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Opinion

Fact sheet: renewable energy

Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif this week, in a meeting with a Chinese company that is interested to set up a...

Published 17 Sep, 2022 04:27am

Opinion

The IMF report

Ever since the incumbent government came to power some four months ago, all roads lead to the IMF (International...

Published 10 Sep, 2022 04:14am

Opinion

Rising electricity tariffs: a fact-sheet

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) conditionalities imposed with the grant of their loan is invariably cited by...

Published 03 Sep, 2022 04:25am

Opinion

Flood havoc and role of NDMA

Once again a national disaster in the shape of massive flooding has wreaked havoc across much of Pakistan and once...

Published 27 Aug, 2022 05:49am

Opinion

The 2021 GHI

Some 811 million people suffer from hunger in the world and 41 million live on the brink of famine. Moreover, 47...

Published 20 Aug, 2022 03:41am

Opinion

Need for forging new business alliances

Pakistan signed an inter-governmental framework agreement with the government of Denmark for interest-free loans in...

Published 13 Aug, 2022 05:21am

Opinion

Power sector: accountability

Briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Power on the performance of power sector, its financial...

Published 06 Aug, 2022 04:02am

Opinion

PKR slide: SBP must act proactively

In these times of unprecedented economic emergency in the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, ...

Published 30 Jul, 2022 03:39am

Opinion

A reality check on country’s fiscal status

The whole of the past week witnessed massive hammering of rupee (PKR) vis-à-vis the US dollar in the currency...

Published 23 Jul, 2022 04:10am

Opinion

The increasing Indo-Pak disparity

For a couple of early years of Pakistan’s and India’s independence, the disparity in terms of border security,...

Published 16 Jul, 2022 04:20am

Opinion

New IMF precondition

Strengthening of the anti-corruption institutional mechanism is said to be a new International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Published 09 Jul, 2022 03:57am

Opinion

How good is our foreign policy?

Pakistan appears to be losing out on its global outreach. The country’s national foreign policy is somehow not...

Published 02 Jul, 2022 04:10am

Opinion

Challenges beyond IMF

There is a widespread perception that the revival of the stalled IMF programme will help Pakistan move out of its...

Published 25 Jun, 2022 04:42am

Opinion

Blame game, once again

A successor government blaming its predecessor government for all the ills is nothing new. Therefore, Pakistan ...

Published 18 Jun, 2022 06:00am

Opinion

Economy and national security

The fragile state economy of the country is worrisome and has distressed all segments of society and pillars of ...

Published 11 Jun, 2022 06:14am

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Pessimism grows

The nation started the year 2022 under a euphoria of all good after moving out of the Covid pandemic largely...

Published 04 Jun, 2022 04:18am

Opinion

Criticality of business enabling environment

‘Business by the businessmen alone. There is little room for bureaucracy and politics in it’. This is the basic...

Published 28 May, 2022 05:11am

Opinion

The sands of time are running out

Perplexed and checkmated by coalition partners and in panic to stem the nose dive of the country’s economy over ...

Published 21 May, 2022 04:34am

Opinion

A free-for-all

There is an environment of free-for-all in state politics, economy and governance for the last two months. The ...

Published 14 May, 2022 04:05am

Opinion

A chaotic economy

While the incumbent finance minister Miftah Ismail was still in the air on his way back, having announced successful...

Updated 07 May, 2022 08:48pm

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	155.54
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 17	5,996.66
Nasdaq / Jan 17	19,630.20
Dow Jones / Jan 17	43,487.83
India Sensex / Jan 21	76,270.33
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 21	39,027.98
Hang Seng / Jan 21	20,098.89
FTSE 100 / Jan 21	8,529.98
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 21	20,988.55

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 20	18,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 20	242,541
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 21	77.24
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 21	2,724.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 21	68.02
Petrol/Litre / Jan 22	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Jan 21 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9.60 ▲ 1.00 (11.63%)
Equity Modaraba / Jan 21 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.54 ▲ 0.34 (10.62%)
Waves Home Appliances / Jan 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	11.30 ▲ 1.03 (10.03%)
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.98 ▲ 1.00 (10.02%)
Globe Residency / Jan 21 Globe Residency REIT(GRR)	17.36 ▲ 1.58 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 21 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	25.06 ▲ 2.28 (10.01%)
Olympia Mills / Jan 21 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	35.65 ▲ 3.24 (10.00%)
Pak Engineering / Jan 21 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	671.22 ▲ 61.02 (10.00%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 21 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	108.90 ▲ 9.90 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	45.21 ▼ -5.02 (-9.99%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	16.62 ▼ -1.62 (-8.88%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 21 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	64.32 ▼ -6.22 (-8.82%)
S.G.Power / Jan 21 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9 ▼ -0.81 (-8.26%)
Dadabhoy Cement / Jan 21 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	5.10 ▼ -0.43 (-7.78%)
Sanghar Sugar / Jan 21 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	23.05 ▼ -1.94 (-7.76%)
ZIL Limited / Jan 21 ZIL Limited(ZIL)	226.01 ▼ -18.99 (-7.75%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 21 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	526 ▼ -43.96 (-7.71%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 21 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	13 ▼ -1.03 (-7.34%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	111,866,059 ▲ 0.44
Bank Makramah / Jan 21 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	69,297,556 ▲ 0.05
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	64,182,488 ▼ -0.09
Lotte Chemical / Jan 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	59,473,543 ▼ -0.94
Fauji Cement / Jan 21 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	51,882,881 ▲ 0.34
Hascol Petrol / Jan 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	24,273,766 ▼ -0.39
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 21 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	23,353,008 ▼ -1.60
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	22,896,108 ▼ -5.02
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	21,890,802 ▼ -1.62

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