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Prices of essential commodities

Prices of food items show mixed trend

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of essential commodities including live chicken / meat, vegetable, flour, sugar and...

Published 09 Dec, 2024 06:43am

Editorials

Cut in petrol prices

EDITORIAL: The cut in petrol and diesel prices for the fifth consecutive fortnight – amounting to total reduction...

Published 05 Oct, 2024 06:43am

Pakistan

Maryam vows to strengthen supply chain mechanism to keep food prices in check

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to make supply chain...

Published 30 Jul, 2024 03:10am

Markets

Minister orders strict monitoring of prices of essential commodities

HYDERABAD: The Sindh minister for Irrigation and food Jam Khan Shoro said that all the officers of concerned...

Published 23 Mar, 2024 05:41am

Cabinet takes stock of situation

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed that a committee should be established immediately to control...

Updated 12 Mar, 2024 09:42am

Opinion

Waiting for Ramazan

The holy month of Ramazan is just around the corner. It is a month of piety and sharing and gives the well-to-do a...

Published 17 Feb, 2024 05:51am

Markets

Prices: provinces, ICT asked to curtail wholesale-retail gap

ISLAMABAD: The Caretaker Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Muhammad Sami Saeed has ...

Published 17 Jan, 2024 06:02am

Pakistan

Action continues against profiteers in Karachi

KARACHI: The campaign against profiteers initiated by the city administration remained continued here. The price...

Published 22 Nov, 2023 05:48am

Markets

Prices of essential commodities remain high

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities, like vegetables, pulses, fruits, live chicken/meat, sugar and flour...

Published 20 Nov, 2023 06:28am

Kakar asks CMs to cut rates of essential items

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday asked the chief ministers to cut the prices of...

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 08:39am

Editorials

Sensitive Price Index: data firm yet sensitive

EDITORIAL: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) computed on weekly basis to assess the price movement of 51 essential...

Published 28 Feb, 2023 06:15am

Pakistan

Govt asks officials to ensure adequate supply of commodities during Ramazan

LAHORE: The Industries, Commerce, Investment and Skills Development (ICI&SD) Department of Punjab has issued...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Business & Finance

Business community calls for economic stability

KARACHI: Electronics and Motorcycle Dealers Alliance Karachi, and Sindh Trade Union chairman Sheikh Habib held a...

Published 21 Oct, 2022 05:57am

Editorials

Reviving NPMC

EDITORIAL: It took the government four months of runaway inflation to realise that disbanding the National Price...

Published 04 Sep, 2022 05:44am

Editorials

The people have spoken but…

EDITORIAL: The outcome of by-elections on 20 seats of the Punjab Assembly is a moment of truth which may well set a...

Published 20 Jul, 2022 05:48am

Pakistan

Punjab to request federal govt not to allow sugar export

LAHORE: Inaugurating the Chief Minister’s price dashboard for online monitoring of prices of essential commodities...

Published 09 Jun, 2022 06:18am

Pakistan

Punjab upgrades Qeemat App

LAHORE: Secretary Industries and Commerce Punjab Dr Ahmad Javed Qazi has said availability, quality and prices of...

Published 08 Jun, 2022 06:19am

Flour, sugar prices reduced in Punjab

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced relief package for the month of Ramzan to reduce the price of...

Updated 20 Apr, 2022 01:54pm

Wheat imports: Tarin asks ministry to come up with ‘accurate need’

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has asked the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to come up...

Updated 29 Mar, 2022 10:06am

Minister says there’s decline in prices of essential commodities

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Saturday said that due to the...

Updated 13 Feb, 2022 10:40am

Opinion

‘Mini-budget’: Where are provinces?

In one of his articles for this newspaper noted economist Dr Hafiz Pasha had argued, among other things, that...

Published 01 Jan, 2022 04:07am

Pakistan

PML-N vows to resist govt’s ‘mini-budget’ move

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), while rejecting the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

Published 28 Dec, 2021 03:54am

Pakistan

Prices of essential commodities showing declining trend: Fawad

LAHORE: Expressing optimism that Pakistan will soon recover from the economic crisis, Minister for Information and...

Published 28 Nov, 2021 05:38am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Feb 6	279.23
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Feb 6	279.03
USD to Japanese Yen / Feb 6	152.65
USD to Swiss Franc / Feb 6	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Feb 6	1.25
Euro to USD / Feb 6	1.04
UK LIBOR % / Feb 5	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Feb 5	6,049.46
Nasdaq / Feb 5	19,692.33
Dow Jones / Feb 5	44,873.22
India Sensex / Feb 6	78,158.10
Tokyo Nikkei / Feb 6	39,066.53
Hang Seng / Feb 6	20,891.62
FTSE 100 / Feb 6	8,693.63
Germany DAX 30 / Feb 6	21,705.71
France CAC40 / Feb 6	7,912.28

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Feb 5	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Feb 5	252,314
Petrol/Litre / Feb 6	257.13
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Feb 6	71.31
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Feb 6	2,854.03
Diesel/Litre / Feb 6	267.95
Cotton US¢/pound / Feb 6	65.90

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Silk Bank Ltd / Feb 6 Silkbank Limited(SILK)	1.20 ▲ 0.17 (16.5%)
Bank Makramah / Feb 6 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	4.17 ▲ 0.41 (10.9%)
Chashma / Feb 6 Chashma Sugar Mills Limited(CHAS)	90.72 ▲ 8.25 (10%)
Sanghar Sugar / Feb 6 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	49.39 ▲ 4.49 (10%)
Lalpir Power / Feb 6 Lalpir Power Limited(LPL)	27.95 ▲ 2.54 (10%)
First Tri-Star Mod. / Feb 6 First Tri-Star Modaraba(FTSM)	13.76 ▲ 1.25 (9.99%)
Saritow Spinning / Feb 6 Saritow Spinning Mills Limited(SSML)	21.69 ▲ 1.97 (9.99%)
Haseeb Waqas / Feb 6 Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills Limited(HWQS)	12.45 ▲ 1.13 (9.98%)
National Silk / Feb 6 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	40.81 ▲ 3.7 (9.97%)
Unicap Modaraba / Feb 6 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	3.28 ▲ 0.29 (9.7%)

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Feb 6 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9 ▼ -1 (-10%)
Tariq Corporation / Feb 6 Tariq Corporation Limited(TCORP)	18.01 ▼ -2 (-10%)
Intermarket Securities / Feb 6 Intermarket Securities Limited(IMS)	54.03 ▼ -6 (-10%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Feb 6 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	39.18 ▼ -4.35 (-9.99%)
GOC (Pak) / Feb 6 GOC (Pak) Limited.(GOC)	60.31 ▼ -6.53 (-9.77%)
Next Capital / Feb 6 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	8.90 ▼ -0.96 (-9.74%)
Suhail Jute / Feb 6 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	81.02 ▼ -8.55 (-9.55%)
Reliance Weaving / Feb 6 Reliance Weaving Mills Limited(REWM)	131 ▼ -13.74 (-9.49%)
Gadoon Textile / Feb 6 Gadoon Textile Mills Limited(GADT)	270 ▼ -27.99 (-9.39%)
Shezan Inter. / Feb 6 Shezan International Limited(SHEZ)	123 ▼ -12.59 (-9.29%)

Stock	Volume
Silk Bank Ltd / Feb 6 Silkbank Limited(SILK)	119,509,368 ▲ 0.17
WorldCall Telecom / Feb 6 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	80,117,084 ▼ -0.05
Bank Makramah / Feb 6 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	64,480,312 ▲ 0.41
Cnergyico PK / Feb 6 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	21,090,416 ▼ -0.19
K-Electric Ltd. / Feb 6 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	20,621,518 ▼ -0.1
B.O.Punjab / Feb 6 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	17,154,831 ▼ -0.24
National Bank / Feb 6 National Bank of Pakistan(NBP)	16,342,844 ▼ -3.33
Pak Refinery / Feb 6 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	14,915,543 ▼ -0.59
TRG Pak Ltd / Feb 6 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	13,119,209 ▼ -0.25
Fauji Cement / Feb 6 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	12,847,614 ▼ -1.11

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