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Pakistani rice exports decline by 14pc

LAHORE: Lower rates of Indian rice, exorbitant freight charges and higher buying by the importing countries last ...

Published 25 Jun, 2021 04:20am

Markets

PASSCO to receive 300,000 metric tons of wheat by July 2021

LAHORE: The Pakistan Agricultural Services & Storage Corporation (PASSCO) will be receiving 300,000 metric tons...

Published 22 Jun, 2021 04:46am

Pakistan

Punjab seeks Chinese help on FMD vaccine production project

LAHORE: The Punjab Government has requested the federal government to seek Chinese cooperation for the project of...

Published 20 Jun, 2021 03:39am

Pakistan

Growers reject Punjab budget

LAHORE: Growers organizations have claimed that an additional burden of Rs 25-30 billion has been imposed on farmers...

Published 16 Jun, 2021 03:40am

Business & Finance

Punjab budget 2021-22: Rs36.496bn earmarked for agriculture, food security and livestock

LAHORE: The Punjab government has proposed to collectively allocate a sum of Rs 36.496 billion for agriculture, food...

Published 15 Jun, 2021 03:30am

Pakistan

FAO, agri-dept to carry out awareness drive against FAW

LAHORE: The Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Punjab Agriculture Department has...

Published 08 Jun, 2021 04:09am

Business & Finance

Cement sector shows excellent growth rate of 49.86pc in May

LAHORE: Cement sector showed excellent growth of 49.86 percent during May 2021 when total cement dispatches were...

Published 06 Jun, 2021 02:56am

Markets

Area under sowing of cotton falls short of target in Punjab

LAHORE: Initial surveys of the cotton sowing area by the provincial departments concerned suggest that area under...

Published 03 Jun, 2021 04:13am

Pakistan

Transformation of agri-credit proposed

LAHORE: Agriculture Republic, an agriculture think tank, has proposed in the coming budget transformation of...

Published 27 May, 2021 03:40am

Business & Finance

Punjab PA notifies Sugar Factories (Control) (Amendment) Act 2021

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly has notified the ‘Sugar Factories (Control) (Amendment) Act 2021 repealing the two...

Published 19 May, 2021 06:00am

Markets

PPA for bringing down duty on soybean to zero

LAHORE: The Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) has proposed that avenues of import of corn/soybean and sunflower ...

Published 18 May, 2021 05:05am

Pakistan

Agriculture transformation: Govt urged to include farmers’ representatives in NCC for feedback

LAHORE: Agriculture Republic, a think tank formed to discuss issues faced by the agriculture and livestock has urged...

Published 16 May, 2021 04:26am

Markets

Punjab gets bumper wheat crop

LAHORE: Punjab government has claimed to achieve record wheat production of over 20.9 million metric tons from an...

Published 13 May, 2021 03:10am

Pakistan

Chicken price at all-time high

LAHORE: There seems to be no respite for chicken meat consumers as its prices on Tuesday reached an all-time high at...

Updated 12 May, 2021 10:27am

Markets

Cotton crop sown slightly over 1.25m acres in Punjab so far

LAHORE: Cotton crop has so far been sown slightly over 1.25 million acres of land in Punjab against the target of 4...

Published 11 May, 2021 04:39am

Pakistan

PFMA-Punjab warns of flour shortage during Eid holidays

LAHORE: Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA-Punjab Zone) has warned of flour shortage during Eid holidays because...

Updated 09 May, 2021 10:30am

Business & Finance

‘Cement exports surge by 252pc in April’

LAHORE: Cement sector posted robust growth of 40.41 percent in April 2021 when total cement despatches were...

Published 05 May, 2021 04:01am

Markets

Sindh, B’tan: Passco may not meet wheat procurement targets

LAHORE: The Pakistan Agricultural Services and Supplies Corporation (PASSCO) may not be able to meet its procurement...

Published 25 Apr, 2021 03:13am

Pakistan

Sugar shortage continues to haunt consumers in Lahore

LAHORE: Sugar shortage continued to haunt the consumers in the provincial metropolis as either is it not available ...

Updated 16 Apr, 2021 09:56am

Business & Finance

Sugar industry heading towards crisis: PSMA Punjab

LAHORE: The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association, Punjab Zone, has claimed that the sugar industry is heading towards...

Updated 14 Apr, 2021 10:11am

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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