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Bank of England cuts interest rate as inflation slows

LONDON: The Bank of England on Thursday said it was cutting its key interest further after UK inflation hit a...

Published 07 Nov, 2024 05:40pm

Markets

China stocks rise ahead of US election

SINGAPORE: China stocks climbed and Hong Kong markets were steady on Monday as traders positioned for a pivotal ...

Published 05 Nov, 2024 03:30am

Business & Finance

Business community terms interest rate cut ‘insufficient’

KARACHI: Business and industrial community have expressed that the policy rate cuts announced by Central Bank in...

Published 05 Nov, 2024 03:30am

Markets

Higher than market consensus: SBP reduces key policy rate by 250bps, takes it to 15%

Most analysts had expected cut of 200bps

Updated 04 Nov, 2024 09:53pm

Business & Finance

PVMA for reduction in interest rate

KARACHI: Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA) Chairman, Sheikh Umer Rehan, has strongly urged the...

Updated 03 Nov, 2024 09:49am

World

Fed seen on track for 25-basis-point rate cuts next week and in December

Federal Reserve policymakers look all but certain to reduce short-term borrowing costs by a modest quarter of a...

Published 01 Nov, 2024 09:03pm

Business & Finance

APTMA urges SBP’s MPC to reduce interest rate by 500bps

ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has sought a cut of at least 500 basis points in...

Published 01 Nov, 2024 08:22am

Markets

Fed seen cutting policy rate by 25 bps in Nov, Dec

Federal Reserve policymakers are very likely to go ahead with cutting short-term U.S. borrowing costs by a quarter...

Published 31 Oct, 2024 07:47pm

Business & Finance

Hub Chamber demands cut in interest rate

KARACHI: President of the Hub Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yakoob H Karim, former Presidents Maqsood Ismail and...

Published 31 Oct, 2024 07:34am

Business & Finance

BQATI urges MPC to slash interest rate

KARACHI: Bon Qasim Association of Trade and Industry (BQATI) has called on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to...

Published 28 Oct, 2024 06:21am

Business & Finance

KATI seeks cut in interest rate immediately

KARACHI: Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) President Junaid Naqi has urged the State Bank and the...

Published 25 Oct, 2024 07:56am

Business & Finance

NKAATI demands to reduce interest rate by 4pc in MP

KARACHI: Faisal Moiz Khan, President of the North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry (NKAATI), stated that in...

Published 25 Oct, 2024 07:54am

Business & Finance

200bps cut in key policy rate likely

KARACHI: With the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) set to hold its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on November ...

Published 25 Oct, 2024 06:28am

Business & Finance

Proposed mini-budget rejected: Govt urged to slash power rates by 9pc

LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry's top officials, Zakki Ejaz and SM Tanveer,...

Published 18 Oct, 2024 07:43am

Business & Finance

ECB makes back-to-back interest rate cuts as inflation falls

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank cut interest rates again Thursday, upping the tempo at which it is lowering...

Updated 17 Oct, 2024 06:38pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan needs to finance budget deficit thru external borrowing, non-bank borrowing: study

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs to finance the budget deficit through external borrowing and non-bank borrowing as these...

Published 08 Oct, 2024 06:46am

Pakistan

Business leader says JI has transformed into ‘pressure group’

LAHORE: Chairman Supreme Council Anjuman Tajiran Naeem Mir has alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami has transformed into a...

Published 29 Sep, 2024 02:46am

Markets

Japan’s Nikkei books best week since mid-Aug

TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Friday and logged its best week since mid-August, but gains were ...

Published 21 Sep, 2024 06:43am

Markets

European shares slip but set for weekly gains

PARIS: European shares slipped on Friday after a rally in the previous session spurred by the US Federal Reserve’s...

Published 21 Sep, 2024 06:43am

Business & Finance

Turkish central bank keeps rates steady, alters guidance

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s central bank held its main interest rate steady at 50% for a sixth straight month on Thursday as...

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 06:16pm

Business & Finance

SAI chief condemns 2pc cut in interest rate

KARACHI: Muhammad Kamran Arbi, President of the Site Association of Industry (SAI), has criticized the State Bank of...

Published 14 Sep, 2024 06:56am

Business & Finance

UBG seeks more 3pc cut in interest rate

KARACHI: Leaders of United Business Group (UBG) have criticised the State Bank’s mere 2% reduction in the interest...

Published 14 Sep, 2024 06:45am

Business & Finance

SBP Overnight Repo rates

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to decrease ‘Policy Rate’ (Target Rate) from 19.50 percent...

Published 13 Sep, 2024 06:13am

Business & Finance

PHMA wants interest rate in single-digit

KARACHI: Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PHMA) has urged the State Bank to cut interest...

Published 13 Sep, 2024 06:13am

Business & Finance

SBP made its most aggressive move on the interest rate, but business associations are still unhappy

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) moved more aggressively on the key interest rate than what the wider market had...

Updated 12 Sep, 2024 09:26pm

Markets

Most aggressive cut since April 2020: SBP reduces key policy rate by 200bps, brings it down to 17.5%

Pace of disinflation exceeded earlier expectations, says central bank
The previous occasion SBP moved with this quantum of reduction was in April 2020

Updated 12 Sep, 2024 10:54pm

Markets

KSE-100 gains on anticipation of reduction in key policy rate

Bullish sentiments were witnessed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), amid expectations of further reduction in...

Updated 12 Sep, 2024 10:05pm

World

Fed seen cutting policy rate by 25 bps next week

WASHINGTON: US central bankers will likely start long-awaited interest-rate cuts next week with a...

Published 12 Sep, 2024 03:48am

Business & Finance

Traders urge govt to reduce interest rate to boost economic growth

PESHAWAR: Members of the business community urged the government to reduce the current interest rate for economic...

Published 10 Sep, 2024 06:32am

Business & Finance

Business leader for 10pc cut in policy rate

KARACHI: Pakistan’s renowned industrialist and United Business Group (UBG) leader, Farhan Hanif, has urged the...

Published 10 Sep, 2024 06:32am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 21	278.03
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 21	277.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 21	154.92
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 21	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 21	1.26
Euro to USD / Nov 21	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 20	5,917.11
Nasdaq / Nov 20	18,966.14
Dow Jones / Nov 20	43,408.47
India Sensex / Nov 21	77,137.20
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 21	38,026.17
Hang Seng / Nov 21	19,620.49
FTSE 100 / Nov 21	8,069.57
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 21	18,942.65

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 20	238,940
Petrol/Litre / Nov 21	248.38
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 21	69.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 21	17,785
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 21	2,662.71
Diesel/Litre / Nov 21	255.14

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 21 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	174,389,145 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	63,973,243 ▲ 0.00
Kohinoor Spining / Nov 21 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	62,996,737 ▲ 0.00
Aisha Steel Mill / Nov 21 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	48,137,561 ▲ 0.00
Waves Home Appliances / Nov 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	43,506,391 ▲ 0.00
Lotte Chemical / Nov 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	40,852,960 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Nov 21 Telecard Limited(TELE)	36,937,252 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	31,401,025 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	31,346,592 ▲ 0.00

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