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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

Outlook for 2022

The year, 2021, has just come to an end. The first part of the year saw a process of recovery from the downturn...

Published 04 Jan, 2022 06:54am

Opinion

Emerging risks

The prospects for the economy of Pakistan are shrouded by growing uncertainty and risk factors, due to developments...

Updated 28 Dec, 2021 09:39am

Opinion

The MPC projections

The last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the SBP was held on the 14th of December 2021, after the...

Published 21 Dec, 2021 04:14am

Opinion

External financing requirements

Updated 14 Dec, 2021 03:33pm

Opinion

Rising inflation

The last four months have witnessed a rising trend in the rate of inflation. It has reached a double-digit rate of...

Published 07 Dec, 2021 06:29am

Opinion

Economic outlook for 2021-22

The motivation for this article lies in the macroeconomic projections for 2021-22 contained in the Annual Report for...

Updated 30 Nov, 2021 06:26am

Opinion

Growth in LSM

The PBS (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics) has released the estimate of the growth in the Quantum Index of ...

Published 23 Nov, 2021 03:54am

Opinion

Budgetary outlay in Q1 of FY22

The information on fiscal operations during the first quarter of 2021-22 of the Federal and the provincial...

Updated 16 Nov, 2021 10:43am

Opinion

Status of the IMF programme

There continues to be a hiatus in the finalization of the sixth review of the IMF Extended Fund Facility to ...

Updated 09 Nov, 2021 10:23am

Opinion

Containing imports

Imports have started growing rapidly once again. During May and June, they registered a growth rate of 80 percent ...

Published 02 Nov, 2021 05:20am

Opinion

Higher inflation in Pakistan

A frequently expressed view in the media, especially by spokespersons for the government, is that the rate of...

Published 26 Oct, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

IMF projections

The latest set of projections by the IMF at the country, regional and global levels are contained in the ...

Updated 19 Oct, 2021 04:38am

Opinion

Inequality in human development

Pioneering work was done by the late Dr. Mahbubul Haq in the early 90s on the construction of a Human Development...

Published 12 Oct, 2021 04:44am

Opinion

Power sector

Nepra (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority) has just released its State of Industry Report for 2020-21. ...

Published 05 Oct, 2021 04:34am

Opinion

A fragile BoP

The figures on the balance of payments (BoP) of Pakistan for the first two months of 2021-22 have been released...

Updated 28 Sep, 2021 11:16am

Opinion

Buoyancy of FBR revenues

The good news is that FBR has achieved extraordinary growth in tax revenues of 41 percent in the first two months of...

Published 21 Sep, 2021 04:10am

Opinion

Provincial economies: key economic ratios

This is the fourth article of a multi-part series of articles on the provincial economies. It focuses on some of the...

Published 14 Sep, 2021 03:55am

Opinion

Economy: rising uncertainty

A number of factors have come together leading to greater uncertainty on the economic front. This level of...

Published 07 Sep, 2021 06:25am

Opinion

Growth of provincial economies

The previous two articles had presented estimates of the size of the four provincial economies and the economic...

Published 31 Aug, 2021 04:03am

Opinion

Structure of the provincial economies

The previous article highlighted the shares of the four Provincial economies in the Gross Domestic and National...

Published 24 Aug, 2021 05:02am

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)	4.70 ▲ 0.60 (14.63%)
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
Sana Ind / Jan 15 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	30.11 ▼ -3.32 (-9.93%)
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Jan 15 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.10 ▼ -0.27 (-8.01%)
Universal Ins. / Jan 15 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	10 ▼ -0.79 (-7.32%)
Paramount Mod / Jan 15 First Paramount Modaraba(FPRM)	8.42 ▼ -0.62 (-6.86%)
Reliance Ins. / Jan 15 Reliance Insurance Company Limited(RICL)	12 ▼ -0.85 (-6.61%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 15 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	50 ▼ -3.15 (-5.93%)
Zahid Jee Textile / Jan 15 Zahidjee Textile Mills Limited(ZAHID)	26.35 ▼ -1.65 (-5.89%)
Unicap Modaraba / Jan 15 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	2.92 ▼ -0.16 (-5.19%)
GOC (Pak) / Jan 15 GOC (Pak) Limited.(GOC)	67.52 ▼ -3.47 (-4.89%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 15 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	42,527,928 ▼ -0.07
Pak Refinery / Jan 15 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	41,500,012 ▲ 1.40
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 ▲ 0.01
Sui South Gas / Jan 15 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	26,679,632 ▼ -0.72
Hascol Petrol / Jan 15 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	26,398,810 ▼ -0.05
TRG Pak Ltd / Jan 15 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	23,380,246 ▲ 4.14
Telecard Limited / Jan 15 Telecard Limited(TELE)	19,836,175 ▼ -0.22
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 15 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	16,136,998 ▼ -0.28

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