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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

The youth bulge

The high rate of population growth of Pakistan, among the highest in the world, has led to the emergence of a large...

Updated 04 Jul, 2023 05:50am

Opinion

Trend in key fiscal ratios

The consistent series of the GDP with one year, 2015-16, has been estimated and released by the PBS from 1999-2000...

Published 27 Jun, 2023 06:15am

Opinion

FBR’s revenue target

The federal budget for 2023-24 was announced recently. There was the expectation that the fiscal efforts for ...

Published 20 Jun, 2023 03:16am

Opinion

The economy in FY2023-24

The economic prospects for Pakistan in 2023-24 have been presented in the Annual Plan prepared by the Planning...

Published 13 Jun, 2023 06:00am

Opinion

Budget strategy for FY2023-24

The budget for 2023-24 will be presented by the federal government in the Parliament in the next few days. There has...

Published 06 Jun, 2023 05:33am

Opinion

Growth rate: PBS under the spotlight

The provisional estimates for 2022-23 of the GDP by sector and by expenditure have been released recently by the...

Published 30 May, 2023 03:37am

Opinion

Slump in industrial production

There is no end to the bad news on the on-going performance of the economy of Pakistan. Now we have been informed by...

Updated 23 May, 2023 06:36am

Opinion

Fragile state of public finances

The information on fiscal operations by the federal and provincial governments in the first nine months of 2022-23...

Published 16 May, 2023 03:23am

Opinion

Causes of the rising inflation

The rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has been persistently rising since September...

Published 09 May, 2023 05:37am

Opinion

IMF projections for 2023-24

The World Economic Outlook issue of April 2023 by the IMF contains detailed macroeconomic [AN1] projections at the...

Published 02 May, 2023 05:59am

Opinion

Contrasting trends

The economy is showing contrasting trends in different segments of activity. This is due to various factors like the...

Published 25 Apr, 2023 06:25am

Opinion

The IMF projections

The IMF has made projections for 2023 and a number of subsequent years at the global and country level in its latest...

Updated 18 Apr, 2023 07:21am

Opinion

Economic projections

The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have both released economic projections of Pakistan. Both...

Published 11 Apr, 2023 03:44am

Opinion

Rising public debt

The extremely worrying indicator today is the large and rapidly growing level of public debt, including the external...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 03:24am

Opinion

The economic malaise

Pakistan today faces the worst financial crisis in its 75-year history. This is attributable to both long-term ...

Updated 28 Mar, 2023 06:52am

Opinion

Falling exports and imports

The February figures of exports, imports and balance of trade have just been released. They tell a story of extreme...

Updated 21 Mar, 2023 07:01am

Opinion

Containment of imports

The latest international trade statistics for the period, July to February, 2022-23, have just been released by the...

Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am

Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan is seeing today an unprecedented hike in the rate of inflation. The CPI has risen on a year-to-year basis ...

Published 07 Mar, 2023 03:16am

Opinion

Progressive fiscal policy

The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the...

Published 28 Feb, 2023 06:15am

Opinion

Surging govt debt

The statistics on total debt of Pakistan as of end-December 2022 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank ...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 15	278.85
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 15	278.70
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 15	157.36
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 15	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 15	1.22
Euro to USD / Jan 15	1.03

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 14	5,842.91
Nasdaq / Jan 14	19,044.39
FTSE 100 / Jan 14	8,201.54
Dow Jones / Jan 14	42,518.28
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 14	20,271.33
France CAC40 / Jan 14	7,423.67
India Sensex / Jan 15	76,746.81
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 15	38,379.49

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 9	237,483
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 14	18,785
Petrol/Litre / Jan 15	252.66
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 15	77.93
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 15	2,681.51
Diesel/Litre / Jan 15	258.34

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Gulshan Sp. / Jan 15 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.63 ▲ 0.53 (12.93%)
First Elite Cap.Mod / Jan 15 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	6.35 ▲ 0.68 (11.99%)
Parmount Sp. / Jan 15 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	5 ▲ 0.50 (11.11%)
Service Textile / Jan 15 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	15.13 ▲ 1.38 (10.04%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jan 15 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	12.29 ▲ 1.12 (10.03%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 15 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	11.65 ▲ 1.06 (10.01%)
BF Biosciences / Jan 15 BF Biosciences Limited(BFBIO)	231.30 ▲ 21.03 (10.00%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Jan 15 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	17.49 ▲ 1.59 (10.00%)
Otsuka Pakistan / Jan 15 Otsuka Pakistan Limited(OTSU)	186.36 ▲ 16.94 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Universal Ins. / Jan 15 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	9.71 ▼ -1.08 (-10.01%)
Sana Ind / Jan 15 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	30.89 ▼ -2.54 (-7.60%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 15 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	49.51 ▼ -3.64 (-6.85%)
Blessed Tex. / Jan 15 Blessed Textiles Limited(BTL)	321.51 ▼ -23.00 (-6.68%)
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Jan 15 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.15 ▼ -0.22 (-6.53%)
Zahid Jee Textile / Jan 15 Zahidjee Textile Mills Limited(ZAHID)	26.35 ▼ -1.65 (-5.89%)
Faisal Sp. / Jan 15 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	315 ▼ -19.63 (-5.87%)
Habib Rice Products / Jan 15 Habib Rice Product Limited(HRPL)	31.06 ▼ -1.81 (-5.51%)
Unicap Modaraba / Jan 15 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	2.92 ▼ -0.16 (-5.19%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 15 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	42,527,928 ▼ -0.04
Pak Refinery / Jan 15 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,516,405 ▲ 2.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 15 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	33,447,471 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 15 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	29,525,333 ▲ 0.00
Sui South Gas / Jan 15 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	26,679,632 ▼ -0.42
Hascol Petrol / Jan 15 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	26,398,810 ▲ 0.06
TRG Pak Ltd / Jan 15 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	22,843,616 ▲ 3.83
Telecard Limited / Jan 15 Telecard Limited(TELE)	19,836,175 ▼ -0.17
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 15 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	16,136,998 ▼ -0.24

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