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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

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Latest IMF projections

The Staff Report of the IMF on the First Review under the Stand-By Arrangement was released on the 19th of January...

Published 13 Feb, 2024 05:59am

Opinion

Budgetary outcome in first half of FY24

The information on the fiscal operations by the federal and the provincial governments in the first half of 2023-24...

Published 06 Feb, 2024 05:00am

Opinion

Rising poverty

The incidence of poverty has skyrocketed in Pakistan since the Covid-19 pandemic and the disastrous floods of 2022....

Updated 30 Jan, 2024 05:29am

Opinion

Post-general election economic outlook

Elections will hopefully be held in the next two weeks. They are taking place at a time when the economy continues ...

Published 23 Jan, 2024 05:14am

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IMF projections

The good news is that the IMF Executive Board has completed the First Review of the Stand-By Arrangement for ...

Updated 16 Jan, 2024 06:12am

Opinion

Concerns of the World Bank

An article titled “Economic Turnaround Moment?” has recently been published in the newspaper, Dawn. It has been...

Published 09 Jan, 2024 04:18am

Opinion

Problematic statistics

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has been endeavoring to improve the quality and coverage of statistics in...

Published 02 Jan, 2024 05:21am

Opinion

Fall in industrial production

The statistics on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics...

Published 26 Dec, 2023 04:30am

Opinion

Outlook for inflation

The statement released recently by the Monetary Policy Committee of the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) indicates that...

Published 19 Dec, 2023 05:20am

Opinion

Mixed economic trends

The first five months of 2023-24 have witnessed upturns and downturns both globally and within Pakistan. There was...

Published 12 Dec, 2023 05:28am

Opinion

Growth in federal tax revenues

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has released recently the Revenue Division Year Book for 2022-23. This is a very...

Published 05 Dec, 2023 03:01am

Opinion

Unusual balance of payments

The data on the balance of payments in the first four months of 2023-24 has been released recently by the SBP (State...

Updated 28 Nov, 2023 05:22am

Opinion

Low inflows of external financing

The first quarterly review of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Stand-by Facility has been successfully...

Published 21 Nov, 2023 06:01am

Opinion

Estimation of the quarterly GDP

Pakistan has committed to the IMF in the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, as part of the Stand-by...

Updated 14 Nov, 2023 05:42am

Opinion

SBP projections for 2023-24

The Annual Report for 2022-23 on the State of the Economy by the SBP has been released recently. Along with a...

Published 07 Nov, 2023 07:02am

Opinion

Budgetary outcome in first quarter

The information on fiscal operations in the first quarter of 2023-24 by the Federal and the four Provincial...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Opinion

Value of PKR

There have been unusual developments in the value of the rupee (PKR) during the last seven weeks. From a trend in ...

Updated 24 Oct, 2023 05:50am

Opinion

The state of provincial finances

The financial year, 2023-24, has started with an ambitious target for generation of cash surpluses by the four...

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 06:59am

Opinion

Spurt in inflation

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released the estimate of the rate of inflation in the national Consumer...

Updated 10 Oct, 2023 06:47am

Opinion

Improving tax compliance

The caretaker government has set up a tax reforms taskforce to come up with recommendations to close the ‘tax...

Published 03 Oct, 2023 06:02am

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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