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Waqar Masood Khan

Opinion

Economic developments and business confidence

We have a mixed bag of economic developments. The foreign trade data for October shows encouraging signs. The ...

Published 11 Nov, 2022 05:54am

Opinion

Global economy and challenges for Pakistan

The following two paragraphs from the World Economic Outlook, October 2022, neatly sum up the challenges facing the...

Published 03 Nov, 2022 05:50am

Opinion

Emerging economic stability

The balance of payments (BOP) for the first quarter Jul-Sep is encouraging for the stability of the economy. There...

Published 26 Oct, 2022 05:52am

Opinion

Money market and debt management

Money market has been behaving quite unusually. The standard theory suggests the yield curve on the bills and bonds...

Published 12 Oct, 2022 05:46am

Opinion

1Q: Economic performance

In our last article we had expressed the hope of potential turnaround in the economy. Some early data for the month...

Published 05 Oct, 2022 05:49am

Opinion

Emerging economic trends

We have nearly full data for the first two months of the fiscal year. The level of expenditures, tax collections,...

Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am

Opinion

FY2022-23: Balance of payments

The continuing turmoil in the forex market is a bewildering experience with no parallel in the country’s history....

Published 21 Sep, 2022 05:57am

Opinion

The continuing drift

The trade data for the month of August has revealed continuing challenges to macroeconomic framework. It is shocking...

Published 07 Sep, 2022 04:13am

Opinion

A drifting economy

It is quite distressful to see the nascent economic recovery ceding way to the same uncertainty and drift that...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 05:50am

Opinion

Fiscal performance in 2021-22

The results of fiscal operations for 2021-22 have been released. It is a spectacle of one of the worst fiscal...

Published 24 Aug, 2022 05:08am

Opinion

FY2023: An auspicious start

Around mid-July, Pak-istan witnessed most volatile conditions in the forex market. Political turmoil, delays in...

Published 11 Aug, 2022 04:35am

Opinion

Forex market turmoil and possibility of default

On 18th July 22, the country witnessed an unprecedented turmoil in the forex market. Dashing all expectations of...

Published 27 Jul, 2022 05:23am

Opinion

Economic round-up 2021-22

The just concluded fiscal year has been tumultuous. It was both economics and politics that made it extraordinary,...

Updated 20 Jul, 2022 10:50am

Opinion

An elusive IMF programme

One can say with reasonable confidence that the economic circumstances facing today have no parallel in the history...

Published 13 Jul, 2022 05:48am

Opinion

Budget 2022-23 – Amended

In our previous article (BR: 13- 6-2022) we had examined Budget 2022-23 from the point of view of the IMF...

Published 29 Jun, 2022 05:44am

Opinion

Budget 2022-23 and the IMF programme

There are any number of ways in which a budget can be characterized. Terms, such as, pro-poor, investors’ ...

Published 14 Jun, 2022 05:56am

Opinion

Fiscal affairs and Constitution – II

In Part-I we had outlined the basic framework governing the budgetary affairs in the constitution. Let us reiterate...

Updated 08 Jun, 2022 08:09pm

Opinion

Fiscal affairs and Constitution

Ghalib once remarked that (In my construct, there is an element of malady). The genesis of fiscal malaise originates...

Published 01 Jun, 2022 05:53am

Opinion

A fiscal quagmire: genesis

In the last article, many readers felt that there was no explanation as to how we came to this pass and what ...

Published 25 May, 2022 04:40am

Opinion

A fiscal quagmire?

A few days ago, Ministry of Finance released the details of fiscal operations covering three quarters Jul-Mar...

Published 11 May, 2022 04:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 31	279.03
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 31	278.88
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 31	155.19
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 31	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 31	1.24
Euro to USD / Jan 31	1.04

Stock	Volume
Hang Seng / Jan 30	20,225.11
S&P 500 / Jan 31	6,040.53
India Sensex / Jan 31	77,500.57
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 31	39,572.49
Nasdaq / Jan 31	19,627.44
FTSE 100 / Jan 31	8,673.96
Dow Jones / Jan 31	44,544.66
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 31	21,732.05

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 31	72.53
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 31	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 31	250,171
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 31	2,798.41
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 31	65.88
Petrol/Litre / Feb 2	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Kohinoor Ind. / Jan 31 Kohinoor Industries Limited(KOIL)	10.21 ▲ 1 (10.86%)
IGI Life Ins / Jan 31 IGI Life Insurance Limited(IGIL)	15.13 ▲ 1.38 (10.04%)
Sana Ind / Jan 31 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	28.77 ▲ 2.62 (10.02%)
Tariq Corporation / Jan 31 Tariq Corporation Limited(TCORP)	16.91 ▲ 1.54 (10.02%)
I.C.C. Ind. / Jan 31 ICC Industries Limited(ICCI)	15.72 ▲ 1.43 (10.01%)
Redco Textile / Jan 31 Redco Textiles Limited(REDCO)	24.17 ▲ 2.2 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 31 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	53.74 ▲ 4.89 (10.01%)
Pak Leather / Jan 31 Pak Leather Crafts Limited(PAKL)	32.63 ▲ 2.97 (10.01%)
Dandot Cement / Jan 31 Dandot Cement Company Limited(DNCC)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Blue-Ex Ltd / Jan 31 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	54.86 ▼ -6.1 (-10.01%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 31 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	63 ▼ -7 (-10%)
First Imrooz Mod. / Jan 31 First Imrooz Modaraba(FIMM)	189 ▼ -21 (-10%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jan 31 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	10.41 ▼ -1.15 (-9.95%)
National Silk / Jan 31 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	40.84 ▼ -4.51 (-9.94%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Jan 31 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	7.83 ▼ -0.76 (-8.85%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 31 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	109.56 ▼ -10.44 (-8.7%)
Kohinoor Mills / Jan 31 Kohinoor Mills Limited(KML)	31.05 ▼ -2.9 (-8.54%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jan 31 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.28 ▼ -0.66 (-8.31%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 31 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	66,672,997 ▲ 0.14
Sui South Gas / Jan 31 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	48,364,956 ▼ -1.33
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 31 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	36,344,486 ▼ -0.06
Waves Home Appliances / Jan 31 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	33,226,540 ▼ -0.77
Bank Makramah / Jan 31 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	31,509,642 ▲ 0.04
B.O.Punjab / Jan 31 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	17,873,860 ▲ 0.2
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 31 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	16,969,744 ▼ -0.07
Pak Refinery / Jan 31 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,492,313 ▼ -0.57
Treet Battery / Jan 31 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	15,390,342 ▲ 1.07

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