SBP-held foreign exchange reserves fall $110mn, now stand at $8.04bn Reserves held by central bank decrease for third straight week Updated 10 Aug, 2023 08:31pm
Pakistan Pakistan’s remittances clock in at just over $2bn in July Inflow 7.3% lower on monthly basis Updated 10 Aug, 2023 06:48pm
Opinion IMF programme targets A typical IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme, including a Stand-by Facility, has a set of quantitative... Published 08 Aug, 2023 06:37am
Markets SBP-held foreign exchange reserves fall $32mn, now stand at $8.15bn Reserves decrease on account of debt repayments Published 03 Aug, 2023 07:35pm
Opinion IMF’s SBF The IMF Stand-By Facility (SBF) of $3 billion has been in operation for two weeks now. Already, there is a big... Published 01 Aug, 2023 06:19am
Markets SBP-held foreign exchange reserves fall $541mn, stand at $8.19bn Reserves fall on weekly basis due to due to external debt repayments, says central bank Updated 27 Jul, 2023 10:49pm
Opinion A mood of despondency has set in The incumbent government has borrowed $10.844 billion from multiple financing sources including $2.206 billion from... Published 25 Jul, 2023 06:20am
Opinion Managing the BoP The balance of payments (BoP) figures for the full-year, 2022-23, have just been released by the SBP. They reflect... Updated 25 Jul, 2023 06:52am
Markets As expected, SBP-held foreign exchange reserves increase $4.2bn, now stand at $8.73bn Total liquid foreign reserves now stand at $14.07 billion Updated 20 Jul, 2023 09:35pm
Business & Finance Our prudent management resulted in CA surplus: Dar ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has stated that last fiscal year -2022-23 has been closed with a current... Published 19 Jul, 2023 03:21am
Markets SBP-held foreign exchange reserves rise $61mn, stand at $4.52bn Receipts from IMF, Saudi Arabia, UAE to be reflected in next week’s data Published 13 Jul, 2023 07:21pm
Markets SBP-held foreign exchange reserves rise $533mn, stand at $4.07bn Increase comes on back of realisation of $300 million proceeds of government of Pakistan’s commercial loan Published 03 Jul, 2023 09:06pm
Markets SBP-held foreign exchange reserves fall $482mn, stand at $3.54bn Receipts of $300mn from China to be reflected in next week’s data, says central bank Published 22 Jun, 2023 08:16pm
Markets Pakistan receives $1bn from China: SBP Inflow is the same amount paid back to China earlier Updated 16 Jun, 2023 11:25pm
Markets After six weeks: SBP-held foreign exchange reserves rise $107mn, now stand at $4.02bn Central bank gives no reason behind increase Published 15 Jun, 2023 06:18pm
Markets Alarming: SBP-held foreign exchange reserves fall another $179mn, now stand at $3.91bn Fall comes due to external debt repayments Updated 08 Jun, 2023 11:50pm
Opinion Dar’s optimism Finance minister Ishaq Dar deserves praise for showing a great deal of optimism amid the current economic slump and... Published 28 May, 2023 03:34am
Opinion Govt in a state of denial Prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and finance minister Ishaq Dar have been telling the nation — day in, day out —... Published 28 Apr, 2023 06:08am
Editorials C/A surplus: little to celebrate? EDITORIAL: The country registered a current account surplus of 654 million dollars for March 2023 — the first... Updated 28 Apr, 2023 12:35am
Opinion Options to address rising inflation The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) is trying to check inflation through just one instrument, the interest rate, based... Published 26 Apr, 2023 06:15am
Business & Finance Public debt increases to Rs52.721trn by Dec 2022 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s public debt has increased to Rs 52.721 trillion by December 2022 from Rs 49.194 trillion end... Published 01 Apr, 2023 06:21am
Opinion Prosperity: criticality of private sector “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” - John Maynard Keynes Innovation is... Published 19 Mar, 2023 03:33am
Opinion Past the point of no return! For weeks noted economists and economic researchers have cited numerous indicators, like low foreign exchange... Updated 02 Mar, 2023 06:51am
Markets Minor relief: SBP-held foreign exchange reserves rise $276mn, now stand at $3.19bn Total liquid foreign reserves held by the country clock in at $8.7 billion Published 16 Feb, 2023 07:51pm
Business & Finance Foreign exchange reserves: Tola underscores need for ‘charter of economy’ LAHORE: Minister of State and Chairman, Reforms and Resource Mobilization Committee Ashfaq Tola has said that the... Published 14 Feb, 2023 05:58am
Print Forex reserves fall below $3bn on debt repayments KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves further shrunk by $202 million during the last ... Updated 10 Feb, 2023 08:54am
Business & Finance SBP’s foreign exchange reserves up KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) foreign exchange reserves rose by $258 million during the last week.... Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:10am
Pakistan Pakistan to take fiscal measures set by IMF to meet budgetary targets: Dar Measures include reviewing subsidies in the farming and export sectors and shedding energy sector debt Updated 11 Jan, 2023 07:23pm
Print Pakistan repays over $1bn external debt KARACHI: The country has successfully repaid over one-billion-dollar external debt to international financial... Updated 08 Jan, 2023 11:26am
Opinion A bumper wheat crop in sight It is heartening to note that the country is expecting a bumper harvest of wheat. According to Federal Minister for... Published 30 Dec, 2022 05:50am