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Dollar hits two-month high on rising rate bets

NEW YORK: The US dollar hit a two-month high on Tuesday in line with higher Treasury yields after hawkish comments...

Published 24 May, 2023 05:57am

Business & Finance

Dollar gains against yen

NEW YORK: The dollar rose against the Japanese yen on Monday, holding just below a six-month high, as investors...

Published 23 May, 2023 06:14am

Markets

Wall St slightly higher as investors focus on Fed minutes

NEW YORK: Wall Street’s main indexes edged higher in choppy trading on Wednesday, a day after their worst...

Published 23 Feb, 2023 05:52am

Business & Finance

Dollar gains

NEW YORK: The dollar gained modestly on Wednesday against its peers as recent strong economic data eased recession...

Published 23 Feb, 2023 05:52am

Markets

Wall Street reverses gains on hawkish Fed comments

NEW YORK: Wall Street’s main indexes reversed gains by early afternoon on Wednesday as hawkish comments from...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 05:58am

Markets

S&P 500 ends higher, led by defensive shares

NEW YORK: Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index ended higher on Friday in a choppy trading session, as gains ...

Published 21 Nov, 2022 05:59am

Markets

US stocks decline on mixed economic data

NEW YORK: US stock indexes fell on Thursday as mixed economic data and hawkish comments from a Federal Reserve...

Published 18 Nov, 2022 05:53am

Markets

Oil falls on easing geopolitical tensions

HOUSTON: Oil fell on Thursday as geopolitical tensions eased slightly and rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in China...

Published 18 Nov, 2022 05:53am

Business & Finance

Dollar rises with bets on hawkish Fed

NEW YORK/LONDON: The dollar rose on Thursday as US Treasury yields increased and investors bet on a relatively...

Published 18 Nov, 2022 05:53am

Markets

Wall Street deep in bear market as S&P 500 hits new two-year low

NEW YORK: Wall Street’s main indexes sank deeper into a bear market on Tuesday as an early rally in stocks ...

Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am

World

Fed officials united on need to hike rates, divided over how high to go

The Federal Reserve needs to keep raising borrowing costs to bring high inflation under control, a string of U.S....

Published 18 Aug, 2022 11:55pm

Business & Finance

Possible for US, EU to avoid recession: Fed official

WASHINGTON: The United States and the European Union can avoid recession and achieve a soft landing by bringing...

Published 04 Aug, 2022 07:25am

Business & Finance

Dollar slides from near two-year high amid hawkish signals from Fed

NEW YORK/LONDON: The dollar slipped from a near two-year high on Thursday, as investors digested hawkish signals ...

Published 08 Apr, 2022 05:28am

Markets

Wall Street mixed, investors eye Fed and Ukraine

Wall Street was mixed on Thursday, with Amazon and Nvidia weighing on the Nasdaq and Pfizer lifting the S&P 500...

Published 08 Apr, 2022 12:57am

Business & Finance

Dollar rebounds; at 6-year high vs yen

NEW YORK: The US dollar index bounced back on Friday from recent declines following comments from Federal Reserve...

Published 19 Mar, 2022 04:42am

Fed hikes rates, signals aggressive turn against inflation

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point and projected...

Published 16 Mar, 2022 11:14pm

Business & Finance

Dollar slips, euro gains

NEW YORK: The US dollar eased and the euro strengthened on Tuesday as Russia said some of its troops were returning...

Published 16 Feb, 2022 06:20am

Business & Finance

Dollar strengthens on Bullard rate comments, Ukraine concerns

NEW YORK: The US dollar index reached a two-week high on Monday, with investors anxious over tensions in Ukraine and...

Published 15 Feb, 2022 06:45am

Business & Finance

High US inflation puts Fed's credibility 'on the line': Bullard

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve needs to accelerate the pace of interest rate increases to fight rising inflation,...

Published 14 Feb, 2022 07:27pm

Markets

Wall St drops over 1% on hotter inflation data, Bullard's hawkish comment

Megacap companies dragged U.S. stock indexes lower on Thursday after a hotter consumer prices reading and comments...

Published 11 Feb, 2022 12:51am

Markets

Oil prices fall on fears of aggressive Fed rate hike

Oil prices fell on Thursday despite forecasts for a steeper rise in energy demand, with crude turning negative on...

Published 11 Feb, 2022 12:39am

Opinion

EM currencies: King dollar brings bad news

The money market didn’t take Shaukat Tarin’s assurance about the IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme ...

Published 18 Nov, 2021 03:58am

Markets

Wall Street ends lower, weighed down by Big Tech

Wall Street ended lower on Wednesday, spooked by worries that the Delta coronavirus variant could blunt the ...

Updated 09 Sep, 2021 02:02am

Business & Finance

Fed's Bullard says stimulus tapering should begin this year

There is plenty of demand for workers and there are more job openings than there are unemployed workers

Published 08 Sep, 2021 10:51am

Markets

South African rand extends gains after GDP rebasing; stocks decline

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange's All-share index closed down 0.57pc at 67,069 points and the Top-40 index lost 0.58pc to end at 60,855 points.

Published 27 Aug, 2021 12:14am

Business & Finance

Dollar higher but still set for biggest weekly loss since May

NEW YORK: The dollar rose on Friday as upbeat economic data helped reverse some of the losses from earlier this week...

Published 31 Jul, 2021 04:05am

Markets

Two-year yields hover near 13-month peak, yield curve flattens

The yield curve spread between five-year notes and 30-year bonds hit 110.62 basis points, its lowest level since August 2020, before ticking back to 117.90.

Published 22 Jun, 2021 12:17am

Markets

Australian shares drop as Fed official's hawkish view spooks investors

New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index was roughly flat at 12,533.16.

Published 21 Jun, 2021 01:25pm

Markets

Nikkei at 1-month low as Fed's hawkish stance dulls risk appetite

Thousands of corporations from Toyota Motor to telecom giant SoftBank Group are setting up clinics in a massive private-sector vaccination drive, which will begin on Monday.

Published 21 Jun, 2021 01:21pm

Markets

Dow falls for fifth straight day, swamping US stocks

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 1.6 percent at 33,290.08, taking its loss for the week to 3.4 percent.

Published 19 Jun, 2021 01:35am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 18	278.55
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 18	278.25
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 18	153.63
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 18	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 18	1.27
Euro to USD / Dec 18	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 17	6,050.61
Nasdaq / Dec 17	20,109.06
Dow Jones / Dec 17	43,449.90
India Sensex / Dec 18	80,231.76
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 18	39,081.71
Hang Seng / Dec 18	19,857.31
FTSE 100 / Dec 18	8,222.99
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 18	20,267.35

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 17	241,860
Petrol/Litre / Dec 18	252.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 18	70.43
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 18	17,585
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 18	2,644.54
Diesel/Litre / Dec 18	255.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
LSE Capital / Dec 18 LSE Capital Limited(LSECL)	6.70 ▲ 1.00 (17.54%)
S.G.Power / Dec 18 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9.17 ▲ 1.00 (12.24%)
Faran Sugar (R) / Dec 18 Faran Sugar Mills Limited (R)(FRSMR)	9.43 ▲ 1.00 (11.86%)
Gulshan Sp. / Dec 18 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.47 ▲ 0.42 (10.37%)
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 18 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	11.06 ▲ 1.01 (10.05%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 18 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.50 ▲ 1.05 (10.05%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 18 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	61.55 ▲ 5.60 (10.01%)
Attock Cement / Dec 18 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	259.27 ▲ 23.57 (10.00%)
AL-Ghazi Tractors / Dec 18 Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited(AGTL)	564.23 ▲ 51.29 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
National Bank / Dec 18 National Bank of Pakistan(NBP)	66.38 ▼ -7.38 (-10.01%)
First Imrooz Mod. / Dec 18 First Imrooz Modaraba(FIMM)	180.01 ▼ -19.99 (-10.00%)
Imperial Limited / Dec 18 Imperial Limited(IML)	20.16 ▼ -2.24 (-10.00%)
J.A.Textile / Dec 18 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	44.37 ▼ -4.93 (-10.00%)
Macter Int. Ltd / Dec 18 Macter International Limited(MACTER)	331.40 ▼ -36.82 (-10.00%)
Mari Petroleum / Dec 18 Mari Petroleum Company Limited(MARI)	728.78 ▼ -80.98 (-10.00%)
Synthetic Prod / Dec 18 Synthetic Products Enterprises Limited(SPEL)	45.89 ▼ -5.10 (-10.00%)
Biafo Ind. / Dec 18 Biafo Industries Limited(BIFO)	198.85 ▼ -22.08 (-9.99%)
Bilal Fibres / Dec 18 Bilal Fibres Limited(BILF)	12.61 ▼ -1.40 (-9.99%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	151,921,663 ▼ -0.15
Pak Elektron / Dec 18 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	107,502,606 ▲ 0.34
Cnergyico PK / Dec 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	67,234,901 ▼ -0.51
B.O.Punjab / Dec 18 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	60,136,151 ▲ 0.13
Pak Refinery / Dec 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	55,973,468 ▼ -1.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	46,669,770 ▼ -0.33
Sui South Gas / Dec 18 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	42,923,281 ▲ 1.67
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Dec 18 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	36,897,118 ▼ -0.46
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 18 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	36,858,206 ▲ 1.01

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