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Power sector in turmoil

Chairing a meeting on energy reforms a few days ago, prime minister Imran Khan expressed his grave concern over the...

Published 17 Oct, 2020 03:08am

Opinion

Business growth versus regulations

The businesses in Pakistan are strongly influenced and controlled by Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs). A favorable...

Published 10 Oct, 2020 03:02am

Opinion

Energy sector challenges

Prime Minister Imran Khan, while chairing a meeting this week to review progress of reforms in the energy sector, is...

Published 03 Oct, 2020 02:45am

Opinion

Gas load-shedding: new challenge

The advent of summer or winter, year after year, ushers in fears in the minds of people of Pakistan - fear of power...

Published 26 Sep, 2020 02:40am

Opinion

SOEs: most viable option

One of the IMF key benchmarks for the current Extended Fund Facility programme is the settlement of the fate of...

Published 19 Sep, 2020 02:44am

Opinion

Solutions based on creative thinking

ARTICLE: The incumbent government that has concluded 'business-as-usual' will not get the nation where PTI promised...

Published 12 Sep, 2020 02:43am

Opinion

Country needs FDI

ARTICLE: The Board of Investment (BoI) last week rolled out an investment promotion strategy for the next three...

Published 05 Sep, 2020 02:50am

Opinion

'Make in Pakistan'

ARTICLE: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week pledged to promote the local industry and pursue the policy of "Make in...

Published 29 Aug, 2020 02:49am

Markets

Two years in power

ARTICLE: The year 2020 will be recorded in history as a year of severe global economic and political turmoil and...

Published 22 Aug, 2020 03:24am

Opinion

Culture of licences, permits & NOCs

ARTICLE: In these times when countries around the globe are competing to excel in economic growth, perhaps, none of...

Published 15 Aug, 2020 02:41am

Markets

There's need for gap analysis

ARTICLE: In July 2020, the export proceeds grew by 5.8 per cent to $1.998 billion as per the data released by the...

Published 08 Aug, 2020 02:58am

Opinion

Impacts of Covid-19 on foreign investors

The Overseas Investors Chambers of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) conducted among its member companies a survey this...

Published 01 Aug, 2020 01:12am

Opinion

The rationale for subsidies

ARTICLE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed his adviser on finance Dr Hafeez Shaikh to form a "special cell" to...

Published 25 Jul, 2020 02:49am

Opinion

A 'solution' out of the box

ARTICLE: Presiding over a meeting of the Economic think tank early this week, Prime Minister Imran Khan called for...

Published 18 Jul, 2020 02:47am

Opinion

PIA: government's left with only one option

ARTICLE: The Federal Minister of Aviation, while making a statement on the floor of the National Assembly that a...

Updated 11 Jul, 2020 03:10am

Opinion

Oil sector

ARTICLE: In end May 2020, the federal government announced a big reduction in the price of petrol by Rs 7.06 per...

Published 04 Jul, 2020 03:02am

Opinion

The fate of SOEs

ARTICLE: The enthusiasm to turn around State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) through a newly-established entity...

Published 27 Jun, 2020 02:55am

Opinion

Headhunting professionals

ARTICLE: The federal cabinet has reported to have expressed its reservations on the presentation made by Dr Ishrat...

Published 20 Jun, 2020 04:13am

Opinion

Playing the blame game in oil crisis

ARTICLE: No cartel or mafia or any vested interest can effectively function or survive anywhere in the world without...

Published 13 Jun, 2020 03:31am

Opinion

The 190 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) comprising Public Sector Companies (PSCs), Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and Authorities, employing a total of over 425,000 personnel, incur a colossal loss of around Rs 500 billion a year. In other words,

Published 30 May, 2020 12:06am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 21	278.88
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 21	278.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 21	155.80
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 21	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 21	1.23
Euro to USD / Jan 21	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 21	6,049.24
India Sensex / Jan 21	75,838.36
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 21	39,604.71
Nasdaq / Jan 21	19,756.78
Hang Seng / Jan 21	19,872.36
FTSE 100 / Jan 21	8,548.29
Dow Jones / Jan 21	44,025.81
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 21	21,042

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 21	75.89
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 21	18,485
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 21	242,798
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 21	2,749.13
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 21	67.43
Petrol/Litre / Jan 22	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Pak Gen.Ins. / Jan 22 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	9.46 ▲ 0.96 (11.29%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 22 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	27.57 ▲ 2.51 (10.02%)
Calcorp Ltd / Jan 22 Calcorp Limited(CASH)	36.30 ▲ 3.30 (10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Jan 22 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	39 ▲ 3.35 (9.40%)
Pak Engineering / Jan 22 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	728.99 ▲ 57.77 (8.61%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 22 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	118 ▲ 9.10 (8.36%)
Ask.Gen.Insur. / Jan 22 Askari General Insurance Company Limited(AGIC)	32.80 ▲ 2.52 (8.32%)
Rafhan Maize / Jan 22 Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited(RMPL)	9,950 ▲ 755.06 (8.21%)
AL-Noor Sugar / Jan 22 Al-Noor Sugar Mills Limited(ALNRS)	79.85 ▲ 4.93 (6.58%)

Stock	Price
Ellcot Spinning / Jan 22 Ellcot Spinning Mills Limited(ELSM)	108 ▼ -12.00 (-10.00%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 22 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	475 ▼ -51.08 (-9.71%)
Faisal Sp. / Jan 22 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	340 ▼ -29.90 (-8.08%)
Dewan Automotive Eng. / Jan 22 Dewan Automotive Engineering Limited(DWAE)	38.10 ▼ -2.45 (-6.04%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	46.05 ▼ -2.06 (-4.28%)
Equity Modaraba / Jan 22 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.40 ▼ -0.14 (-3.95%)
Pakistan Cables / Jan 22 Pakistan Cables Limited(PCAL)	181.01 ▼ -6.63 (-3.53%)
Arif Habib Ltd. / Jan 22 Arif Habib Limited(AHL)	66.75 ▼ -2.15 (-3.12%)
Adamjee Life Assur. / Jan 22 Adamjee Life Assurance Company Limited(ALIFE)	29.10 ▼ -0.89 (-2.97%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 22 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	114,034,653 ▼ -0.01
Bank Makramah / Jan 22 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	69,476,357 ▼ -0.01
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 22 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	64,227,770 ▼ -0.01
Fauji Cement / Jan 22 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	53,698,225 ▲ 0.15
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 22 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	23,402,152 ▼ -0.63
Lotte Chemical / Jan 22 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	23,042,045 ▲ 0.22
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 22 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	21,938,589 ▼ -0.08
Power Cement / Jan 22 Power Cement Limited(POWER)	21,682,567 ▲ 0.02
B.O.Punjab / Jan 22 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	14,838,637 ▼ -0.04

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