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Dr Omer Javed

Opinion

Crisis of inflation, debt, and weak SDR allocation response

‘We’ve entered an era where supply constraints are the driving force of inflation rather than excess demand. ...

Published 18 Feb, 2022 04:31am

Opinion

Serious debt distress facing developing countries

Many of the developing countries are net importers of oil whose price has been rising, only recently to a seven-year...

Published 11 Feb, 2022 04:31am

Opinion

Covid-19: a pandemic that lays bare deep cracks in the neoliberal economic order

The pandemic has exposed the limited institutional capacity of both individual governments, and multilateral...

Published 04 Feb, 2022 04:43am

Opinion

Economic recovery, inequality, corruption, and wealth tax

January 2022 update of the IMF’s (International Monetary Fund’s) flagship report ‘Global Economic Outlook’...

Published 28 Jan, 2022 04:45am

Opinion

Inflation, monetary policy, borrowing costs, and debt sustainability

‘The start of this year is an eerie echo of 2021. A new variant of coronavirus has sent infections...

Published 21 Jan, 2022 05:27am

Opinion

Inflation and growth

While inflation has been caused primarily by the pandemic-led recession that fed into supply cuts, and the return of...

Published 14 Jan, 2022 06:50am

Opinion

CPTPP and Pakistan

Due to overall low economic institutional quality, recurring macroeconomic stabilization issues and lower market...

Published 07 Jan, 2022 06:22am

Opinion

2022: year of essential economic reform

There is a lot of spilt milk in terms of lost time to initiate meaningful, broad-based institutional, ...

Published 31 Dec, 2021 06:50am

Opinion

Turkey’s ‘new economic model’: any lessons for Pakistan?

Pakistan has seen its currency depreciate sizably during the ongoing tenure of this government; some justifiably to...

Updated 24 Dec, 2021 03:45pm

Opinion

Macroeconomic choices for 2022

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) increased policy rate by 1 percent (100 basis points) to 9.75 percent. This is the...

Published 17 Dec, 2021 04:30am

Opinion

Covid’s Omicron variant and some likely repercussions

‘The global risk from the new Omicron coronavirus variant is “very high”, the World Health Organization...

Updated 03 Dec, 2021 05:22am

Opinion

A tight macroeconomic policy stance and its repercussions

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is its latest monetary policy statement (MPS) increased policy rate by 150 basis points...

Published 26 Nov, 2021 05:15am

Opinion

COP26 left a lot to be desired

‘Many people around the world already consider the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow a...

Published 19 Nov, 2021 04:35am

Opinion

High commodity prices — what could have been done differently?

With Brent Crude prices at very low position of around $20 a barrel around the third week of April last year, and...

Published 12 Nov, 2021 04:46am

Opinion

Climate change crisis and COP26

'Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to...

Published 05 Nov, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

Supply chain crisis: balancing globalization and autarky

'The supply chain crisis threatening the global economy risks lasting at least another year unless governments step...

Published 29 Oct, 2021 05:05am

Opinion

Pakistan should leave IMF programme

Pakistan should come out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, pursue active economic diplomacy, and...

Updated 22 Oct, 2021 04:54pm

Opinion

Politics and Bretton Woods institutions

‘The “Doing Business” controversy has shaken confidence in the World Bank and the IMF. But it must not obscure...

Published 15 Oct, 2021 04:08am

Opinion

Supply chain crisis, imported inflation, and greater autarky

Prime Minister, Imran Khan reportedly indicated that inflationary pressures are mainly due to imported inflation, as...

Published 08 Oct, 2021 04:30am

Opinion

Dilemma facing IMF, and programme countries

The pandemic has seen international commodity prices, especially food prices, sky rocket; while oil prices also ...

Published 01 Oct, 2021 04:07am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 21	278.03
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 21	277.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 21	154.92
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 21	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 21	1.26
Euro to USD / Nov 21	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 20	5,917.11
Nasdaq / Nov 20	18,966.14
Dow Jones / Nov 20	43,408.47
India Sensex / Nov 21	77,137.20
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 21	38,026.17
Hang Seng / Nov 21	19,620.49
FTSE 100 / Nov 21	8,069.57
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 21	18,942.65

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 21	248.38
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 21	69.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 21	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 21	238,340
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 21	2,662.71
Diesel/Litre / Nov 21	255.14

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 21 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	174,389,145 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	63,973,243 ▲ 0.00
Kohinoor Spining / Nov 21 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	62,996,737 ▲ 0.00
Aisha Steel Mill / Nov 21 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	48,137,561 ▲ 0.00
Waves Home Appliances / Nov 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	43,506,391 ▲ 0.00
Lotte Chemical / Nov 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	40,852,960 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Nov 21 Telecard Limited(TELE)	36,937,252 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	31,401,025 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	31,346,592 ▲ 0.00

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