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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

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

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

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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