News stories for Dr Omer Javed

Dr Omer Javed

Opinion

Need for a more balanced policy emphasis by Pakistan and Argentina

Pakistan and Argentina have somewhat similar macroeconomic, and growth consequences, whereby although the extent of...

Published 27 Dec, 2024 06:27am

Opinion

South Korea’s sub-optimal experience with Neoliberalism: lessons for Pakistan

Pakistan has been actively under neoliberal policies since late 1980s when it first started to come under major...

Published 20 Dec, 2024 02:43am

Opinion

Pakistan’s economic outlook 2025: inflation, growth, & debt

Among macroeconomic indicators, primarily inflation has come down drastically over recent months, whereby consumer...

Updated 13 Dec, 2024 03:41pm

Opinion

A truly global economic policy needed

In an October 24 post by The Guardian, it highlighted the comments made by Kristalina Georgieva, the head of...

Updated 06 Dec, 2024 08:12am

Opinion

Carbon emitters, climate finance, and climate justice

In the just concluded COP29 meetings in Baku, Azerbaijan, there was serious deadlock over the climate finance...

Published 29 Nov, 2024 06:21am

Opinion

Issues in reaching needed level of climate finance, and fast

The current, widely-practiced model of Neoliberalism, and within it over-board recourse to monetary and fiscal...

Published 22 Nov, 2024 03:03am

Opinion

Existential threats, and need for 10-year economic, environmental, and epidemiological plan

The federal minister for planning and development, Ahsan Iqbal, reportedly indicated that the Prime Minister will...

Updated 21 Nov, 2024 04:13pm

Opinion

Trump, global economy, and a world of polycrisis

The last time Donald Trump was in office, the world was in the midst of a global pandemic, and the cost of living ...

Updated 08 Nov, 2024 08:38am

Opinion

Serious issues in IMF programmes: time for urgent reform

‘Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile is widely seen as inaugurating the global neoliberal era. As the 1970s progressed,...

Updated 01 Nov, 2024 11:36pm

Opinion

IMF’s risk assessment: eyes half shut

The first coronavirus outbreak – SARS – in the shape of epidemic happened around the beginning of this century....

Published 18 Oct, 2024 06:41am

Opinion

From ‘Doing Business’ report to ‘B-Ready’ report: some reflections

In a statement released on September 16, 2021, World Bank Group (WBG) indicated discontinuation of its ‘Doing...

Updated 11 Oct, 2024 06:40pm

Opinion

IMF programme: a mixed bag of economic consequences

In the statement released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 27, it indicated that it had approved a...

Updated 04 Oct, 2024 08:29am

Opinion

Poor reflection of economic history by policymakers

‘A World Bank study of 177 sovereign external and domestic debt defaults found that five years after successful...

Updated 27 Sep, 2024 08:14am

Opinion

Economic resilience and IMF surcharges

‘Supporters of the surcharges argue that the additional fees discourage debtors from borrowing excessively from ...

Updated 20 Sep, 2024 08:29am

Opinion

Fixing ‘The middle-income trap’ for all countries

Although quite late, and perhaps because of the urgency being created by the fast-unfolding climate change crisis,...

Published 13 Sep, 2024 06:58am

Opinion

What sustainable macroeconomic stability?

The fall in inflation (to be precise CPI inflation) to single-digit in August –stood at 9.6 percent – meant that...

Updated 06 Sep, 2024 07:36am

Opinion

Need for a country-wide, across-sectors ‘Pricing Policy’

Weak regulation of markets, or the policy of ‘market fundamentalism’ that market knows best, and left mostly on...

Published 30 Aug, 2024 07:15am

Opinion

Economic policy and central bank independence

Unfortunately, economic policy globally is settled on very unsettling fundamentals, and rather than fixing this, the...

Published 23 Aug, 2024 03:33am

Opinion

Need for revisiting 2 percent inflation target

‘The stock market crash is – perhaps – the long-awaited signal of a US economic slump.…The market meltdown...

Published 09 Aug, 2024 06:56am

Opinion

Challenging gross financing requirements

Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund...

Updated 02 Aug, 2024 06:17am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 31	278.65
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 31	278.45
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 31	156.20
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 31	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 31	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 31	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 30	5,906.94
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 30	39,894.54
Nasdaq / Dec 30	19,486.79
FTSE 100 / Dec 30	8,121.01
Dow Jones / Dec 30	42,573.73
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 30	19,909.14
France CAC40 / Dec 30	7,313.56
India Sensex / Dec 31	78,017.14

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 30	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 30	241,430.80
Petrol/Litre / Dec 31	252.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 31	71.59
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 31	2,605.88
Diesel/Litre / Dec 31	255.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Hira Textile / Dec 31 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4 ▲ 0.70 (21.21%)
F. Nat.Equities / Dec 31 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	4.61 ▲ 0.52 (12.71%)
Gulshan Sp. / Dec 31 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.50 ▲ 0.50 (12.50%)
Pak Int.Bulk / Dec 31 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	9.38 ▲ 1.00 (11.93%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 31 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	15.70 ▲ 1.43 (10.02%)
Ali Asghar / Dec 31 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	65.45 ▲ 5.95 (10.00%)
Chakwal Spinning / Dec 31 Chakwal Spinning Mills Limited(CWSM)	64.67 ▲ 5.88 (10.00%)
Dadex Eternit / Dec 31 Dadex Eternit Limited(DADX)	70.52 ▲ 6.41 (10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Dec 31 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	150.54 ▲ 13.69 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Frontier Ceram / Dec 31 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	42.91 ▼ -4.77 (-10.00%)
Khairpur Sug. / Dec 31 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	203.82 ▼ -22.64 (-10.00%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 31 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	43.35 ▼ -4.81 (-9.99%)
Shahmurad Sugar / Dec 31 Shahmurad Sugar Mills Limited(SHSML)	431 ▼ -42.13 (-8.90%)
Shadman Cotton / Dec 31 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	24.51 ▼ -2.29 (-8.54%)
Int. Knit. / Dec 31 International Knitwear Limited(INKL)	16.12 ▼ -1.50 (-8.51%)
Hallmark Co. / Dec 31 Hallmark Company Limited(HCL)	781 ▼ -71.49 (-8.39%)
IGI Life Ins / Dec 31 IGI Life Insurance Limited(IGIL)	14.52 ▼ -1.33 (-8.39%)
Service Textile / Dec 31 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	11.12 ▼ -0.97 (-8.02%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Dec 31 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	143,149,630 ▲ 0.51
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 31 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	111,551,930 ▼ -0.01
B.O.Punjab / Dec 31 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	84,182,656 ▲ 0.23
Silk Bank Ltd / Dec 31 Silkbank Limited(SILK)	48,777,302 ▼ -0.03
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 31 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	45,320,218 ▲ 0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 31 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	39,614,367 ▲ 0.91
Pak Elektron / Dec 31 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	36,348,761 ▼ -0.32
Pak Int.Bulk / Dec 31 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	30,921,488 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 31 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	30,315,237 ▼ -0.82

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