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Opinion

The AJK curtain-raiser

I fear the recent unrest in AJK was not an isolated affair, nor does the delayed Rs35bn sweetener mean the end of ...

Published 16 May, 2024 06:28am

Opinion

Labour Day thoughts

Do you think the country’s labour class, especially daily wagers, spent the Labour Day holiday celebrating and...

Published 02 May, 2024 04:58am

Opinion

Sanctioning Iran? ‘Let’s not kid ourselves’

Watching the US House pass a $95 billion “aid package” for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (360-58) reminded me of a...

Published 25 Apr, 2024 03:05am

Opinion

Brent and Bibi

Two bunch of people would have started this week with long faces. One, swing traders with long Brent positions...

Published 18 Apr, 2024 03:24am

Opinion

The irreplaceable Samdhi Dar

To understand why the foreign minister replaced the finance minister at the CCI (Council of Common Interests) you...

Published 04 Apr, 2024 04:56am

Opinion

Russia, IS-K and threat of world war

If IS-K (Islamic State-Khorasan) really did strike Moscow this week – and it has hit concerts and football matches...

Published 28 Mar, 2024 06:47am

Opinion

Hawkish SBP, happy IMF

Some say it was stubborn food inflation that forced SBP’s hand at the MPC, combining with the usual Ramazan effect...

Updated 21 Mar, 2024 06:35am

Opinion

‘Large and long’?

Not much of what new finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, said in his first official media interaction was new –...

Published 14 Mar, 2024 03:00am

Opinion

IMF programme will test SIFC

Two is a trend, they say, and twice in two weeks now the market has shrugged off concerns of international rating...

Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am

Opinion

Default, then?

Fitch’s doubts about securing a post-SBA (Stand-By Arrangement) IMF lifeline show that even leading IFIs...

Published 22 Feb, 2024 06:55am

Opinion

Mr Market’s periscope

Mr Market knows best, goes the old saying, so perhaps its best to look at the wild swings at the stock exchange to...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Opinion

I’m not voting

None of the top politicians and political parties making promises about free houses and hundreds of electricity...

Updated 08 Feb, 2024 08:42pm

Opinion

Joe Biden’s dilemma

The killing of three US servicemen in a drone strike on the Syrian-Jordanian border, claimed by Iran-backed group...

Published 01 Feb, 2024 04:52am

Opinion

TTP after Pakistan-Iran confrontation

Nobody’s talked about it yet, but you can be sure that one party that watched the Iran-Pakistan missile and drone...

Published 25 Jan, 2024 04:23am

Opinion

Maulana tries, and fails

For what it’s worth, Fazlur Rahman’s trip to Kabul has left me five hundred rupees richer. I bet with a...

Published 11 Jan, 2024 06:15am

Opinion

Job of a journalist

It’s still hard to figure out which is worse. Pretty and/or entitled brats with fancy connections landing...

Updated 28 Dec, 2023 05:13am

Opinion

Perfect storm

Who could’ve known that Yemeni Houthis, battered and broken after almost a decade of ugly war, will light the fuse...

Published 21 Dec, 2023 03:54am

Opinion

So they’ll flood the tunnels now?

You have to see it to believe it, but it seems one of the unintended casualties of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is...

Published 14 Dec, 2023 05:24am

Opinion

Why Erdogan is right about Hamas

Why do you think Genocide Joe – POTUS’s new nickname advocated by American Muslim champions of the Abandon Biden...

Published 07 Dec, 2023 04:35am

Opinion

Only Gaza will decide about its future

Now is the time, with a four-day truce in place, to listen to the resistance in Gaza about a solution to the ...

Published 23 Nov, 2023 03:19am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 7	278.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 7	278.50
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 7	158.20
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 7	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 7	1.25
Euro to USD / Jan 7	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 7	5,909.03
India Sensex / Jan 7	77,947.47
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 7	40,058.48
Nasdaq / Jan 7	19,489.68
Hang Seng / Jan 7	19,135.88
FTSE 100 / Jan 7	8,245.28
Dow Jones / Jan 7	42,528.36
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 7	20,340.57

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 7	74.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 7	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 7	236,625
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 7	2,647.82
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 7	68.37
Petrol/Litre / Jan 8	252.66

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Pak Gen.Ins. / Jan 8 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
JS Bank Ltd / Jan 8 JS Bank Limited(JSBL)	10.41 ▲ 1.00 (10.63%)
Idrees Tex. / Jan 8 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	15.68 ▲ 1.43 (10.04%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Jan 8 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	12.38 ▲ 1.13 (10.04%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 8 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	60.58 ▲ 5.51 (10.01%)
Dawood Lawrencepur / Jan 8 Dawood Lawrencepur Limited(DLL)	296.12 ▲ 26.92 (10.00%)
JDW Sugar / Jan 8 JDW Sugar Mills Limited(JDWS)	904.95 ▲ 82.27 (10.00%)
Pakistan Cables / Jan 8 Pakistan Cables Limited(PCAL)	198.34 ▲ 18.03 (10.00%)
Masood Textile / Jan 8 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	59.99 ▲ 5.45 (9.99%)

Stock	Price
JS Mom. Factor ETF / Jan 8 JS Momentum Factor ETF(JSMFETF)	15.44 ▼ -1.89 (-10.91%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	78.82 ▼ -8.76 (-10.00%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jan 8 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	133.71 ▼ -14.86 (-10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Jan 8 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	178.53 ▼ -19.84 (-10.00%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jan 8 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.52 ▼ -0.78 (-9.40%)
Sindh Abadgar / Jan 8 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	37.40 ▼ -3.85 (-9.33%)
Shahzad Tex. / Jan 8 Shahzad Textile Mills Limited(SZTM)	27.10 ▼ -2.77 (-9.27%)
TPL Life Insur. / Jan 8 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	50.01 ▼ -4.56 (-8.36%)
Calcorp Ltd / Jan 8 Calcorp Limited(CASH)	29.10 ▼ -2.65 (-8.35%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	80,583,371 ▲ 0.02
Cnergyico PK / Jan 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	76,600,722 ▼ -0.05
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	45,707,217 ▲ 0.07
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 8 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	36,987,542 ▲ 0.04
Sui South Gas / Jan 8 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,354,890 ▲ 1.58
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 8 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	27,144,749 ▲ 1.00
Pak Refinery / Jan 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	23,513,012 ▲ 0.27
B.O.Punjab / Jan 8 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	22,768,455 ▲ 0.01
Pak Elektron / Jan 8 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	20,370,180 ▲ 0.52

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