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Negative growth of 66.73pc YoY: H1 mobile phones import stands at $362.862m

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $362.862 million during the first half (July-December) of the...

Updated 22 Jan, 2023 10:17am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation stays unchanged

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended January 19, remained unchanged,...

Published 21 Jan, 2023 06:49am

Opinion

Wheat crisis

Agrarian economy of Pakistan employs a large workforce and considered vital from a social, livelihood and foreign...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:35am

Business & Finance

Petroleum group imports show negative growth

ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group imports witnessed a negative growth of 8.80 percent during the first half (July-December)...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:10am

Business & Finance

Textile group: H1FY23 exports decline 7.07pc to $8.72bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports declined by around 7.07 percent during the first half (July-December)...

Updated 20 Jan, 2023 08:51am

Editorials

IMF is first option; it’s our last option as well

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s economy is in a tailspin notwithstanding repeated claims to the contrary by Finance Minister...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 06:22am

Jul-Nov LSMI output declines 3.58pc YoY

As per provisional Quantum Index numbers (QIM) of the Large Scale Manufacturing Industries, the LSMI output decreased by 5.49 percent for November 2022

Updated 18 Jan, 2023 08:55am

Markets

Jul-Nov Large Scale Manufacturing sector output down 3.6% YoY

Some of the main contributors towards decline are food, tobacco and textile industries

Updated 17 Jan, 2023 04:12pm

Imported urea: ECC approves DTP, incidental charges

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet stated that fixation of price of imported urea...

Updated 17 Jan, 2023 09:08am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI-based inflation on the rise

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended January 12, recorded an increase ...

Published 14 Jan, 2023 06:22am

Pakistan

Arrangements in place for country’s first digital census: PBS official

ISLAMABAD: The country is going to hold a digital census for the first time this year, with all the preparations...

Published 13 Jan, 2023 06:05am

Editorials

Digital Census

EDITORIAL: In an important development Pakistan is all set to digitalise population and housing census. The National...

Published 11 Jan, 2023 05:53am

SBP seeks feeder-wise data of power consumers

ISLAMABAD: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has sought feeder-wise data of electricity consumers to be used to project...

Updated 10 Jan, 2023 09:03am

Business & Finance

Pakistan: Weekly SPI sharply up 1.09pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) witnessed a sharp increase of 1.09 percent ended on January 5, 2023...

Updated 07 Jan, 2023 08:50am

Jul-Dec trade deficit declines 32.65pc to $17.13bn YoY

The exports during July-December (2022-23) were recorded at $14.249 billion

Updated 04 Jan, 2023 09:11am

Editorials

Analysing the inflationary spiral

EDITORIAL: December 2022 headline inflation (Consumer Price Index) rose by 24.5 percent as per the Pakistan Bureau ...

Published 04 Jan, 2023 06:02am

Inflation refuses to be tamed, rises to 24.5pc

The CPI in the first half (July-December) of current fiscal year on average remained at 25.02per cent compared to 9.81 per cent during the same period of the last fiscal year

Updated 03 Jan, 2023 09:09am

Pakistan

Pakistan's headline inflation clocks in at 24.5% in December

CPI-based number has stayed above 20% for the last 7 months

Updated 02 Jan, 2023 06:51pm

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.09pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended December 29, recorded a decrease ...

Updated 31 Dec, 2022 08:46am

Pakistan

CS orders officials to complete arrangements for digital census

LAHORE: Chief Secretary Punjab Abdullah Khan Sumbal has directed the authorities to complete the security and other...

Published 30 Dec, 2022 05:50am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.11pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended December 22, recorded a decrease ...

Published 24 Dec, 2022 05:50am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.4pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator-based inflation for the week ended December 15, recorded a decrease of 0.40...

Published 17 Dec, 2022 06:50am

Business & Finance

July-Nov textile group exports fall around 5pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports declined by around five percent during the first five months...

Published 17 Dec, 2022 06:45am

Business & Finance

July-October 2022-23: POL group imports witness negative growth of 8.11pc

ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group imports witnessed a negative growth of 8.11 percent during the first five months...

Published 17 Dec, 2022 05:58am

Business & Finance

Jul-Oct LSM sector output down 2.89pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The overall output of the Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector declined by 2.89 percent during the ...

Published 16 Dec, 2022 05:58am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation unchanged on average

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended December 8, recorded no change on...

Updated 10 Dec, 2022 10:02am

Business & Finance

SPI down on decrease in food prices: PBS

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended December 1, recorded a decrease of...

Updated 03 Dec, 2022 09:53am

Nov CPI inflation jumps 23.8pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 23.8 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Published 02 Dec, 2022 06:41am

Business & Finance

Jul-Nov trade deficit shrinks 30.14pc to $14.406bn YoY

Deficit widens 23.59 per cent on a month-on-month basis to stand at $2.876 billion in November 2022 when compared to $2.327 billion in October 2022

Updated 02 Dec, 2022 11:21am

Markets

Pakistan's CPI-based inflation in November clocks in at 23.8%

CPI inflation in rural areas stood at 27.2% on a year-on-year basis

Updated 01 Dec, 2022 05:49pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 20	278.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 20	278.10
USD to Japanese Yen / May 20	155.76
USD to Swiss Franc / May 20	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 20	1.27
Euro to USD / May 20	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 17	5303.27
India Sensex / May 17	73917.03
Nasdaq / May 17	16685.97
Dow Jones / May 17	40003.59
Tokyo Nikkei / May 20	39197.34
Hang Seng / May 20	19650.18
FTSE 100 / May 20	8442.03
Germany DAX 30 / May 20	18754.68

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 17	19935
Petrol/Litre / May 20	273.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 20	80.09
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 20	214678
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 20	2436.84
Diesel/Litre / May 20	274.08

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 20 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 20 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 20 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 20 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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