Dhaka, April 12 -- Secondary transactions of the government's fixed-income tradable securities increased by 87 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY24) over the same period of the past fiscal.

Statistics available with the central bank showed that the combined value of the secondary transactions of the treasury bills and treasury bonds stood at Tk 1.12 trillion in July-January period of the current fiscal year against Tk 0.63 trillion in the same period of FY23.

Earlier, in the first seven months of FY22, the value of the secondary transactions of the treasury bills and treasury bonds was recorded at Tk 1.47 trillion.

Thus, the secondary trading of these securities rebound robustly in the first seven months ...