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Fresh foreign equity declines despite annual rise in total FDI
Fresh foreign equity investment fell to $77.42 million in April–June, about 5% below a year earlier. Total net foreign direct investment nevertheless rose 12% year on year, helped by reinvested earnings. A separate 22% fall compares the quarter with January–March.
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From 13 October 2026 — Daily Brief
New foreign equity investment in Bangladesh fell to $77.42 million in April–June 2026, compared with $81.3 million a year earlier, according to Bangladesh Bank figures reported on 12 October.
The decline was 4.77%, or roughly 5%. Fresh equity captures new foreign capital and differs from profits that existing investors retain in their Bangladeshi businesses.
Total net foreign direct investment, which also includes reinvested earnings and inter-company loans, reached $346.94 million. That was around 12% above the same quarter a year earlier, with higher reinvestment helping offset weaker new equity.
However, total net investment was 22% below the January–March quarter. The annual increase and quarterly decline use different comparison periods and are not contradictory.
Economists cited in the report linked weak new investment to concerns about sovereign credit ratings and banking-sector problems. Those explanations are assessments of investor behaviour, rather than conclusions established by the investment figures alone.