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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

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

Opinion

Questionable IMF projections

The Staff Report of the IMF on the second to fifth reviews under the Extended Fund facility to Pakistan has just ...

Published 13 Apr, 2021 04:31am

Opinion

Outlook for inflation

The rate of inflation has risen sharply in the last two months. It had come down to 5.7 percent in January 2021....

Published 06 Apr, 2021 04:23am

Opinion

Some negative economic trends

There is growing perception that the economy has turned the corner and that the growth rate is picking up while the...

Published 30 Mar, 2021 05:45am

Opinion

Budgetary impact of SOEs

The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a report recently on the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The focus is...

Published 23 Mar, 2021 04:37am

Opinion

Rising inflation

Various price indices have risen exponentially in recent weeks. This trend is best revealed by the movement of the...

Published 16 Mar, 2021 04:43am

Opinion

Covid-19 and provincial finances

The focus of the consequences of Covid-19 on public finances has generally been at the Federal level. Some impacts...

Published 09 Mar, 2021 05:45am

Opinion

C/A: things have changed since Nov

There has been a state of euphoria about the external balance of payments of the country till recently. This has ...

Published 02 Mar, 2021 05:50am

Opinion

Raise in federal govt employees’ salaries

The federal cabinet has recently approved a special allowance to employees equal to 25 percent of the basic pay with...

Published 23 Feb, 2021 05:20am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 21	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 21	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 21	154.53
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 21	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 21	1.26
Euro to USD / Nov 21	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 21	5,948.71
India Sensex / Nov 21	77,155.79
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 21	38,026.17
Nasdaq / Nov 21	18,972.42
Hang Seng / Nov 21	19,601.11
FTSE 100 / Nov 21	8,149.27
Dow Jones / Nov 21	43,870.35
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 21	19,146.17

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 21	70.18
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 21	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 21	238,340
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 21	2,669.46
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 21	70.43
Petrol/Litre / Nov 22	248.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.15 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	620.68 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 22 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	69.40 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	115 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,084.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 22 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.35 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.15 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	620.68 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 22 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	69.40 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	115 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,084.82 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 22 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.35 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 22 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	95,563,962 ▲ 0.00
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Nov 22 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	51,499,190 ▲ 0.00
Kohinoor Spining / Nov 22 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	48,260,119 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 22 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	44,585,332 ▲ 0.00
Treet Battery / Nov 22 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	42,849,466 ▲ 0.00
Waves Home Appliances / Nov 22 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	41,650,133 ▲ 0.00
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Nov 22 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	33,841,692 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 22 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	25,303,681 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 22 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	25,120,112 ▲ 0.00

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