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EPCL: record profits

With double digit growth in the top line and a triple digit jump in the bottom line, Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited

Updated 01 Feb, 2019 07:09am

Chemicals

Corrosion — the silent menace

Every year, corrosion costs about $3.4 trillion globally, not including the cost of lives and jobs. This adds up to 3 to

Published 28 Nov, 2018 04:40am

Chemicals

ICI 1QFY19

Similar to past trends, ICI’s top-line was led by the polyester division which increased by 27 percent and soda ash busi

Published 29 Oct, 2018 06:31am

Chemicals

US PET market saved?

A frequent complaint by various sectors is that the NTC takes so long in determining and implementing anti-dumping dutie

Published 23 Oct, 2018 06:23am

Chemicals

Lotte Chemicals – continue to grow

Lotte Chemicals continues on its strong trajectory of rise in sales and profit. With a nearly 50 percent jump in the top

Published 22 Oct, 2018 06:40am

Chemicals

Ethanol’s potential for exports

While there are various uses of sugarcane other than making white sugar, one of the highest potential ones is ethanol. P

Published 18 Oct, 2018 05:50am

Chemicals

Ethanol’s potential for exports

While there are various uses of sugarcane other than making white sugar, one of the highest potential ones is ethanol. P

Published 18 Oct, 2018 05:44am

Chemicals

PET: looking towards greener pastures

As expected, the United States of America have slapped tariffs of about 44 percent to 60 percent on Pakistan’s exports o

Published 05 Oct, 2018 06:46am

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On Nestle’s newest PET packaging

There was a time when the then nascent packaged dairy and juice industry in the country couldn’t stop touting the benefi

Updated 03 Sep, 2018 11:26am

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AkzoNobel profits

AkzoNobel Pakistan (PSX: AKZO) has posted lackluster results with the modest growth in the top-line being offset by a hi

Published 31 Aug, 2018 09:04am

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GLAXO: bullish despite challenges

Those who say ‘no good deed goes unrewarded’ have surely not paid attention to Pakistan’s pharma industry. For years, MN

Published 15 Aug, 2018 06:57am

Chemicals

Lotte’s jump in profits

Lotte has posted strong financials for 1HCY18 with the bottom line nearly quadrupling YoY. The jump in profits was drive

Published 08 Aug, 2018 05:34am

Chemicals

FFC rallies on price increase

The heydays of fertilizer’s dominance looked over last year. Depressed urea prices subdued sector profitability despite

Updated 02 Aug, 2018 09:35am

Chemicals

Archroma’s eroding margins

Sometimes top-line growth doesn’t lead to higher profitability, as in the case of Archroma Pakistan. In the first quarte

Published 31 Jul, 2018 06:56am

Chemicals

Urea off-take slows in June

The monthly urea off-take for June 2018 slid by a massive 43 percent year-on-year, as per the latest statistics released

Published 26 Jul, 2018 07:02am

Chemicals

Chemical’s contradictory trends

Despite an increasing contribution to exports, Pakistan’s nascent chemical sector is on a downturn. A small part of the

Published 20 Jul, 2018 06:58am

Chemicals

Decline is sulphuric acid production

Pakistan is mostly self-sufficient in the production of inorganic chemicals such as sulphuric acid, with the surplus exp

Published 21 Jun, 2018 06:46am

Chemicals

Setting up the basics – chemical sector

When Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India, he undertook a number of measures to support India’s import substit

Published 05 Jun, 2018 05:16am

Chemicals

PET Exports – winsome, lose some

The latest episode in the exports of PET to the EU marks another victory for Pakistan as the WTO rejected the appeal and

Published 18 May, 2018 06:56am

Chemicals

ICI continues its growth trajectory

ICI continued its double digit growth path for the current financial year with higher revenue across all business divisi

Published 25 Apr, 2018 05:53am

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Lotte Chem - profits on the rise

Driven by healthier by healthier PTA margins, Lotte Chemical’s top line and bottom line rose by double digits in the lat

Published 23 Apr, 2018 05:40am

Chemicals

Scrap plastic contamination

People living in this country must have developed really strong immune systems, not out of improved nutrition or better

Updated 21 Mar, 2018 07:04am

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Tackling traffic congestion

As Lahore grows in every direction possible, traffic congestion has become a regular occurrence on most thoroughfares in

Updated 05 Mar, 2018 07:03am

Chemicals

Lotte’s profits jump

Lotte’s top line grew sluggishly despite higher demand and higher international PTA prices. Though its bottom line grew

Published 07 Feb, 2018 06:29am

Chemicals

EPCL’s continued growth

In line with its growth trajectory since 2016, Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited ended the calendar year with a bang

Published 01 Feb, 2018 05:39am

Chemicals

ICI’s mixed results

Though ICI's top line saw a double digit growth, the momentum did not result in an increase in the bottom line. ICI has

Published 25 Jan, 2018 05:35am

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Petrochemicals and CPEC

The investment starved chemical sector received a boost when Engro Polymer announced its investment plans to the tune of

Published 09 Jan, 2018 06:43am

Chemicals

Petrochemicals in review

Petrochemicals are the key building blocks for the manufacture of a wide variety of goods, from clothes to construction,

Published 04 Jan, 2018 06:28am

Chemicals

Revival of the chemical sector

Though trade deficit has climbed 29 percent in 5MFY19 year-on-year numbers with imports nearly five times the increase i

Published 29 Dec, 2017 06:54am

Chemicals

End of PET exports?

Pakistan’s plastics exports have seen their fortune decline since their peak in 2011 when they crossed the half a billio

Updated 21 Dec, 2017 08:34am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 26	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 26	278.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 24	157.14
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 24	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 24	1.04

Stock	Volume
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
S&P 500 / Dec 24	6,040.04
Nasdaq / Dec 24	20,031.13
Hang Seng / Dec 24	20,098.29
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,136.99
Dow Jones / Dec 24	43,297.03
France CAC40 / Dec 24	7,282.69
India Sensex / Dec 26	78,475.29

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 24	70.10
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 24	240,487.70
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 24	2,616.87
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 24	68.78
Petrol/Litre / Dec 26	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 26	17,785

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Capital Equities / Dec 26 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	6.10 ▲ 1.00 (19.61%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 26 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	6.99 ▲ 1.00 (16.69%)
Next Capital / Dec 26 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	9.90 ▲ 1.00 (11.24%)
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	16.45 ▲ 1.50 (10.03%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 26 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	15.81 ▲ 1.44 (10.02%)
Dewan Motors / Dec 26 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	42.21 ▲ 3.84 (10.01%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 26 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	44.96 ▲ 4.09 (10.01%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 26 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	99.06 ▲ 9.01 (10.01%)
Altern Energy / Dec 26 Altern Energy Limited(ALTN)	22.65 ▲ 2.06 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Jauharabad Sug / Dec 26 Jauharabad Sugar Mills Limited(JSML)	23.10 ▼ -2.57 (-10.01%)
Mughal Energy / Dec 26 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	18.45 ▼ -2.05 (-10.00%)
Fateh Ind. / Dec 26 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	120.56 ▼ -13.38 (-9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 26 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	36.01 ▼ -3.99 (-9.98%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 26 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.54 ▼ -1.50 (-9.97%)
Arctic Textile / Dec 26 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	21.60 ▼ -2.37 (-9.89%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Dec 26 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	12.25 ▼ -1.22 (-9.06%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 26 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	24 ▼ -2.33 (-8.85%)
Equity Modaraba / Dec 26 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3 ▼ -0.29 (-8.81%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	127,408,831 ▼ -0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	93,301,142 ▲ 1.50
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	46,900,564 ▲ 6.41
Sui South Gas / Dec 26 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,559,500 ▼ -1.65
Cnergyico PK / Dec 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	33,367,944 ▼ -0.16
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	30,254,338 ▼ -0.19
B.O.Punjab / Dec 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	30,003,113 ▼ -0.11
Hascol Petrol / Dec 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	27,155,152 ▲ 0.87
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 26 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	26,980,436 ▲ 0.09

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