Bank data, between 1-20 June, $1.53bn had entered the country as remittance. In the same period of last year, this figure was $1.10bn.<\/p>\n
In the Fiscal Year 2022-23, the Bangladesh Bank sold $13.43bn from the reserves.<\/p>\n
The sales are usually used to fund government LC payments and procure essential goods.<\/p>\n
After the government paid $1.1 billion in import bills to the Asian Clearing Union, or ACU, for March and April, the reserves fell to $29.7 billion on 8 May.<\/p>\n
It rose again on 10 May, reaching $30.36 billion which was $29.78 billion just a day ago.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh Bank data from 25 May shows that the reserve fell again to $29.96 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff correspondent : Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves today once again reached US$30.01 billion mark which was $29.95 billion yesterday as the inflow of remittances is now maintaining an upward trend ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. As per Bangladesh Bank data, between 1-20 June, $1.53bn had entered the country as remittance. In the same period of last year, this figure was $1.10bn. In the Fiscal Year 2022-23, the Bangladesh Bank sold $13.43bn from the reserves. The sales are usually used to fund government LC payments and procure essential goods. After the government paid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}