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Policy rate cut by 250bps to 15pc

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced a historic policy rate ...

Published 05 Nov, 2024 03:30am

Opinion

Govt has no business being in business

Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in a televised speech this Tuesday cleared the air on IMF (International...

Updated 07 Sep, 2024 08:58am

Imprest money: Govt weighs debit card against credit card for PSEs

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering suggesting debit instead of credit card solutions to address petty cash and...

Updated 02 Aug, 2024 09:33am

Business & Finance

KP govt initiates reforms to improve performance of 170 PSEs

PESHAWAR: The KP government has initiated reforms to improve the performance of its 170 public sector entities ...

Published 08 Jul, 2024 08:25am

Opinion

‘Railways in a mess’

This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial “Railways in a mess” carried by the newspaper yesterday. The...

Published 31 May, 2024 06:58am

Opinion

Pakistan’s economic crossroads

The socialist idea of central planning, which leads to a closed economy, has been followed by neoliberalism and...

Updated 17 May, 2024 06:12am

Business & Finance

Political uncertainty impacting economy: SBP

KARACHI: Despite some improvement in macroeconomic indicators, economy continues to grapple with the structural...

Published 15 May, 2024 05:47am

Two power plants: PD shares with PC issues hindering sell-off process

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has reportedly shared issues with Privatisation Commission (PC) that are hindering...

Updated 16 Mar, 2024 03:07pm

Govt moves NPP, GPP sell-off process forward

Cabinet Committee on Privatisation directs Power Division to submit timelines for each of the issues hindering the process of privatisation of Nandipur Power Plant and Guddu Power Plant

Updated 29 Feb, 2024 09:36am

Business & Finance

Purchase of engineering goods: PSEs asked to prefer local firms

ISLAMABAD: Commerce Ministry (MoC) has urged Public Sector Entities (PSEs) to give preference to domestic companies...

Updated 31 Jan, 2024 09:33am

Procurement of net-metering-based solar PV systems: PPIB set to approve model bidding documents for PSEs

ISLAMABAD: The Board of Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) is all set to approve model bidding...

Updated 17 Jan, 2024 08:55am

Business & Finance

LCCI president awards â€˜Best Performance Certificates to conveners 150 bodies

LAHORE: President of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry Kashif Anwar Saturday awarded Best Performance...

Published 26 Nov, 2023 03:31am

Shamshad lists factors behind SOEs’ Rs500bn losses

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar on Thursday said external interference, lack of...

Updated 22 Sep, 2023 08:46am

Business & Finance

PSEB bars ministries, PSEs from engaging with particular IT firm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) Limited, an arm of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom,...

Published 20 Jun, 2023 03:16am

Opinion

Surging govt debt

The statistics on total debt of Pakistan as of end-December 2022 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank ...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Most of country’s PSEs ripe for sale or closure?

PM for expediting sell-off process

Updated 09 Feb, 2023 08:51am

Business & Finance

Loss-making PSEs: business community leader advocates sell-off

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, and...

Published 25 Jan, 2023 06:25am

Jul-Mar period: Outstanding govt guarantees stand at $6.06 billion

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan’s outstanding guarantees stood at $ 6.066 billion during the first three...

Updated 11 Jun, 2022 10:21am

Ministry stops PSEs from depositing funds in private banks

Withdraws at least four office memoranda that allowed Public Sector Entities and local/ autonomous bodies to deposit their funds in private banks

Updated 25 May, 2022 09:41am

BR Research

GDP rebase long overdue

The talk of the town in economic circles right now is that Pakistan’s total debt and liabilities stock has crossed...

Published 26 Nov, 2021 06:34am

PSEs big revenue drag: Country’s 25pc cos are ‘zombie’ firms: FBR

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has estimated that approximately 25 percent of the companies in...

Updated 10 Nov, 2021 09:41am

Ex-officio members: MoF asked to review nominations/appointments on PSEs’ boards

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet has directed the Ministry of Finance to review nominations/appointments of ex-officio...

Published 23 May, 2021 03:06am

Progress observed in 18 PSEs’ sell-off process

ISLAMABAD: A meeting to review and discuss the progress made so far in the privatisation of the PSEs was held here ...

Published 20 May, 2021 04:26am

Pakistan

Soomro stresses need to revive PSM

The aim of the weekly meeting was to identify the bottlenecks in each transaction at every stage and there has been a considerable progress in 18 identified entities.

Published 19 May, 2021 07:01pm

Pakistan

Transactions of various PSEs: PC Board’s meeting to review progress

ISLAMABAD: A Privatisation Commission Board’s meeting is likely to be held in the current week to review the ...

Updated 27 Apr, 2021 10:09am

Pakistan

PSEs’ sell-off progress reviewed

ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission Thursday held a weekly review meeting on the progress being made for the...

Updated 16 Apr, 2021 09:57am

Top vacant positions in PSEs: PM likely to take action against ministries

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to take action against the Ministries for not complying with Federal...

Published 12 Apr, 2021 03:59am

Sell-off process of PSEs by PC: Hafeez incensed by ‘delaying tactics’

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has reportedly grilled Privatisation Commission (PC) for using...

Published 29 Mar, 2021 06:05am

Pakistan

18 PSEs picked, but not a single privatised since 2018

ISLAMABAD: The government has selected 18 Public Sector Entities (PSEs) for privatisation, however it has not been...

Published 21 Mar, 2021 04:05am

ADB says ‘slower’ recovery could cause delay in reforms

ISLAMABAD: A slower-than-expected recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying social pressures might delay...

Published 29 Jan, 2021 04:55am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 18	278.55
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 18	278.25
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 18	153.63
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 18	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 18	1.27
Euro to USD / Dec 18	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 17	6,050.61
Nasdaq / Dec 17	20,109.06
Dow Jones / Dec 17	43,449.90
India Sensex / Dec 18	80,231.76
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 18	39,081.71
Hang Seng / Dec 18	19,857.31
FTSE 100 / Dec 18	8,222.99
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 18	20,267.35

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 17	241,860
Petrol/Litre / Dec 18	252.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 18	70.43
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 18	17,585
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 18	2,644.54
Diesel/Litre / Dec 18	255.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
LSE Capital / Dec 18 LSE Capital Limited(LSECL)	6.70 ▲ 1.00 (17.54%)
S.G.Power / Dec 18 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9.17 ▲ 1.00 (12.24%)
Faran Sugar (R) / Dec 18 Faran Sugar Mills Limited (R)(FRSMR)	9.43 ▲ 1.00 (11.86%)
Gulshan Sp. / Dec 18 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.47 ▲ 0.42 (10.37%)
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 18 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	11.06 ▲ 1.01 (10.05%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 18 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.50 ▲ 1.05 (10.05%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 18 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	61.55 ▲ 5.60 (10.01%)
Attock Cement / Dec 18 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	259.27 ▲ 23.57 (10.00%)
AL-Ghazi Tractors / Dec 18 Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited(AGTL)	564.23 ▲ 51.29 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
National Bank / Dec 18 National Bank of Pakistan(NBP)	66.38 ▼ -7.38 (-10.01%)
First Imrooz Mod. / Dec 18 First Imrooz Modaraba(FIMM)	180.01 ▼ -19.99 (-10.00%)
Imperial Limited / Dec 18 Imperial Limited(IML)	20.16 ▼ -2.24 (-10.00%)
J.A.Textile / Dec 18 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	44.37 ▼ -4.93 (-10.00%)
Macter Int. Ltd / Dec 18 Macter International Limited(MACTER)	331.40 ▼ -36.82 (-10.00%)
Mari Petroleum / Dec 18 Mari Petroleum Company Limited(MARI)	728.78 ▼ -80.98 (-10.00%)
Synthetic Prod / Dec 18 Synthetic Products Enterprises Limited(SPEL)	45.89 ▼ -5.10 (-10.00%)
Biafo Ind. / Dec 18 Biafo Industries Limited(BIFO)	198.85 ▼ -22.08 (-9.99%)
Bilal Fibres / Dec 18 Bilal Fibres Limited(BILF)	12.61 ▼ -1.40 (-9.99%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	151,921,663 ▼ -0.15
Pak Elektron / Dec 18 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	107,502,606 ▲ 0.34
Cnergyico PK / Dec 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	67,234,901 ▼ -0.51
B.O.Punjab / Dec 18 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	60,136,151 ▲ 0.13
Pak Refinery / Dec 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	55,973,468 ▼ -1.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	46,669,770 ▼ -0.33
Sui South Gas / Dec 18 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	42,923,281 ▲ 1.67
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Dec 18 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	36,897,118 ▼ -0.46
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 18 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	36,858,206 ▲ 1.01

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