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Dr Omer Javed

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

Opinion

Pakistan’s weak economic growth outlook

The July update of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s or simply Fund’s) flagship report, titled ‘World Economic...

Updated 26 Jul, 2024 11:55am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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