1.- INTRODUCTION

With pandemic COVID19 hitting hard economies worldwide since February 2020, the implementation of preventive confinement measures to protect populations health and safety in every country, had in Spain devastating consequences. Due to the declared State of Alarm in Spain on March 14th by Spanish government, confinement measures, limitation of economic and trade activity during this period, had an immediate impact in the country’s macroeconomy: it is facing gloomy forecasts in terms of collapsing  of GDP growth  and the increase of unemployment rate  to order of magnitudes not seen in recent history in Spain.

Shares of Ambuja CementsNSE 2.59 % advanced nearly 4% in Monday’s trade ahead of the company’s March quarter results scheduled later in the day.

HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Limited, for the first time since its enlistment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange in 1989, declared no dividend for the fiscal year 2019-20 for its shareholders as the company incurred Tk18.64 crore loss in the last fiscal.