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Lowest since Jan ’21: Sept CPI inflation drops to 6.9pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation decreased to 6.9 per cent on year-on-year basis in...

Published 02 Oct, 2024 06:19am

Business & Finance

First single-digit stat in nearly 3 years: Annual inflation slows to 9.6pc

KARACHI: Country’s annual consumer price inflation rate slowed to 9.6% in August, the first single-digit reading ...

Published 03 Sep, 2024 06:27am

Opinion

Inflation decline and no feel-good factor

The July inflation data was released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on the 1 of August, showing a ...

Published 12 Aug, 2024 06:36am

BR Research

WPI bottomed out – what is next?

The single-digit Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly lasted only a month, as June 2024 saw the WPI at 10.6...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 08:36am

BR Research

WPI bottoming out?

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 9.9 percent for May 2024 is the first single digit reading in 40 months. The WPI...

Published 05 Jun, 2024 06:43am

BR Research

Energy prices take charge of WPI

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 13.9 percent for April 2024 was at a 39-month low. It should spell good news for...

Published 07 May, 2024 09:30am

BR Research

WPI: Much more than it shows

While the last two years have piled on a misery of historic proportions on retail prices, the seeds were sown a year...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 09:18am

Business & Finance

Expert throws light on recent inflation trends

LAHORE: Pakistan has witnessed a gradual decline in inflation for the third consecutive month, marking its lowest...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 05:29am

BR Research

WPI: Gas and power at the core

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for February 2024 clocked in at 18.66 percent – at a 31-month low, and surely comes...

Published 11 Mar, 2024 08:31am

Dec CPI inflation jumps 29.7pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.7 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Updated 02 Jan, 2024 09:54am

BR Research

Core inflation takes centrestage

National headline inflation expectedly cooled off from last month – clocking in at 26.89 percent year-on-year,...

Published 02 Nov, 2023 09:28am

BR Research

WPI: Non-food prices take over

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) registered another month-on-month increase – for the fourth month running – clocking...

Published 05 Oct, 2023 08:59am

Business & Finance

Sept CPI rises 4 percentage points to 31.4pc MoM

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 4 percentage points in September to 31.4 percent against the...

Published 03 Oct, 2023 06:02am

BR Research

Inflation 1, construction 0

The trajectory of cement prices amid lacklustre demand is hard to ignore. Latest numbers from Pakistan Bureau of...

Published 25 Sep, 2023 08:59am

BR Research

WPI – refusing to budge

Such are the times that a 24 percent year-on-year increase in wholesale price index (WPI) is being viewed as a...

Published 06 Sep, 2023 07:30am

Business & Finance

Aug CPI inflation soars 27.4pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 27.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in ...

Published 02 Sep, 2023 06:30am

BR Research

Wholesale price hike: Far from over

If petroleum does not do it, electricity will. That has been the story of wholesale prices for a while as WPI index...

Published 04 Aug, 2023 08:25am

Business & Finance

July CPI inflation rises 28.3pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 28.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis in July...

Published 02 Aug, 2023 06:47am

Business & Finance

June CPI inflation rises to 29.4pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in June...

Published 04 Jul, 2023 05:07am

Opinion

FY23: Uncovering drivers of economic performance

The National Account numbers for FY2023 have been published and, unfortunately, they paint a truly dismal picture of...

Published 30 May, 2023 03:37am

Business & Finance

Food pushes inflation to record 36.4pc in April

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 36.4 per cent on a year-on-year basis in ...

Published 03 May, 2023 06:35am

Business & Finance

India’s March wholesale inflation eases to 30-month low on easing input prices

NEW DELHI: India’s annual wholesale-price based inflation (WPI) eased to the lowest in nearly 30 months, as input...

Published 17 Apr, 2023 01:31pm

BR Research

WPI signalling more retail inflation

The record high CPI reading in March 2023 was a foregone conclusion back in August and September 2022 – when the...

Published 14 Apr, 2023 08:55am

BR Research

Inflation: Wheels are coming off

Just when you think you have reached the peak – another one stares in your eyes. Pakistan’s headline national CPI...

Published 02 Mar, 2023 08:55am

Business & Finance

Feb CPI jumps 31.5pc, highest rate in nearly 50 years

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 31.5 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Published 02 Mar, 2023 06:23am

Jan food prices rise 43pc YoY

CPI-based inflation hits 48-year high

Updated 02 Feb, 2023 09:10am

BR Research

Wholesale prices ease off a high base

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly came down for the third straight month –recorded at 28 percent for...

Updated 06 Dec, 2022 10:09am

Opinion

Inflation: the fault is in ourselves

Inflation has reached politically untenable levels in the ongoing year, considerably higher than the high rates...

Published 05 Dec, 2022 06:09am

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

BR Research

WPI peaked – CPI maybe not!

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was seen peaking in August 2022, as highlighted in the space earlier. At 32.6 ...

Published 08 Nov, 2022 08:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 28	281.26
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 28	281.06
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 28	142.05
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 28	0.82
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 28	1.34
Euro to USD / Apr 28	1.14
UK LIBOR % / Apr 24	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 28	5,528.75
India Sensex / Apr 28	80,218.37
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 28	35,839.99
Nasdaq / Apr 28	17,366.13
Hang Seng / Apr 28	21,971.96
FTSE 100 / Apr 28	8,417.34
Dow Jones / Apr 28	40,227.59
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 28	22,271.67
France CAC40 / Apr 28	7,573.76

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 28	62.05
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 28	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 28	297,582
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 28	3,347.70
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 28	67.55
Petrol/Litre / Apr 29	254.63
Diesel/Litre / Apr 29	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Ruby Textile / Apr 28 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	7.98 ▲ 0.78 (10.83%)
ECOPACK Ltd / Apr 28 Ecopack Limited(ECOP)	34.71 ▲ 3.16 (10.02%)
EMCO Industries / Apr 28 Emco Industries Limited(EMCO)	38.36 ▲ 3.49 (10.01%)
Sunrays Textile / Apr 28 Sunrays Textile Mills Limited(SUTM)	172.02 ▲ 15.64 (10%)
S.S.Oil / Apr 28 S.S.Oil Mills Limited(SSOM)	392.76 ▲ 35.71 (10%)
Shakarganj / Apr 28 Shakarganj Limited(SML)	43.58 ▲ 3.96 (9.99%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Apr 28 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	3,608.54 ▲ 326.25 (9.94%)
Popular Islamic / Apr 28 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.89 ▲ 1.25 (9.89%)
Supernet Ltd. / Apr 28 Supernet Limited (GEM)(GEMSPNL)	23.79 ▲ 1.96 (8.98%)
MCB Invest. Managmt. / Apr 28 MCB Investment Management Limited(MCBIM)	92.81 ▲ 7.54 (8.84%)

Stock	Price
Lucky Cement / Apr 28 Lucky Cement Limited(LUCK)	358.88 ▼ -1392.57 (-79.51%)
Ghani Chemworld / Apr 28 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	7 ▼ -1 (-12.5%)
Dewan Textile / Apr 28 Dewan Textile Mills Limited(DWTM)	6.51 ▼ -0.79 (-10.82%)
Pak Gen.Ins. / Apr 28 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	8.74 ▼ -0.99 (-10.17%)
Matco Foods Ltd / Apr 28 Matco Foods Limited(MFL)	39.84 ▼ -4.43 (-10.01%)
Bunnys Limited / Apr 28 Bunnys Limited(BNL)	30.75 ▼ -3.42 (-10.01%)
Cyan Limited / Apr 28 Cyan Limited(CYAN)	36.20 ▼ -4.02 (-10%)
Atlas Battery / Apr 28 Atlas Battery Limited(ATBA)	292.11 ▼ -32.46 (-10%)
Dawood Lawrencepur / Apr 28 Dawood Lawrencepur Limited(DLL)	216.10 ▼ -24 (-10%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / Apr 28 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	78.07 ▼ -8.67 (-10%)

Stock	Volume
B.O.Punjab / Apr 28 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	23,705,546 ▼ -0.41
Power Cement / Apr 28 Power Cement Limited(POWER)	21,585,733 ▼ -0.99
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 28 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	18,309,847 ▼ -0.03
Pak Elektron / Apr 28 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	18,055,841 ▼ -2.41
Maple Leaf Cement / Apr 28 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	14,648,408 ▼ -0.99
Sui North Gas / Apr 28 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited(SNGP)	13,187,141 ▼ -4.28
Ghani Chemworld / Apr 28 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	12,616,978 ▼ -1
Cnergyico PK / Apr 28 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	12,357,232 ▼ -0.28
Sui South Gas / Apr 28 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	11,366,687 ▼ -2.77
Lucky Cement / Apr 28 Lucky Cement Limited(LUCK)	9,953,480 ▼ -1392.57

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