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Rs368bn raised through auction for PIBs

KARACHI: In the fixed bond PIBs auction on Wednesday, the government raised Rs 368 billion against the target of Rs...

Published 21 Nov, 2024 07:30am

Opinion

Transforming maturity profile of domestic debt

Inflation is falling rapidly, nearing a four-year low, with FY25 (July 2024–June 2025) average inflation expected...

Updated 07 Oct, 2024 08:22am

Editorials

Leverage liquidity to re-profile debt

EDITORIAL: The dividend of tight monetary and fiscal policies is materialising in the form of falling inflation....

Published 04 Oct, 2024 06:46am

Business & Finance

Auction for PIBs: Rs83bn raised against Rs200bn target

KARACHI: After rejecting T-Bills auction Wednesday, the federal government Thursday raised Rs 83 billion against the...

Updated 20 Sep, 2024 09:33am

Business & Finance

Govt raises Rs140bn through PIBs auction

KARACHI: The federal government on Wednesday raised some Rs 140 billion through the sale of long-term investment...

Updated 01 Aug, 2024 08:03am

Govt to borrow Rs3.97trn in Q1 FY24

KARACHI: The federal government has planned to borrow Rs 3.97 trillion from the domestic banking sector during the...

Updated 19 Jul, 2024 09:33am

Mid-year review: 77pc borrowing for financing fiscal deficit thru domestic sources: MoF

ISLAMABAD: The government has borrowed around 77 percent for financing of federal fiscal deficit through domestic...

Updated 23 May, 2024 09:22am

Govt raises Rs97bn via auction for PIBs

KARACHI: The federal government on Wednesday raised some Rs 97 billion through sale of long-term investment papers....

Updated 23 May, 2024 09:19am

Public debt soars to Rs39.7trn, NA told

ISLAMABAD: The external debt was recorded at $86.36 billion and domestic debt was recorded at Rs39.7 trillion of the...

Updated 17 May, 2024 12:39pm

Business & Finance

Rs6.8bn mopped up thru auction for PIBs

KARACHI: The federal government on Tuesday raised Rs 6.8 billion from the banking sector against the sale of...

Published 17 Apr, 2024 05:28am

Jul-Mar period: Govt borrowing soars to record high of Rs4.8trn

Analysts say that federal government’s rising spending requirements has forced it to borrow money from scheduled banks to meet its financial requirement

Updated 13 Apr, 2024 01:34pm

Cut-off yield of PIBs declines

KARACHI: Cut-off yield of long-term Pakistan Investments Bonds (PIBs) declined up to 15 basis points (bps) in the...

Updated 14 Mar, 2024 12:32pm

Govt securities: federal govt borrows less than target

KARACHI: The federal government on Wednesday borrowed less than the target through the sale of long-term government...

Updated 15 Feb, 2024 09:48am

Editorials

Fiscal house needs repairs

EDITORIAL: The fiscal summary is a mixed bag in 1HFY24 (first six months of fiscal year 2023-24) as the government...

Published 02 Feb, 2024 05:20am

Business & Finance

Margin on PIBs declines

KARACHI: Margin on long-term government investment bonds fell up to 50 basis points (bps) in the auction held on...

Updated 17 Jan, 2024 08:38am

KIBOR plummets on policy rate decision

Cut-off yield on three-month T-bills dropped by 120 basis points (bps) to 22.58 percent in the secondary market

Updated 16 Sep, 2023 06:15pm

Aug-Oct auction calendar: Govt plans to borrow Rs11.09trn from banks

KARACHI: The federal government has planned to borrow Rs 11.09 trillion from the domestic banking system during the...

Updated 08 Aug, 2023 09:41am

Budgetary support: Govt borrows Rs500bn from banks in 2 weeks: SBP

Says federal government's borrowing for budgetary support rose by 218 percent during the initial two weeks of this fiscal year

Updated 26 Jul, 2023 01:00pm

Q1FY24: Cash-strapped govt to borrow record Rs11trn

KARACHI: In the absence of sufficient foreign inflows, the federal government has planned to borrow over Rs 11...

Updated 07 Jul, 2023 09:07am

SBP’s auction calendar: Cash-strapped govt to borrow record Rs10trn in 3 months

KARACHI: The cash-strapped federal government plans to borrow record over Rs 10 trillion from the commercial banks...

Updated 09 Jun, 2023 09:00am

Opinion

Domestic and foreign savings: Government must cease reliance

National savings rate is an important indicator of an economy’s financial health, and its identity with investment...

Published 29 May, 2023 04:27am

Editorials

PSDP: prudence needed

EDITORIAL: The Ministry of Finance has given a 700 billion rupee indicative budget ceiling for Public Sector...

Published 19 May, 2023 06:17am

May-July: govt intends to borrow record Rs9.4trn

Presently, government is the single largest borrower from commercial banks

Updated 13 May, 2023 02:47pm

Business & Finance

SBP invites applications for selection of PDs

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has invited applications for selection of Primary Dealers/Preliminary...

Published 13 May, 2023 05:59am

Editorials

Interest rate and profitability

EDITORIAL: Profitability of Pakistani banks rose to a record high of 126 billion rupees – up by 56 percent year on...

Published 05 May, 2023 06:44am

Wapda receivables touch the Rs232.6bn mark

ISLAMABAD: Water and Power Development Authority’s (Wapda) receivables stock has reached Rs 232.644 billion due to...

Updated 20 Apr, 2023 08:34am

Business & Finance

Rs143.7bn raised via auction for PIBs

KARACHI: The federal government raised Rs 143.7 billion through the sale of long-term government securities against...

Published 13 Apr, 2023 06:37am

Editorials

Soaring debt

EDITORIAL: The government’s total debt stock rose to 55 trillion rupees by end January 2023 as per data released ...

Published 09 Mar, 2023 06:23am

Markets

Asset classes and their performance in Pakistan: all that glittered in 2022 was gold

USD-denominated Naya Pakistan Certificates and US dollar were placed second and third, respectively

Published 27 Dec, 2022 05:24pm

Opinion

Pakistan won’t default

The ongoing ‘default’ discussion is a favourite political and economic pastime. After the first decade since...

Published 12 Dec, 2022 06:07am

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
Petrol/Litre / Dec 21	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585

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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