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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

Managing the BoP

Pakistan today faces an incipient financial crisis. Gross foreign exchange reserves of the SBP stand at $10.8 ...

Published 19 Apr, 2022 05:32am

Opinion

Pakistan’s trading partners

There have been questions raised on the extent to which foreign policy of Pakistan should reflect its trading...

Published 12 Apr, 2022 05:17am

Opinion

More and more bad news

Pakistan finds itself increasingly in a quagmire. The economy was hit severely first after March 2020 by the...

Published 05 Apr, 2022 05:38am

Opinion

External vulnerability index of countries

An External Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been constructed perhaps for the first time to highlight the variation in...

Published 29 Mar, 2022 05:49am

Opinion

Implications of the GDP rebasing

The Governing Council of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has approved the new GDP estimates, following the ...

Published 22 Mar, 2022 05:21am

Opinion

Wait-and-see policy of SBP

The latest Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) was issued by the SBP on the 8th of March. Since the Russian-Ukraine war...

Published 15 Mar, 2022 05:43am

Opinion

Rebasing of QIM

The base year of the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) for large-scale industrial units has been updated recently...

Published 08 Mar, 2022 05:15am

Opinion

Very fragile BoP

The balance of payments (BoP) numbers for the first seven months of 2021-22 have been released recently by the SBP...

Updated 01 Mar, 2022 10:07am

Opinion

IMF programme: Public finance targets

The IMF sixth review staff report published recently contains some ambitious targets for the public finances of the...

Published 22 Feb, 2022 04:43am

Opinion

IMF programme: projections, targets

The IMF Staff Review Report on the sixth review of the on-going IMF program was released on the 4th of February...

Published 15 Feb, 2022 06:45am

Opinion

GDP growth rate in 2020-21

The PBS has released the revised estimate of the GDP growth rate for 2020-21. It has increased to 5.57 percent from...

Published 08 Feb, 2022 06:10am

Opinion

Rebasing of national income

There is some very good news from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Following the exercise of rebasing of the...

Published 03 Feb, 2022 04:02am

Opinion

SBP’s optimism

The recent Monetary Policy Statement by the SBP has begun to remove apprehensions about the state of the economy and...

Published 01 Feb, 2022 04:07am

Opinion

Punjab: regional development

There has been a move recently towards the creation of the Province of South Punjab. This will, of course, require a...

Published 25 Jan, 2022 05:03am

Opinion

The rising govt debt

The SBP has released the data on the level of gross government debt as of the end of November 2021. It stands at Rs...

Published 18 Jan, 2022 04:20am

Opinion

Current economic trends

The first six months of 2021-22 have come to an end. This is an appropriate time to identify the ongoing economic...

Published 11 Jan, 2022 06:33am

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

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 17	278.60
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 17	278.60
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 17	153.56
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 17	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 17	1.27
Euro to USD / Dec 17	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 17	6,050.61
India Sensex / Dec 17	80,684.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 17	39,164.26
Nasdaq / Dec 17	20,109.06
Hang Seng / Dec 17	19,815.30
FTSE 100 / Dec 17	8,195.20
Dow Jones / Dec 17	43,449.90
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 17	20,246.37

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 17	70.11
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 17	17,585
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 17	241,860
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 17	2,644.07
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 17	68.53
Petrol/Litre / Dec 18	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
LSE Capital / Dec 18 LSE Capital Limited(LSECL)	6.70 ▲ 1.00 (17.54%)
Shaheen Ins. / Dec 18 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	7.07 ▲ 0.98 (16.09%)
Dadabhoy Cement / Dec 18 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	7.90 ▲ 0.79 (11.11%)
Gulshan Sp. / Dec 18 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.50 ▲ 0.45 (11.11%)
Tri-Star Power / Dec 18 Tri-Star Power Limited(TSPL)	5.96 ▲ 0.58 (10.78%)
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 18 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	11.06 ▲ 1.01 (10.05%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 18 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.50 ▲ 1.05 (10.05%)
Data Agro / Dec 18 Data Agro Limited(DAAG)	139.24 ▲ 12.66 (10.00%)
Pak Datacom / Dec 18 Pak Datacom Limited(PAKD)	103.94 ▲ 9.45 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Dewan Textile / Dec 18 Dewan Textile Mills Limited(DWTM)	5.67 ▼ -0.77 (-11.96%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 18 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	37.76 ▼ -4.20 (-10.01%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 18 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	29.12 ▼ -3.23 (-9.98%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 18 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	64.12 ▼ -6.97 (-9.80%)
Hafiz Ltd. / Dec 18 Hafiz Limited(HAFL)	199 ▼ -20.05 (-9.15%)
Mari Petroleum / Dec 18 Mari Petroleum Company Limited(MARI)	742 ▼ -67.76 (-8.37%)
Fateh Sports / Dec 18 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	80 ▼ -7.22 (-8.28%)
J.K.Spinning / Dec 18 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	60 ▼ -5.00 (-7.69%)
Macter Int. Ltd / Dec 18 Macter International Limited(MACTER)	341 ▼ -27.22 (-7.39%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	151,921,663 ▼ -0.03
Pak Elektron / Dec 18 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	107,502,606 ▲ 0.99
Cnergyico PK / Dec 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	58,285,174 ▼ -0.03
B.O.Punjab / Dec 18 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	57,202,972 ▲ 0.34
Pak Refinery / Dec 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	55,973,468 ▲ 1.13
Sui South Gas / Dec 18 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	42,923,281 ▲ 2.02
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Dec 18 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	36,897,118 ▲ 0.43
Hub Power Co. / Dec 18 The Hub Power Company Limited(HUBC)	33,289,968 ▲ 1.52
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	31,365,092 ▲ 0.03

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