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All eyes on G20 for breakthrough as COP29 climate talks stall

BAKU: Negotiations were deadlocked Saturday at the midway point of the UN climate summit, with hopes pinned on G20...

Published 17 Nov, 2024 05:10am

World

China says Xi to travel to Peru, Brazil next week for APEC, G20 meetings

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for meetings of APEC and the G20,...

Published 08 Nov, 2024 01:33pm

Opinion

Climate risk – is the climate action enough?

50 years from now, what would the world look like if climate risk is not managed? That could be a world with more...

Updated 07 Nov, 2024 07:15am

World

As poor nations’ default wave peaks, cash shortage could take its place

LONDON: The punishing post-COVID wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka...

Updated 22 Oct, 2024 04:31pm

Business & Finance

G20 financial chiefs to flag global economic ‘soft landing’

RIO DE JANEIRO: G20 financial leaders will say on Friday there is a rising likelihood of a global economic “soft...

Published 27 Jul, 2024 06:16am

World

G20 seeks common ground on taxing super-rich

RIO DE JANEIRO: G20 finance ministers are expected to take a first step towards international cooperation on taxing...

Published 26 Jul, 2024 11:07pm

World

In Rio, G20 finance ministers to mull taxing the super-rich

RIO DE JANEIRO: Faced with growing global inequality, G20 finance ministers meeting Thursday in Rio de Janeiro will...

Published 26 Jul, 2024 07:29am

World

US sees no need for global deal to tax super-rich: Yellen

RIO DE JANEIRO: The United States sees no need to negotiate an international agreement on taxing the super-wealthy,...

Published 25 Jul, 2024 10:58pm

World

Lula rallies G20 nations against world hunger ahead of meeting

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday urged world leaders to work together and...

Published 24 Jul, 2024 10:15pm

World

Tax the super-rich, ex-leaders tell G20

BRASILIA: Former presidents and prime ministers have sent an open letter to current leaders of the world’s 20...

Published 12 Jul, 2024 05:48am

Business & Finance

Failure to tax world’s richest means global tax needed

PARIS: The failure of rich countries to tax the world’s billionaires has made it necessary to introduce a global...

Updated 27 Jun, 2024 08:50am

World

Global warming will ‘decimate’ G20 economies without unity: UN climate head

LONDON: UN climate chief Simon Stiell on Wednesday warned G20 nations their economies face decimation and they must...

Published 10 Apr, 2024 07:46pm

Business & Finance

Shocks in G20 emerging economies hit rich-world growth: IMF

LONDON: Domestic shocks in emerging economies in the G20 are increasingly impacting growth in the rich world,...

Published 10 Apr, 2024 02:16am

Business & Finance

Zambia’s debt-rework battle scars mar its Common Framework success

LONDON: Zambia’s deal with bondholders this week suggests it will finally emerge from more than three years in...

Published 30 Mar, 2024 04:58am

World

G20 finance leaders still at odds over language on Gaza, Ukraine

SAO PAULO: Finance leaders of the G20 major countries are still discussing how to describe the wars in Ukraine and...

Published 01 Mar, 2024 02:59am

World

IMF urges G20 cooperation on climate, global AI principles

SAO PAULO: Medium-term global growth prospects are the weakest in decades, but G20 major economies could boost ...

Published 27 Feb, 2024 03:06am

World

Broad G20 support for two-state solution in Middle East: Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil said Thursday that the Group of 20 nations, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, broadly backs a...

Published 23 Feb, 2024 12:03am

World

Russia says G20 Ukraine discussion is ‘destructive’

The inclusion of the topic of Ukraine at the Group of 20 meetings is destructive and the politicisation of the Group...

Published 21 Feb, 2024 11:55am

Business & Finance

Global regulators make tackling non-bank leverage a priority for 2024

LONDON: Tackling hidden leverage across the multi-trillion dollar “shadow banking” sector is next year’s...

Published 21 Dec, 2023 03:54am

Opinion

Unveiling the malaise and despondency

The recent success on IMF (International Monetary Fund) funding, a bullish stock market, the rupee value stabilizing...

Published 09 Dec, 2023 05:46am

World

Putin to give Russian view on world situation at G20 virtual summit: Kremlin

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday that President Vladimir Putin will set out Russia’s view of what it sees as the...

Published 20 Nov, 2023 03:01pm

World

Blinken in India for talks on China, Israel

NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks Friday in New Delhi seeking to bolster India as a...

Published 10 Nov, 2023 02:30pm

Opinion

Important global economic challenges

Decades of neoliberal assault of advocating greater market fundamentalism, and lesser government regulation produced...

Updated 20 Oct, 2023 06:33am

Opinion

The fossil fuel folly: damned if you have it; damned if you don’t

The world stands at a crossroads, facing a dilemma of unparalleled proportions: the consumption of fossil fuels. In...

Updated 05 Oct, 2023 06:57am

Opinion

IMF’s policy needs deeper political economic thinking

‘“Escalating protests in Pakistan against rising costs linked to IMF demands, which follow similar protests in...

Published 02 Oct, 2023 07:03am

Editorials

Durable solution

EDITORIAL: Yet another Pakistani prime minister hit the nail on the head – caretaker PM Kakar this time – as he...

Published 24 Sep, 2023 03:21am

Opinion

The changing world order: a perspective

Driven by spectacular economic excellence and independence of countries, which for years remained subjugated under...

Updated 23 Sep, 2023 06:20am

Pakistan

ACCA Global G20 Survey: ‘Accountants have major role to play in reducing corruption’

KARACHI: The global ‘Biennial G20 Public Trust in Tax Survey’ conducted by ACCA (Association of Chartered...

Published 21 Sep, 2023 06:08am

Opinion

G20 summit a big moment for India?

Riding on the success of the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on moon, India hosted a BRICS meeting and soon thereafter a ...

Published 16 Sep, 2023 03:03am

Perspectives

Talking about billions?: don’t count your chickens before they hatch

It has been a decade since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which brought with it promises...

Published 14 Sep, 2023 06:47pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 18	277.93
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 18	277.73
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 18	154.71
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 18	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 18	1.26
Euro to USD / Nov 18	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 15	5,870.62
Nasdaq / Nov 15	18,680.12
FTSE 100 / Nov 15	8,063.61
Dow Jones / Nov 15	43,444.99
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 15	19,210.81
France CAC40 / Nov 15	7,269.63
India Sensex / Nov 18	77,426.82
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 18	38,220.85

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 15	233,371.60
Petrol/Litre / Nov 18	248.38
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 18	67.17
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 18	18,085
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 18	2,583.36
Diesel/Litre / Nov 18	255.14

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.33 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	609.73 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	56.65 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	115.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,008.83 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.43 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.33 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	609.73 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	56.65 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	115.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,008.83 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.43 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	77,999,077 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 18 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	70,721,702 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 18 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	55,501,231 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	36,884,955 ▲ 0.00
Sui South Gas / Nov 18 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	36,294,630 ▲ 0.00
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Nov 18 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	32,226,742 ▲ 0.00
TRG Pak Ltd / Nov 18 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	29,018,611 ▲ 0.00
Pak Int.Bulk / Nov 18 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	22,405,457 ▲ 0.00
Treet Battery / Nov 18 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	21,319,898 ▲ 0.00

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