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Power generation remains under pressure

It does not make headlines anymore, but electricity generation continues to dwindle month after month. At 8 billion...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 09:07am

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White flag

In a grand display of what some would have found utterly petty and others totally justifiable, angry traders in a...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 09:04am

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Interview of Ibrahim Amin, Chairman Dellsons Associates/Co-founder & Chairman, Pakistan Freelancers Association (PAFLA)

‘Digitalization enhances transparency and accountability, and helps address financial crimes’ Ibrahim Amin is...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 08:57am

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Crash and burn

Automotive assemblers are trying to make do. In the first half of the fiscal year, volumes have shrunk 38 percent...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 07:58am

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PSDP: the slide continues

The decline in the federal government’s Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) has been more severe than...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 07:56am

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Gul Ahmed Textile Mills

Gul Ahmed group has been operating as a textile trader since the 1900s. However, the group commenced its...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 07:56am

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LSM deep in red

Large Scale Manufacturing went down for the fifth straight month, but on a cumulative and monthly basis. This last...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 09:23am

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Cotton demand: grim prospects

The world cotton demand is slowly teetering toward the brink. According to USDA’s latest monthly update, global...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 09:20am

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Supply: Deepcuts

Crisis has hit nearly every industry operating in the country as import restrictions due to dollar shortage have...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 09:18am

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Aisha Steel Mills Limited

Aisha Steel Mills Limited (ASML) comes under the umbrella of the Arif Habib Group and is one of the largest private...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 09:16am

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Looming fuel shortages

With SBP reserves at approximately $4 billion, time is not far when there would be widespread shortages of...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 09:09am

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Back to 2008?

Considering that 2023 is the year of general elections and the fact that the economy is on constant oxygen-support ...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 09:07am

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Discos’ horror show

Another exercise of clearing the energy sector circular debt stock via dividends, Sukuks, or direct cash transfer is...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 09:05am

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Lucky Cement Limited

Lucky Cement Limited is the flagship company of Yunus Brothers Group. Incorporated in 1993, Lucky cement is one of...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 09:03am

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Remittances and exchange rate volatility

Remittances in December 2022 fell for the fourth consecutive month declining by over three percent month-on-month on...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 09:33am

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On another debt crisis

Facing a challenging re-election battle in the next election cycle, the new year could not have started on a worse...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 09:28am

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Car drought

Volumes across the automotive industry (excluding Kia and Changan) have dropped 38 percent in the first half of the...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 09:27am

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Agha Steel Industries Limited

Agha Steel Industries Limited (ASIL) is a fully automatic steel manufacturing company engaged in the production of...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 09:25am

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Country likely to face shortage of pulses?

There may be blood on the streets, but Pakistani appetite for pulses appears to be unsatiated. Despite cash margin...

Published 13 Jan, 2023 09:01am

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Power tariff: FCA returns to mean

As power generation goes down due to a combination of reduced demand owing to the economic slowdown, high prices, ...

Published 13 Jan, 2023 08:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 26	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 26	278.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 24	157.14
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 24	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 24	1.04

Stock	Volume
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
S&P 500 / Dec 24	6,040.04
Nasdaq / Dec 24	20,031.13
Hang Seng / Dec 24	20,098.29
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,136.99
Dow Jones / Dec 24	43,297.03
France CAC40 / Dec 24	7,282.69
India Sensex / Dec 26	78,475.29

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 24	70.10
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 24	240,487.70
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 24	2,616.87
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 24	68.78
Petrol/Litre / Dec 26	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 26	17,785

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Capital Equities / Dec 26 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	6.10 ▲ 1.00 (19.61%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 26 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	6.99 ▲ 1.00 (16.69%)
Next Capital / Dec 26 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	9.90 ▲ 1.00 (11.24%)
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	16.45 ▲ 1.50 (10.03%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 26 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	15.81 ▲ 1.44 (10.02%)
Dewan Motors / Dec 26 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	42.21 ▲ 3.84 (10.01%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 26 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	44.96 ▲ 4.09 (10.01%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 26 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	99.06 ▲ 9.01 (10.01%)
Altern Energy / Dec 26 Altern Energy Limited(ALTN)	22.65 ▲ 2.06 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Jauharabad Sug / Dec 26 Jauharabad Sugar Mills Limited(JSML)	23.10 ▼ -2.57 (-10.01%)
Mughal Energy / Dec 26 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	18.45 ▼ -2.05 (-10.00%)
Fateh Ind. / Dec 26 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	120.56 ▼ -13.38 (-9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 26 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	36.01 ▼ -3.99 (-9.98%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 26 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.54 ▼ -1.50 (-9.97%)
Arctic Textile / Dec 26 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	21.60 ▼ -2.37 (-9.89%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Dec 26 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	12.25 ▼ -1.22 (-9.06%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 26 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	24 ▼ -2.33 (-8.85%)
Equity Modaraba / Dec 26 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3 ▼ -0.29 (-8.81%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	127,408,831 ▼ -0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	93,301,142 ▲ 1.50
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	46,900,564 ▲ 6.41
Sui South Gas / Dec 26 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,559,500 ▼ -1.65
Cnergyico PK / Dec 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	33,367,944 ▼ -0.16
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	30,254,338 ▼ -0.19
B.O.Punjab / Dec 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	30,003,113 ▼ -0.11
Hascol Petrol / Dec 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	27,155,152 ▲ 0.87
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 26 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	26,980,436 ▲ 0.09

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