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Dr Omer Javed

Opinion

Need for much improved ‘Uraan Pakistan’ plan

Ministry of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives (or simply ‘Planning Ministry’) recently launched...

Published 03 Jan, 2025 06:49am

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

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 3	278.63
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 3	27,843
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 3	157.28
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 3	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 3	1.24
Euro to USD / Jan 3	1.03

Stock	Volume
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 1	39,894.54
S&P 500 / Jan 2	5,868.55
Nasdaq / Jan 2	19,280.79
FTSE 100 / Jan 2	8,260.09
Dow Jones / Jan 2	42,392.27
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 2	20,024.66
France CAC40 / Jan 2	7,393.76
India Sensex / Jan 3	79,739.02

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 2	18,085
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 2	242,888.30
Petrol/Litre / Jan 3	252.66
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 3	73.26
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 3	2,657
Diesel/Litre / Jan 3	258.34

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Tri-Star Power / Jan 3 Tri-Star Power Limited(TSPL)	6.87 ▲ 1.00 (17.04%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Jan 3 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	28 ▲ 2.55 (10.02%)
Arpak Int. / Jan 3 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	76.89 ▲ 6.99 (10.00%)
GOC (Pak) / Jan 3 GOC (Pak) Limited.(GOC)	79.20 ▲ 7.20 (10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Jan 3 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	200.37 ▲ 18.22 (10.00%)
Suhail Jute / Jan 3 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	175.52 ▲ 15.96 (10.00%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 3 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	50.20 ▲ 4.56 (9.99%)
Bilal Fibres / Jan 3 Bilal Fibres Limited(BILF)	13.68 ▲ 1.24 (9.97%)
Hallmark Co. / Jan 3 Hallmark Company Limited(HCL)	1,200 ▲ 108.60 (9.95%)

Stock	Price
Sanghar Sugar / Jan 3 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	23.45 ▼ -2.61 (-10.02%)
Frontier Ceram / Jan 3 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	31.28 ▼ -3.48 (-10.01%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Jan 3 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	42.92 ▼ -4.77 (-10.00%)
Jubilee Spinning / Jan 3 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	10.81 ▼ -1.19 (-9.92%)
Sindh Abadgar / Jan 3 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	37.16 ▼ -4.09 (-9.92%)
J.K.Spinning / Jan 3 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	56 ▼ -5.00 (-8.20%)
First Elite Cap.Mod / Jan 3 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	5.51 ▼ -0.49 (-8.17%)
Khalid Siraj / Jan 3 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	8.12 ▼ -0.71 (-8.04%)
Kohinoor Mills / Jan 3 Kohinoor Mills Limited(KML)	32.01 ▼ -2.72 (-7.83%)

Stock	Volume
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 3 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	89,478,727 ▲ 0.17
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 3 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	72,001,410 ▼ -0.05
Telecard Limited / Jan 3 Telecard Limited(TELE)	61,073,411 ▼ -0.16
Cnergyico PK / Jan 3 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	52,175,076 ▼ -0.09
B.O.Punjab / Jan 3 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	37,387,280 ▲ 0.04
Pak Elektron / Jan 3 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	33,998,434 ▲ 1.08
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Jan 3 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	31,047,972 ▲ 0.37
Siddiqsons Tin / Jan 3 Siddiqsons Tin Plate Limited(STPL)	23,654,281 ▲ 0.29
Fauji Cement / Jan 3 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	22,896,934 ▼ -2.59

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