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Obama defends Internet snooping program

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama sought Monday to allay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting compari

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:43pm

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Mysterious Steve Jobs emails hang over Apple trial

NEW YORK: The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.A fede

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:42pm

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Soymeal eases on favourable US crop weather

ROTTERDAM: Soymeal on the European meals and feeds market continued to fall on Monday in sympathy with CBOT soymeal futu

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:38pm

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Cocoa sinks for third day, ICE sugar inches up after rally

NEW YORK/LONDON: Cocoa futures fell on Monday, as technical selling resulted in the market's sharpest three-session

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:36pm

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Corn jumps 2 percent on soaring cash markets

CHICAGO: Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn futures leaped over 2 percent on Monday, posting the biggest one-day advance

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:32pm

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Beef demand drives up US live cattle futures

CHICAGO: Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose on Monday driven in part by a five-year high in weekly US

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:30pm

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Gold slips as US equities rise, FOMC in focus

NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold fell around 0.5 percent in quiet trade on Monday as a Wall Street rally reduced the need for safe-

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:27pm

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Euro climbs to session high vs dollar; dollar pares gains vs yen

NEW YORK: The euro climbed to a session high against the dollar on Monday while the US currency pared gains against the

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:26pm

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US dollar gains vs yen on stock bounce, Fed meeting

NEW YORK: The US dollar climbed against the yen for the first time in five sessions on Monday, as stock markets rallied

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:23pm

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Brent crude oil dips before US Fed meeting

NEW YORK: Brent crude oil futures touched a 10-week high close to $107 a barrel on Monday as tensions in the Middle East

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:08pm

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Bond prices fall on jitters over Fed bond buying

NEW YORK: US longer-dated government debt prices fell on Monday a day before the Federal Reserve meets for a two-day pol

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:06pm

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Shares rally as Fed meeting nears, dollar firms

NEW YORK: Global equity markets rose and the dollar strengthened against the yen on Monday on expectations the Federal R

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:04pm

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Metals, oil down ahead of Fed meeting; natgas jumps

NEW YORK: Copper closed a touch lower on Monday on concerns the United States may scale back its monetary stimulus progr

Published 17 Jun, 2013 11:01pm

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Fed hopes buoy TSX as bank, energy shares climb

TORONTO: Canada's main stock index jumped on Monday as hopes that this week's Federal Reserve meeting would reaf

Published 17 Jun, 2013 10:59pm

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C$ dips as data boosts greenback before Fed meeting

TORONTO: The Canadian dollar softened marginally against the US dollar on Monday with the greenback gathering strength o

Published 17 Jun, 2013 10:57pm

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US cash crude differentials weaken as Brent/US arb narrows

NEW YORK: Cash crude differentials in the United States weakened on Monday as the transatlantic spread between Brent and

Published 17 Jun, 2013 10:56pm

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ICE cotton futures sink on long liquidation, profit taking

NEW YORK: ICE cotton futures tumbled on Monday, as investors took profits after last week's steep gains when prices

Published 17 Jun, 2013 10:53pm

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SHC stays Dr Khalid's appointment as Civil Hospital MS

HYDERABAD: Sindh High Court Hyderabad Circuit Bench has stayed the appointment of Dr Khalid Qureshi as the Medical Super

Published 17 Jun, 2013 08:24pm

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New Iran leader is ayatollah 'puppet': Canada's Baird

OTTAWA: Canada's top diplomat accused newly-elected Iranian president Hassan Rowhani on Monday of being a "puppet" o

Published 17 Jun, 2013 08:20pm

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Bulgarian protesters keep up pressure on new PM to resign

SOFIA: Thousands of angry Bulgarians took to the streets on Monday in a fourth day of protests demanding the resignation

Published 17 Jun, 2013 08:14pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 23	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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