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IMF conditions

Govt’s interest payments to decrease by Rs1.5tn in FY25 as policy rate comes down: SBP chief

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Jameel Ahmad has said the decline in key policy rate will help the government...

Updated 17 Dec, 2024 09:04pm

Opinion

Lack of awareness of IMF conditions

Pakistan’s private sector elite in industry and the farm sectors, major non-institutional recipients of budgeted...

Updated 16 Dec, 2024 07:42am

Markets

Stay the course on reforms, IMF urges Pakistan

Remarks come as Pakistan delegation meets Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD) Director Jihad Azour on sidelines of IMF, World Bank annual meetings in Washington

Updated 22 Oct, 2024 10:53pm

Pakistan

Pakistan’s accelerated access to capital markets: Alvarez & Marsal team outlines steps

Alvarez & Marsal team has outlined steps for Pakistan to chart an accelerated path to international capital...

Updated 22 Oct, 2024 11:29pm

Fund sets 22 structural benchmarks and conditionalities

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set 22 structural benchmarks (SBs) and conditionalities for the...

Updated 12 Oct, 2024 09:38pm

Markets

Election outcome in Pakistan ‘may complicate’ new IMF deal: Fitch

Pakistan’s vulnerable external position means securing financing from multilateral and bilateral partners will be 'one of the most urgent issues on the agenda for the next government'

Updated 19 Feb, 2024 10:25pm

Pakistan

Forget growth for four years, follow IMF programme in letter and spirit to fix economy: Miftah Ismail

KARACHI: Pakistan has for the last two to three years approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and agreed to...

Published 17 Feb, 2024 10:27pm

BR Research

IMF and PDM 2.0

The new government will likely be formed under a PDM set up. Chances are that without public support, economic...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 08:49am

Markets

KSE-100 stages dramatic recovery after falling below 60k

Turns a corner after plunging over 1,450 points in opening few minutes of trading

Updated 13 Feb, 2024 09:35pm

Markets

IMF not onboard with energy ministry’s tariff rationalisation, circular debt management plans

Mission Chief Nathan Porter says circular debt ‘reduction plan’ entails fiscal risks given chain of transactions involved and would also continue use of supplementary grants

Updated 13 Feb, 2024 10:33pm

Pakistan

‘High chances of a coalition government’, says brokerage house as Pakistan braces for elections

Smooth transfer of power will help overcome concerns of international lenders, says Topline Securities

Published 27 Jan, 2024 04:59pm

Two ‘innovative’ power sector plans fail to attract MoF support

There are discussions that circular debt reduction plan should not be in conflict with pledges made to the IMF

Updated 26 Jan, 2024 09:53pm

Editorials

The IMF conditions

EDITORIAL: The statement by the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Islamabad on 23...

Published 28 Aug, 2023 06:27am

Business & Finance

Ministers, MPs and bureaucrats: UBG against making fuel, gas and electricity available free of charge

KARACHI: United Business Group (UBG) has said that the business community demands that, in order to meet the IMF...

Published 04 Aug, 2023 06:20am

Opinion

The indictment of monetary policy

The Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) documents uploaded on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) website this Tuesday ...

Published 24 Jul, 2023 06:11am

Opinion

Pakistan’s lifeline restored by IMF

Pakistan and IMF (International Monetary Fund) have reached a $3 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) to help the...

Updated 16 Jul, 2023 06:37am

IMF condition: Hike in gas prices on the cards

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is all set to hike the gas price to meet the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Updated 16 Jul, 2023 01:41pm

Pakistan

No official announcement on IMF programme made yet

IMF funding is crucial for country facing a balance-of-payments crisis

Updated 09 Feb, 2023 11:43pm

Pakistan

Nation to hear good news about IMF programme soon: Ishaq Dar

Finance minister says negotiations 'on track'

Updated 09 Feb, 2023 08:56pm

Pakistan

Pakistan, IMF grapple for consensus to unlock critical funding

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the visiting International Monetary Fund mission are struggling to arrive at a consensus on...

Published 06 Feb, 2023 09:54pm

Govt says ‘will have to’ agree to IMF conditions

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday the government would have to agree to IMF bailout conditions ...

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 09:26am

‘Rules’ allow banks to seek asset details of civil servants

ISLAMABAD: The “Sharing of Declaration of Assets of Civil Servants Rules, 2023” allows commercial banks to seek...

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 09:28am

Coalition partners deplore KP govt’s move

ISLAMABAD: The ruling coalition partners on Friday deplored the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government refusal to implement...

Updated 27 Aug, 2022 09:48am

Editorials

The challenge of rising inflation

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data on the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 24.9 percent...

Published 03 Aug, 2022 05:56am

IMF’s ‘pre-conditions’ already met, Senate panel told

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance was informed that all the prior conditions of the...

Updated 29 Jul, 2022 10:29am

Opinion

Economy: it’s too early to declare victory

This is apropos a Business Recorder news item “PM forewarns of ‘very tough’ IMF conditionalities” carried by...

Published 30 Jun, 2022 06:07am

Editorials

‘Very tough’ IMF conditionalities

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while laying the onus of an impending bankruptcy on the policies of the PTI...

Published 29 Jun, 2022 05:44am

Opinion

IMF adding to uncertainty

A few days ago, International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that key progress had been made in talks on the revival of...

Published 28 Jun, 2022 06:10am

Opinion

Primary versus budget deficit

Setting time bound quantitative targets for primary deficit, defined as minus interest and repayment of principal as...

Published 14 Mar, 2022 07:01am

Opinion

First leverage then renegotiation

The Khan administration maintains that a change in government will not reverse the rise in price of any single item...

Published 21 Feb, 2022 07:25am

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 22	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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