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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

Editorials

Rise in home remittances

EDITORIAL: The State Bank of Pakistan website revealed a 39 percent rise in remittance inflows for the first quarter...

Published 14 Oct, 2024 07:00am

Pakistan

Aurangzeb says Pakistan has secured debt rollover commitments from China, Saudi Arabia and UAE

Development gives boost to economy that awaits Executive Board approval from the IMF ahead of $7-billion bailout

Updated 06 Aug, 2024 10:25pm

IMF to approve $7bn EFF by end of month: Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Thursday that the government wants investment and not aid...

Updated 02 Aug, 2024 09:55am

Pakistan

Govt adamant on bringing agriculture into tax net: Aurangzeb

Finance Minister says every segment has to play its part

Updated 30 Jul, 2024 10:14pm

Pakistan

Fitch upgrades Pakistan rating to ‘CCC+’

Upgrade reflects greater certainty over continued availability of external funding, says credit rating agency

Updated 29 Jul, 2024 07:43pm

Markets

PBC questions govt’s ambitious $65bn export target

The Pakistan Business Council (PBC), the country’s largest corporate sector advocacy platform, has raised concerns...

Published 23 Jul, 2024 07:27pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan not yet on agenda of IMF meetings

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not yet included Pakistan on the agenda of its executive board...

Updated 23 Jul, 2024 09:29am

Markets

Majority expect reduction in key policy rate in upcoming MPC meeting, AHL survey finds

Brokerage house sees 100bps cut in meeting reportedly set to be held on July 29 (Monday)

Updated 22 Jul, 2024 10:56pm

Opinion

Old wine in new bottles

The incumbent government, as all earlier ones, is jubilant over securing a staff-level agreement with International...

Updated 19 Jul, 2024 07:04am

Pakistan

Talks on new programme continuing virtually with Pakistan, says IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said talks are “continuing virtually” with authorities in Islamabad towards...

Updated 07 Jun, 2024 10:54pm

Business & Finance

IMF’s EFF: Notable progress made towards reaching SLA

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Pakistani authorities made significant progress towards...

Published 25 May, 2024 05:32am

Markets

Brokerage house AHL expects KSE-100 to provide upside of 24% in FY24

AHL says KSE-100 could power past 56,000 level by June 2024

Updated 15 Jul, 2023 11:52pm

Markets

KSE-100 up over 350 points as bullish wave continues

Benchmark index settles above 45,500 level

Updated 12 Jul, 2023 08:05pm

Markets

Rupee inches higher, settles at 277.48 against US dollar

Currency appreciates 0.39% in inter-bank market

Updated 12 Jul, 2023 08:01pm

Fitch upgrades rating on improved external liquidity

ISLAMABAD: Fitch Ratings has upgraded Pakistan’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to “CCC”...

Updated 11 Jul, 2023 09:02am

Opinion

We don’t yet know what lies in store for us—II

The entire nation is waiting for a rather irrelevant document called the Staff Level Agreement (SLA) with the...

Published 31 Mar, 2023 06:45am

Pakistan

IMF is asking for ‘guarantees at every step’: PM Shehbaz

Says talks between government and IMF are still underway

Updated 28 Mar, 2023 07:57pm

Opinion

Markets

All-time low: Rupee closes near 230 against US dollar as pressure on currency remains

Ongoing political and economic uncertainty take toll amid reports SBP is discouraging inter-bank trade

Updated 25 Jul, 2022 07:25pm

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
Petrol/Litre / Dec 21	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585

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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