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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

Size of provincial economies

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution has transferred more functions to the Provincial Governments and empowered...

Published 17 Aug, 2021 04:42am

Opinion

Understatement of rate of inflation

The rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been declining. It was 11.1 percent in April...

Published 10 Aug, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

Population Census of 2017: key findings

The PBS has recently released the detailed results of the 2017 Population and Housing Census. This enables analysis...

Published 03 Aug, 2021 04:35am

Opinion

Outlook for BoP

The month of June 2021 has seen a big deterioration in the current account (V/A) of the balance of payments (BoP). A...

Published 27 Jul, 2021 04:40am

Opinion

Growth in federal tax revenues

Federal tax revenues consist primarily of FBR revenues. In addition, they include other taxes like the gas...

Published 20 Jul, 2021 04:14am

Opinion

Mixed economic trends

The economy is in a state of flux and on the path of recovery after the Covid-19 attacks. This has led to some...

Published 13 Jul, 2021 03:22am

Opinion

Dip in the rate of inflation

The year 2020-21 has been an eventful year. The first attack of Covid-19 ebbed by early July 2020 but was followed ...

Published 06 Jul, 2021 03:48am

Opinion

Tackling poverty

One of the key questions today is what has happened to the incidence of poverty in 2020-21, a year which is new...

Published 29 Jun, 2021 03:24am

Opinion

A fragile federal budget — II

We now carry out an appraisal of the measures in the budget, starting with the enumeration of the key initiatives...

Published 24 Jun, 2021 03:36am

Opinion

A fragile federal budget — I

The Budget for 2021-22 has been presented and awaits parliamentary approval. This article is in two parts and...

Published 22 Jun, 2021 04:46am

Opinion

PES: surprises and inconsistencies

There are some very surprising and sometimes even conflicting estimates and gaps in the recently- released Pakistan...

Published 15 Jun, 2021 03:30am

Opinion

Economic targets for 2021-22

The Annual Plan Coordination Com-mittee has set the target for GDP growth of 4.8 percent for 2021-22 and the rate of...

Published 08 Jun, 2021 04:09am

Opinion

Factors impacting on FY22 budgets

There is a need to identify some of the factors which are likely to impact on the key budgetary magnitudes of the...

Published 01 Jun, 2021 04:59am

Opinion

GDP growth rate in 2019-20: The impact of Covid-19

The recent announcement by the National Accounts Committee of the growth rates of GDP for the year 2020/21 of just...

Published 31 May, 2021 03:12am

Opinion

Budgetary targets for 2021-22

The Federal budget for 2021-22 is currently under preparations. The date for presentation to the National assembly...

Published 25 May, 2021 04:40am

Opinion

State of provincial finances

The four provincial governments combined play an important role in the public finances of the country. They account...

Published 18 May, 2021 05:05am

Opinion

Budget strategy paper for FY2021-22

The Federal Budget for 2021-22 is likely to be presented on the 11th of June 2021. The Ministry of Finance must be...

Published 11 May, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

Medium-term budgetary strategy

The Medium-term Budgetary Strategy paper (MTBS) has been released recently by the Federal Ministry of Finance...

Published 04 May, 2021 04:26am

Opinion

Outlook for the BoP

The balance of payments (BoP) numbers for the first three quarters of 2020-21 have just been released by the SBP. By...

Published 27 Apr, 2021 03:02am

Opinion

Budgetary framework in IMF programme

The IMF Programme which remained suspended for almost one year has become operational once again. Effectively the...

Published 20 Apr, 2021 04:00am

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
Dow Jones / Jan 14	42,518.28
India Sensex / Jan 15	76,746.81
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 15	38,379.49
Hang Seng / Jan 15	19,223.49
FTSE 100 / Jan 15	8,250.76
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 15	20,345.48

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
First Elite Cap.Mod / Jan 15 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	6.67 ▲ 1.00 (17.64%)
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%)
Arif Habib Ltd. / Jan 15 Arif Habib Limited(AHL)	60.96 ▲ 5.54 (10.00%)
BF Biosciences / Jan 15 BF Biosciences Limited(BFBIO)	231.30 ▲ 21.03 (10.00%)
Dandot Cement / Jan 15 Dandot Cement Company Limited(DNCC)	14.74 ▲ 1.34 (10.00%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Jan 15 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	17.49 ▲ 1.59 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Fateh Ind. / Jan 15 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	120.60 ▼ -13.34 (-9.96%)
Idrees Tex. / Jan 15 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	13.50 ▼ -1.49 (-9.94%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Jan 15 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	34 ▼ -3.39 (-9.07%)
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Jan 15 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.07 ▼ -0.30 (-8.90%)
United Brands / Jan 15 United Brands Limited(UBDL)	21.03 ▼ -2.05 (-8.88%)
Sana Ind / Jan 15 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	30.50 ▼ -2.93 (-8.76%)
Universal Ins. / Jan 15 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	9.85 ▼ -0.94 (-8.71%)
Calcorp Ltd / Jan 15 Calcorp Limited(CASH)	29.10 ▼ -2.65 (-8.35%)
Diamond Ind. / Jan 15 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	18.23 ▼ -1.59 (-8.02%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 15 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	68,146,464 ▲ 0.02
Pak Refinery / Jan 15 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	56,632,089 ▲ 1.60
Cnergyico PK / Jan 15 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	43,068,457 ▼ -0.16
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 15 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	33,447,471 ▼ -0.07
TRG Pak Ltd / Jan 15 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	29,612,532 ▲ 2.51
Sui South Gas / Jan 15 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	26,679,632 ▼ -1.17
Hascol Petrol / Jan 15 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	26,398,810 ▼ -0.28
Telecard Limited / Jan 15 Telecard Limited(TELE)	19,836,175 ▼ -0.31
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 15 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	17,696,558 ▼ -0.32

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