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Forget FY24

In 2021, buckling under the pressure of a rising import bill, soaring inflation, and shrinking reserves, the State...

Published 12 Dec, 2024 08:37am

BR Research

Don’t bury the Lede

The shrinking of the automobile market for newly assembled vehicles is almost palpable and can be felt (by...

Published 21 Oct, 2024 09:12am

BR Research

Autos: It’s not over

In a great display of resilience, automobile sales have remained consistently strong on May 24 after delivering a...

Published 21 Jun, 2024 08:59am

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Misery meets company

If the worthy reader too cannot keep up with the barrage of news on price cuts being offered by various automobile...

Published 20 May, 2024 08:49am

BR Research

Autos: Unpromising!

In two more months, the automotive industry would have reached the half-way point into the fiscal year that is FY24,...

Published 16 Nov, 2023 08:39am

BR Research

Autos: The scatter here is too great

The headlines haven’t changed—automobile volumes are down (in FY23, volumes shrank by 55 percent for passenger cars,...

Published 24 Aug, 2023 08:44am

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The reckoning

Automotive industry is large enough and auto OEMs are making enough profits for analysts to talk about it endlessly....

Published 18 Aug, 2023 08:38am

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The rich and the resilient

Pricier cars becoming more uneconomical, mounting cost of borrowing at prevailing kibor rates close to 23 percent,...

Updated 13 Jul, 2023 10:11am

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Autos: Head-on collision

While March numbers would give pause and indicate there may still be ample demand in the market for newly assembled...

Published 11 May, 2023 09:01am

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Suzuki skids to a stop?

Pakistan Suzuki (PSX: PSMC) has had plenty of idle time on its hands, however vexing that may be, owing to massive...

Published 19 Apr, 2023 08:32am

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Crash and burn

Automotive assemblers are trying to make do. In the first half of the fiscal year, volumes have shrunk 38 percent...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 07:58am

BR Research

Auto: Flailing volumes

FY22 is not panning out very well for the automotive industry. This was anticipated early on as overall inflation,...

Published 19 Sep, 2022 08:31am

Business & Finance

Auto sales to increase in May, but a slowdown is right around the corner in Pakistan

JS Research says number for May likely to clock in at 22,700 units

Updated 07 Jun, 2022 09:04pm

BR Research

Auto market size: Standing still!

The automobile industry saw a number of new entrants come into competition to the three Japanese players, due to...

Updated 14 Mar, 2022 11:35am

BR Research

Autos: Calm before the storm

The auto industry has certainly ended the calendar year with a bang. In the cumulative first half of the fiscal ...

Published 14 Jan, 2022 08:01am

Looking Back 2021

Autos: New Year (warning) bells

December numbers are not available yet, but by November, cumulative auto sales (including passenger cars, LCVs and...

Published 30 Dec, 2021 07:16am

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Autos: tis the season to be jolly

The sudden, almost dramatic, increase in sales in the automobile industry specially in passenger cars is an...

Published 25 Aug, 2021 07:40am

BR Research

Autos: Take ‘em for a spin!

The automotive market for FY21 has expanded by 62 percent (passenger cars, LCVs and SUVs) compared to last year,...

Published 16 Jul, 2021 08:03am

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Autos: still in comfort zone?

Automobile sector is one of the fastest recovering industries in the country from Covid-19. But the real test is...

Published 15 Apr, 2021 07:35am

BR Research

Sapphire’s EV ambitions

Finally, electric bus has made its debut in Pakistan. Yesterday, there was a soft launch of first electric bus by...

Published 31 Mar, 2021 07:40am

Pakistan

Output of LCVs increase 20pc in 7 months

The production of cars and jeeps also increased by 8.61 percent as it surge from 81,256 units last year to 74,817 units during 2020-21.

Published 18 Mar, 2021 06:39pm

BR Research

All about that base

Reverberations can be felt across the automotive industry as demand is returning with a vengeance. In Feb-21,...

Published 18 Mar, 2021 07:40am

BR Research

Commercial Vehicles: Growth (ish)

Over 95 percent of Pakistan’s freight transportation uses the country’s road network—which means, the country...

Published 25 Feb, 2021 07:40am

Pakistan

Output of LCVs falls 4.28pc in five months

As many as 6,957 LCVs were manufactured during July-November (2020-21), showing decline of 4.28 percent.

Published 20 Jan, 2021 06:58pm

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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