Jul-Feb FY25: LSM sector contracts 1.90pc ISLAMABAD: The overall Large Scale Manufacturing sector has shown a growth of -1.90 percent during (July-February)... Updated 16 Apr, 2025 02:24pm
BR Research Too many young, too few factories More than half of Pakistan’s 241 million citizens are under the age of 19. Every year, millions of them join the... Published 11 Apr, 2025 08:50am
BR Research Ittefaq Iron Industries Limited Ittefaq Iron Industries Limited (PSX: ITTEFAQ) was incorporated in Pakistan as a private limited company in 2004 and... Published 08 Apr, 2025 08:54am
BR Research LSM: Still reeling “Meanwhile, the decline in industrial sector growth in Q1-FY25 moderated relative to last year, “said the State Bank... Published 30 Jan, 2025 09:28am
BR Research Stability not translating into growth The GDP provisionally grew by a meager 0.92 percent in the 1QFY25. The figures have a flavor of Dar’s recipe where... Published 01 Jan, 2025 08:55am
BR Research LSM: 1QFY25 back in red While most macroeconomic indicators have improved in the past few months, and the authorities are increasingly... Published 19 Nov, 2024 08:47am
BR Research LSM: Clocked back in the past Large Scale Manufacturing index for June 2024 went down 0.03 percent year-on-year – the first such instance since... Published 20 Aug, 2024 06:46am
BR Research Circling the drain Inflation was fairly tamed, a second policy rate cut well in play, and after a particularly gruelling exercise of... Published 30 Jul, 2024 06:46am
BR Research Rate cut: the virtues of patience If Pakistan were a person, it would have probably been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Few trips to Gulf capitals;... Published 29 Apr, 2024 07:50am
Editorials LSMI growth EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics provided the quantum indices of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI)... Published 20 Feb, 2024 03:09am
BR Research LSM and wearing apparel: Doing it wrong again Industrial activity continues to be suppressed, as the Large Scale Manufacturing index for Jul-Nov FY24 returned... Published 17 Jan, 2024 09:34am
Editorials LSM growth EDITORIAL: The latest Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) growth figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics... Published 17 Jan, 2024 06:02am
Editorials Austerity measures EDITORIAL: A Business Recorder exclusive reveals that austerity measures for the current year are awaiting Caretaker... Published 26 Dec, 2023 04:30am
BR Research LSM inching up gradually The tide is finally turning after a disastrous 15 months of large scale manufacturing performance. Having turned... Published 16 Nov, 2023 08:43am
BR Research LSM: low base in play The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) marked the thirteenth consecutive month of negative year-on-year growth – an... Published 19 Sep, 2023 08:53am
BR Research LSM: Tanks double-digits Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM)growth settled in negative double digits for the outgoing fiscal year. This is so... Published 18 Aug, 2023 08:40am
Opinion LSM sector travails Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector, as per data released by the Finance Division, registered negative 8.1 ... Published 07 Aug, 2023 06:34am
Print Unemployment rate fell to 6.3pc in FY21 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in 2020-2021 from 6.9 per cent in 2018-2019, according... Updated 09 Jun, 2023 08:59am
BR Research Current account roundup: 10MFY23 The current account hung in balance in April 2023, and the deficit in 10MFY23 is down to one-fourth and stood at... Published 18 May, 2023 08:47am
BR Research Power generation keeps going down Nine months and running. Electricity generation has continued to dip year-on-year. This has never happened in at... Updated 21 Mar, 2023 12:44pm
Opinion Toshakhana: asset accumulation The release of the list of those who received extremely expensive gifts during their official foreign tours (mostly... Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am
Editorials Inflation and lower output EDITORIAL: A former Finance Minister, Dr Hafiz A. Pasha, while addressing the members of Pakistan Industrial and... Published 23 Jan, 2023 05:57am
BR Research LSM deep in red Large Scale Manufacturing went down for the fifth straight month, but on a cumulative and monthly basis. This last... Published 18 Jan, 2023 09:23am
BR Research LSM: The slide deepens Large Scale Manufacturing went down 7.75 percent year-on-year for October 2022. That is the sharpest October drop... Published 16 Dec, 2022 09:01am
BR Research Tough times ahead for LSM Old base or revised, April year-on-year or 10-months year-on-year, Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) has continued the... Published 20 Jun, 2022 09:39am
Pakistan LSMI output declines 13.3% in April on monthly basis, increases 15.4% year-on-year Growth of 10.7% posted during July-April 2021-22 when compared with the same period of previous year Published 16 Jun, 2022 02:54pm
BR Research Exports keep LSM high Pakistan’s Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) grew 7.8 percent for Jul-Feb FY22 period. The cumulative index for the... Published 20 Apr, 2022 08:20am
BR Research LSM: Million-dollar furniture leads growth Pakistan exported a little over $5 million worth of furniture in the seven-month period from Jul 2021 to Jan 2022.... Published 22 Mar, 2022 08:08am
Editorials Better late than never EDITORIAL: Finally, the rebasing of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and trade indices has been approved by Pakistan... Published 18 Mar, 2022 05:20am
BR Research LSM: Moderating too soon? The LSM growth in November 2021 came down to 0.29 percent – lowest year-on-year number since August 2020. Having... Published 27 Jan, 2022 08:11am
Operation ‘Bunyan ul Marsoos’: Pakistan destroys Udhampur airbase, Pathankot airfield in India, state media reports