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Rising remittance flows

EDITORIAL: Remittances surged by 34 percent year-on-year to 14.76 billion dollars July-November 2024 against 11...

Updated 12 Dec, 2024 08:03am

Business & Finance

SBA opposes increase in property tax

PESHAWAR: A meeting of the Sarhad Business Alliance (SBA) was held under the join chairmanship of Haji Ghulam Ali...

Published 25 Nov, 2024 06:36am

Editorials

The Finance Minister’s defence

EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb during his press briefing on Sunday appreciated the efforts towards...

Published 19 Nov, 2024 06:53am

Editorials

Celebrating the fiscal surplus

EDITORIAL: The government, especially the finance ministry, can’t seem to trumpet the first fiscal surplus in 24...

Published 05 Nov, 2024 03:30am

Business & Finance

Economic indicators highlighted

WASHINGTON DC: Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb attended a roundtable with institutional investors...

Published 24 Oct, 2024 06:49am

Opinion

IMF programme: lack of ingenuity?

The narrative led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is that the economy has...

Updated 21 Oct, 2024 07:07am

Editorials

IMF’s reputational risks

EDITORIAL: In documents uploaded on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) website in the early hours of this Friday...

Updated 16 Oct, 2024 08:36am

Opinion

Dated IMF staff report

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) uploaded documents early 11 October Pakistan time, nearly thirteen weeks after...

Updated 14 Oct, 2024 07:33am

IMF official supports reforms in public sector

Says Pakistan has managed to revive economic and financial stability over the past fiscal year

Updated 11 Oct, 2024 02:27pm

Perspectives

Moving away from stabilisation to industrial sector growth: there is some time

Complete independence cannot be achieved without economic stability. These words have never sounded truer. A few...

Published 11 Oct, 2024 01:12am

Opinion

IMF programme: a mixed bag of economic consequences

In the statement released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 27, it indicated that it had approved a...

Updated 04 Oct, 2024 08:29am

Business & Finance

SBP receives over $1bn first tranche of IMF loan

KARACHI: Pakistan, on Friday received over $1 billion inflows as the first tranche of a long-term loan from the IMF,...

Published 28 Sep, 2024 07:16am

$7bn EFF on Sep 25 agenda of IMF EB

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board is scheduled to take Pakistan’s 37-month Extended...

Updated 13 Sep, 2024 09:16am

BR Research

Approval by IMF board to be delayed to Oct?

It’s been almost two months since the SLA, and there is no update on when Pakistan’s program would be approved by...

Published 10 Sep, 2024 06:35am

Business & Finance

Govt debt stocks rise to Rs69.9trn

KARACHI: The federal government’s total debt stocks rose to Rs 69.6 trillion mark at the end of July 2024 primarily...

Updated 06 Sep, 2024 08:56am

Opinion

Stability versus general well-being

Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb since he took oath ten days less than six months on 12 March 2024 has...

Updated 02 Sep, 2024 07:16am

MoF, SBP inform Senate panel: Govt borrowed from IMF at 5.09pc interest rate in 2023

Senate Standing Committee on Economic Affairs seeks details of utilisation of the loan

Updated 23 Aug, 2024 11:28am

Opinion

Thank you and congratulations, Pakistan

What does it say about any person at the helm of Pakistan’s fiscal affairs when the Business Confidence Survey –...

Updated 16 Aug, 2024 10:57am

Opinion

Challenging gross financing requirements

Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund...

Updated 02 Aug, 2024 06:17am

Far behind $17.619bn annual target: $9.811bn borrowed from multiple financing sources in FY24

If IMF and UAE inflows are added, total inflows would reach $13.804 billion during fiscal year 2023-24 against target of $17.619 billion

Updated 27 Jul, 2024 10:11pm

Opinion

The way forward

Sale of state-owned entities (SOEs) and not resuscitating the non-operational Pakistan Steel Mills is the mantra of...

Updated 22 Jul, 2024 07:11am

Opinion

IMF programme, debt re-profiling, and debt restructuring

Pakistan is facing a huge challenge in terms of debt distress. Secondly, the country is stuck in a low economic...

Updated 19 Jul, 2024 07:06am

Opinion

An IMF budget or not?

Several prominent federal ministers publicly stated that the taxation measures approved by parliament on 28 June ...

Updated 08 Jul, 2024 08:43am

Markets

FY24: PSX emerges as top performer with 95pc annual return in $ terms

KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange performed exceptionally well and emerged as the top performing stock market with ...

Published 29 Jun, 2024 06:40am

Petrol, HSD and HOBC: Govt amends raise in PL to Rs70 against Rs60 limit

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has amended the increase in petroleum levy to Rs70 per litre on petrol and...

Updated 29 Jun, 2024 03:00pm

Govt proposes increase in PL rate

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has proposed an increase in petroleum levy to Rs 80 per litre on petrol and diesel...

Updated 13 Jun, 2024 09:47am

Rs30bn sell-off income target set

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has set a budgeted target of collecting Rs30 billion through privatisation...

Updated 13 Jun, 2024 09:33am

No sacred cows, everyone has to contribute to economy: Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb Tuesday forewarned that there are no sacred cows and everyone has to...

Updated 12 Jun, 2024 09:32am

Perspectives

Sovereign and strategic: looking at a budget beyond the IMF

Recently, Pakistan’s coffers were replenished with the final tranche from the IMF’s Stand-by Agreement (SBA),...

Published 04 Jun, 2024 08:00am

Business & Finance

Successful completion of 9-month SBA: Aurangzeb briefs Canadian envoy

ISLAMABAD: Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan Leslie Scanlon called on Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue...

Published 23 May, 2024 05:16am

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
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

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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