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- Islamic banks in liquidity spurt
- SBP 3QFY13 Report: good advice, bad timing
- PML-N: the lion from Oz
- KSE: irrational exuberance?
- SBPs Special Section 3.1
- Tax base broadening: more of the same old
- Where is the argeted subsidy?
- Arrested development?
- The brighter side of budget
- Dar’s daring challenge(s)
- Energy sector and political will
- Debt: the ogre is upon us!
- Enabling the means to achieve growth
- Growth – under par – again
- Debt obesity
- Why power sector reform can pay big time
- Lalpir Power - looks strong
- Big brother watching
- Energy ministry: the first forgotten promise
- Temoch-cracy
- CNG - not quite the poor mans fuel
- Balanced fertilization to combat malnutrition
- Patwari 2.0
- IMF: Oops! We did it again
- KESC: a success story for privatisation
- Tapping solar power: high cost, higher rewards
- Whats on Nawazs platter?
- Silver: not for the faint-hearted
- PSDP a tale of unfinished endeavours
- Cementing hopes
- Plans awaiting implementation
- 122 million stuck with 2G networks
- Kharif sowing hampered
- Islamic banks leading house financing
- The impressive return(s) of KSE
- May CPI
- Growth in mobile banking
- Appointing CEOs the professional way
- PTR: time to shelve a failed experiment
- Of Saud-isation
- Is coal the only hope?
- Pak-China currency swap – wait and watch
- KSE: narrowing base, thinning choicesKSE: narrowing base, thinning choices
- Clearing the circular debt
- SME Sector: banks step child?
- Islamic Banking: Past provides impetus for future
- Getting dizzy at the top?
- Budget FY14: a national agenda needed
- Turning over the turnover tax
- Indo-Pak trade: get to the specifics please
- Say no to Milk tax
- OMC sector hopes to become charmful
- Need to learn from KESC
- Plan9: incubating passion
- China cheaper, period!
- Consumer financing: the highs and lows
- A fruitful summer
- Farmers hopeful of urea subsidy
- Corporate tax cut vital for FDI
- Mini budget, a mini stunt
- The rise and fall of global brands
- For pharma MNCs, it’s all about pricing
- PIB auction signals rate cut expectations
- PMEX-1, KCA-0, but the match isn over yet
- The odds of rate cut
- Key takeaways from the May 11 elections
- Friendship needs economic boost
- Dealing with CNG
- Whats ahead for oil prices?
- No more debt woes?
- Power sector – getting the priorities right
- Remittances and skilled workforce
- State-backed mortgages
- Branchless synergies
- The hot seat at Finance Ministry
- FDI: new promises, new hopes
- The promise of an integrated energy ministry
- Wheat hoarders in for a rude awakening
- Fiscal deficit: unenviable inheritance
- PPP: major setback
- Success of PML-N: What the debt market has to say?
- Wanted: export boost
- Future of brokerage
- Should Karachi brace for increased loadshedding?
- Voting for a better economy
- Dismal state of education
- Energy crisis and Punjabs industry
- The big five banks
- Karachi remains with MQM - but with more competition
- PSDP disbursements
- Remittances show steady growth
- Rigging, no rigging
- Driving with the brakes on
- Foresight in preventive healthcare
- Let’s talk Growth
- Need for competition framework
- KSE: Let the good times roll!
- Peace in Karachi and MQM
- Challenges to roaring lion
- Options for PML-N
- When Pakistan spoke
- Pondering over PPP and ANP defeats
- Between party and personality
- Emotional campaigns
- ‘Naya Siyasatdan’
- What’s next for the E&P sector?
- KSE-100 after elections
- Voting on infrastructure
- Threat of violence and voter turnout
- Meezan Bank outsmarts conventional banks
- Are election campaigns stabilizing forex market?
- Water security - high time to pull policy levers
- Whats behind the real estate rise?
- Summit Bank: Focusing low-cost deposits
- USFs need some servicing
- Will the voters turn up?
- Is FBR against salaried individuals?
- Misinformation lowers cotton output
- Number juggling doesn make the picture rosy
- Branchless banking making great strides
- Askari Bank Limited
- IPR protection: creating awareness is the first step
- Lower inflation likely in coming months
- NBP: sluggish in 1QCY13
- Cost cutting helps MCB
- ICH saga concludes, but concerns remain
- Bank Alfalah: pushing the envelope!
- PPL gasping for gas
- ICTs in political manifestos
- Gloves are coming off in political campaigns
- KSE-100 – jitters? What jitters?
- UBL: Banking on income diversification
- FFC - impressive again
- Engro banks on fertilizer strength
- Consistent improvement, that’s Lucky
- Faysal Bank: close to the core
- Urea demand picks, inventory drops
- Hubco to continue electrify earnings after demerger
- PSMC: less than stellar quarter
- Knocking the IMF doors
- OGDC: High exploration costs restrict earnings
- Allied Bank: silver bullets backfire
- National Foods - a very palatable performance
- Fatima Fertilizer goes strong
- NA-250: Karachis toughest constituency
- BRICS bank: dream or reality
- NIB Bank: small but smart
- What makes the youth tick?
- Record imports; but why?
- PSO cannot ignore the circular debt
- Soneri Bank: Is the focus on core banking eternal?
- China slows; world worries
- NIT: steady approach, solid returns
- HBL: Will tough time last for long?
- Farming by cellphone
- ICT: Pakistans descending global ranking
- M2 paints a poor picture
- 11 May 2013: Karachi to brace close political contest
- ICI: profitability up, but margins down
- Nestle: saved by efficiency
- Current account deficit firmly pushed in the red
- Engro Foods goes on its merry way
- Indus Motors: Fortuner to shape fortunes?
- GSK - exports can lift growth
- Little hopes for FDI
- PSO: A growing giant
- DGKC promises to impress more
- Auto Industry: A quick flashback and way forward
- The battle of South Punjab
- Gold back to old grounds
- POL - production woes continue
- APL - payouts depend on Chevrons acquisition
- PTCL: First quarter results set the right tone
- Textile sector - where is the value addition
- Fashion Pakistan Week
- Shifting sands of monetary decisions
- Fiscal fears
- GDP growth pinned on industrial sector
- Mixed news on the external sector
- Will 1+1=3 for APL?
- The worst seems over for cement exports
- Decelerating remittance growth
- The MPS riddle
- 3G fiasco offers lessons to the next government
- PTI manifesto
- Karachi – The political fortress of MQM
- Food prices and the PPP-led government
- Next Generation
- Celebrated campaigns
- Balochistan - pinning hopes on democracy
- NSS - The feast that feeds the beast of govt borrowing
- Which political party really drives the economy?
- Party elections in FATA: Hundred years in the making
- Can the world really do away with the poor?
- Fertilizer firms: no gas, more woes
- The golden slide
- Youth unemployment: the emerging challenge
- What determines voter turnout?
- CCP catches up with FFC, Engro
- 2013: the boom year for online advertising in Pakistan
- Development dilemma
- Global food prices decline: where are the effects?
- Cyprus – a stark warning to EU nations
- CPIs slide - the mystery goes on
- Broadening broad money
- Politics on the airwaves
- IMF head in the limelight once more
- BRICS leading the shift in global investment
- Indus Basin – cooperation not confrontation
- Low urea inventory signals more imports
- Of bleeding cellular subscriptions
- Smart schools: smart way of (l)earning
- The Phoenix rises: most new firms registered in four years
- LNG - promising and pricey
- Tourism firms leading new company registrations
- Railway privatisation: not as promising as promised?
- Global economic growth: towards a gradual recovery
- Will Googles Motorola Mobility bet pay off?
- Shrinking spreads, dwindling savings
- Broadband in Pakistan
- The oriental giant moves strong
- A country texting away
- India attempts to make more people food secure
- Where Pakistan stands in HDR ranking 2013
- Pakistan Business Council dumps PTI, lauds PML (N)
- Pak Suzukis taxiing ride through CY12
- 8MFY13: contraction in trade deficit
- Parliamentary Committee on Caretaker PM: Don lose this opportunity!
- Large scale manufacturing: keeping up appearances
- Tough time on Cypriots
- PTA Annual Report: Telecom industry bounced back in FY12
- Power sector and Caretaker: what lies behind those dark curtains?
- Tighter noose around banks bottom lines
- C/A descends deep into red
- Germany – an example to follow for other eurozone countries?
- Gold: luster’s just dim, not lost
- KP: The fight is on for National Assembly seats
- FDI report card – 5 years of the ugly truth
- PIB auctions: lazy yet watchful bankers
- Development in Democracy
- Thai rice pledging: Time to wake up and smell the coffee!?
- Water woes and economic loss
- Decline in cellular subscriptions
- Is a rate cut in order for the eurozone?
- Egypt and Pakistan-partners in economic mismanagement
- Remittances - a vital lifeline for the country
- Auto industry: seesawing fortunes
- Energy Future: a drawn-out enigma
- PSDP spending continues as govt approaches its end of term
- US economic recovery
- Womens struggle in Pakistani workplaces
- PML-N election manifesto: hits and misses
- Surveys galore: PPP, PML-N or PTI, who stands the best chance?
- PML-N unveils rational energy policy
- Big five: Now they strive
- Cement Sector: no tough time in sight
- Whats in store for oil prices?
- Who will they vote for?
- Renewable energy needs government support
- Telecommuting: yay or nay?
- Dropping interest rates - who is the beneficiary?
- A shopping trip to the city ablaze
- Wheres the money?
- The rulers of high speed internet
- Optimistic Indian budget for challenging economic times
- Of Pakistans food producing sector
- CPI’s rising irrelevance for discount rate
- Global real estate in 2013
- Research pokes holes in government’s flood response
- The view from Gajju Matta
- Its gold, but it isn golden anymore?
- Global automotive industry: shifting sands, new battlegrounds
- Hubco: going great guns
- Unilever Pakistan: the growth story continues
- Chinese stocks: a boon to many, curse for some?
- National Bank: strong balance sheet but not so strong profits
- Emerging markets: Gaining the glow
- Britains austerity undeterred by downgrade
- UBL going strong
- Upstream sector 1HFY13
- The horsemeat scandal and rise of investors
- Electronic banking transactions on the rise
- Indus Motors: hoping for a better tomorrow
- Designer lawns spring again
- Trade deficit narrows in 7MFY13
- PSO - earnings delight shareholders
- A happening 2012 with low margins for ICI
- Prime time to leave Finance Ministry!
- OGDC - on way to a stellar FY13
- Large scale manufacturing: growing by fits and starts
- Asia - House to the most expensive and the cheapest cities
- Indo-British friendship aiming for the skies
- Grubbing the Islamic Banking Industry of Pakistan
- Current Account: surplus withering away
- Nestle: rising high on consumerism
- Global employment: weak now, weak later
- Other income saves the day for ABL
- FDI needs unequal attention
- Smitten by gold
- Unilever Pakistan: delisting does not mean disinterest
- Boosting FDI inflows: bet on India and China
- All thats behind those cheap airlines
- Surge in revenues for PTCL in 1HFY13
- Gold slides some more
- Rule of law for economic strength
- HBLs assets grow - profits flat
- Depending on remittances
- NetSol posts robust results in 1HFY13
- Brownie points for DGKC in 1HFY13
- Rise of the Mobile Internet
- EUs historical budget cut
- Doing Development
- Of Karachi violence & segmented real estate boom
- Beijing cares to strike an economic balance
- Unwarranted Unilever delisting
- MCB Bank: Flat top line yet impressive profits
- BlackBerry faces a steep climb back
- MPS: A test for the central bank
- Time for Plan B
- Global Aviation: Out of squall in 2013?
- CPI – signs of strain more visible
- Oil flows and other income keep PPL afloat
- CGAP: Pakistan is a laboratory for G2P payments
- Evolving times, evolving means of communication
- Bringing biomass into the energy mix?
- Indo-Pak trade normalization: the romanticism, the despondency
- Consumerism, government borrowing fuelling demand
- The energy sector mess
- No respite in core inflation and inflationary expectations
- ADGs buyback: With SingTel gone, Warid single again...
- Lotte Pakistan PTA
- Food prices soften as hunger lingers
- ‘Though this be madness yet there is method in it’
- Honda Atlas Cars: Gunning the engine in 3QFY12
- Need for Wi-Fi
- Lucky Cement: concrete performance in 1HFY13
- Attock Petroleum - missing it
- POL: Production hiccups continue
- Engro Foods sets the bar higher
- Of measles, inadequate vaccination and floods
- Banning YouTube? More tact needed
- Reduction in trade deficit during 1HFY13
- Fauji Fertilizer remains afloat
- Global economy: handle with care
- Discomforting silence of SBP, Ministry of Finance
- US fracking faster than expected!
- Global labour markets: no recovery in sight
- Currency is in equilibrium
- China to brace unconventional demographic changes
- A world of risk
- C/A surplus in 1HFY13: don’t read too much into it!
- Of household spending patterns
- The Argentine dolores de cabeza comes to USA
- Datas role in financial inclusion
- Time for some eal growth, developing countries!
- Germany: Pockets of hopes amid global storms
- Improvement in FDI overshadowed by political instability
- Debt ceiling can suffocate the oil prices sharply
- Of qualified competition in the chartered accountancy profession
- Bears back on the KSE?
- Wheat crisis: Real or induced?
- Making gold less golden for Indians
- Gold: Entering 2013 with a stable stride
- 2013: Subdued growth forecast for global IT spending
- Global aviation picking up
- Shielding the saviour - remittances
- IndoPak - fiddling on economics and politics
- Exploiting the benefits of crowdsourcing
- 2013: IMF bailout loan inevitable, but timing uncertain
- Potential backlash prevents AIG from joining lawsuit
- Auto industry still engaged in struggle
- The shadows are growing longer
- The perfect storm looms ever closer
- Where shadows veg out
- Reserve money bomb
- 2013: Need to revive the telecom sector prospects
- When Karachiites are wounded, the economy bleeds
- Cement sector enjoying the FY13 ride
- From the American Dream to back-to-home
- Teaching Pakistan; one SMS at a time
- Eurozone crisis - bust to boom in 2013?
- Born in the best?
- 2013: Weak global economy is strong reality
- 2012: a quick and grim recap
- A case of deplorable healthcare
- Don discount the Republicans yet
- What is (not) in numbers?
- Can economic growth reach Pakistans poor?
- From made in China to innovated in China
- A break in CPI’s southward journey
- The election year gas pricing
- The saga of YouTube ban
- 1HFY13: PSDP spending exceeds target
- From globalisation to de-globalisation?
- Flight 2013: taking-off the fiscal cliff?
- Turkish shows: killing culture and industry, or just an eye-opener?
- Unlocking private investment: Europe’s next big challenge
- Three reasons for a financial crisis in 2013
- Should I stay or should I grow?
- Branchless banking momentum continues
- Bigger than the iPad - Saving the World
- PSF: dump no more
- A collaborative microfinance model for small scale growers
- Seasons greetings in the electronic world
- Changing faces of gift giving and retail shopping
- Doing business in Pakistan can, and should, improve
- Pakistans private sector: down in the dumps
- Trade deficit declines in November
- Microfinance access and the Pakistani Female Entrepreneur
- Of Pakistan-Malaysia trade
- Civil service not so civil
- 3G auction: renewed efforts to bear fruition this time?
- Pakistan amongst the top victims of terrorism
- Current account vulnerable again
- Weaker global IPO market in 2012 could rebound in 2013
- China: from unstable to sustainable growth
- The usual suspects lend to small-time growth in LSM
- Mission: MBA; Destination: China!
- Immediate need for prioritizing public spending on education
- Rupee: Not so nervous 90s
- Branchless banking and the new arrivals
- In search of energy security and sustainability
- Government greatly influencing monetary policy decisions
- The multiple-device era
- Grexit wounded, but not dead yet
- Social medias efficacy
- The business of Indo-Pak trade
- A nod for immigration, or not?
- MPS - mixed sentiments
- Compressing CNG - way to go
- Auto industry: another tough month
- Oil and rupee depreciation driving remittances higher
- Global food prices ease; Wheat supply set to tighten
- Innovation through the global lens
- Saving RIM from RIP: all eyes on BB10
- Global Aviation: A sea-change required for growth
- Religious Tourism should be the way forward
- Our fiscal cliff?
- Cement sector: High on the hog
- Mac to come back home
- Pakistan: No brownie points for effort in CPI 2012
- Gold seesawing at the tip of the fiscal cliff
- Saudi America not happening...
- Telecom indicators beg for positive developments
- Far away from the rule of law
- Food prices - back to the north?
- Global Oil - Supply prospects brighten but risks still linger
- Post-SBA policy prescription
- Peace-building and the private sector
- Inflation, inflation, have you bottomed?
- Unilever plans to delist; incites investor interest
- Automobile industry: doom or boom?
- CNG: the blame game
- No more morning coffee with Google news?
- While the sun shines…
- Wheat: larger lags, smaller leads
- Software development and governments role
- Pakistan-India investment liberalization
- From e-commerce to m-commerce
- Breathing new life into the textile sector
- Factory fires highlight myriad problems of labourers
- Urea off-take hits new low
- Call for weaving of the social safety net
- Of Guddi Bajis, rural penetration and Unilever
- Strategy: Secure CSF inflow, bridge finance
- Curing cellular curfews
- Competition collaboration – CCP and academia
- Trade deficit: the October slide
- Islamic Banking: Rising over cynicism
- Dry fruit prices hit a high note
- Of late night packages
- Sustainable Transportation: Paving a road for better Asia
- MFN status to India likely to crush local agriculture
- October 2012: good for C/A, bad for BOP
- Moody’s bends Eiffel Tower down
- In pursuit of climatic serenity
- Tax Amnesty: controversial, but worth a shot!
- PSDP spending outguns the timeline
- D-8: the right move for changing global trade dynamics
- FDI becoming more of a challenge
- LSM stats show the first hints of positivity
- Changing faces of gold demand
- Facebook bandwagon: to jump or not to jump?
- Lending for savings
- Consumption: economic challenge for China’s new leadership
- NA passes Education Bill; progress continues to remain slow
- FAO trims food prices; brings down grain forecasts
- Fostering South Asian Development: What are the drivers?
- Remittances on a record spree
- 3G Auction - three failed attempts
- Auto industry: Drastic times call for drastic measures
- NIT: the consistent fund
- EU austerity versus growth
- Obamas re-election: whammy for coal industry
- Need a new benchmark to price oil?
- Financial system on the hopes or on ropes?
- Pakistan: lagging behind in global prosperity rankings
- Cliffs and ceilings too hard for the US
- Markets of the future: the many faces of retail sector
- Pakistan: Lagging behind in global prosperity rankings
- ICH saga prolongs
- Being an entrepreneur - not that easy!
- Automobile industry hard hit by the Euro crisis
- UBL leads the way
- Gold sitting at the edge of US elections
- Spain slithering towards a bailout
- Chicken and tomatoes pull CPI down
- Samsung rules the smartphone district
- Global aviation: turbulence ahead!
- HBL marches on
- Dreams for value-addition in textile go down the drain
- Sub-Saharan Africa: sustaining growth amid global slowdown
- Engro Corporation: contrasting tales
- PPL - Oil flows boost 1QFY13 profits
- The Bank of Punjab - coming out of hot water
- NPL provisioning hits Faysal Bank
- Solid start for Netsol in FY13
- Global meat production: Why Pakistan can win big
- Gloom and doom for steelmakers
- Suzuki, other auto manufacturers cry wolf
- PSO: Inventory gains, volume growth boost earnings
- Lucky off to solid start in FY13
- Reining in the SMS spammers
- NBP posts healthy profit
- PIB Auction: Clueless on long-term rates
- DG Khan Cement performance buoys
- ICI takes a dip on margins
- Bank Alfalah: the path to prosperity
- OGDC building up for FY13
- LOTPTA mired by low PTA prices
- Tri-Pak Films: Gearing up for flight
- Other income makes ABLs day
- Trade deficit narrows
- FFC stays afloat
- Packages: In need of immediate revamping
- FY13 heaves Indus Motors in gloom
- No litigation, no write-offs!
- FFBL hoping for a better finish
- Lube segment gnawing NRL’s earnings
- T-bill auction: Expecting more rate cuts?
- Production glitches smear 1QFY13 for POL
- Engro Foods provides a bigger bang for the buck
- Foreign investment - a sad beginning of FY13
- PTCL: VSS in time, saves expenses down the line
- MCB Bank: Modest growth on lower provisioning
- Healthier profits for Attock Petroleum Limited
- Fatima Fertilizer
- Nestle enjoying the ride
- Paradox of falling interest rates
- Paving the new Silk Road
- Eid-ul-Azha preparations on an upsurge
- LSM growth stays lackadaisical
- Cement sector buoyed for FY13
- Zong leading the MNP race
- MEBL rides on strong deposit growth
- Curious case of money creation
- ICH is for real, and it’s ON
- Auto sales tame down
- Of recent petroleum price revisions
- Remittances - large and resilient
- Conversion to Thar coal – way to go
- Naegleria: Prevention is the best defence
- Huawei, ZTE: Victims of US Presidential battle?
- Liquidity injection still needed
- What branchless banking needs!
- Global cereal crop prospects floundering
- Speedy PSDP spending
- Drone attacks: International media also raising voice
- Harnessing the shadow economy
- Where have all the exporters gone?
- Women participation: a challenge for employment in Pakistan
- Will the ECB measures revitalise eurozone?
- Tax Amnesty Schemes: Focus on system, not on tax tally
- Its all about brands!
- Punjabs social progress remains murky
- KSE: What next? Bulls or bears?
- Monetary Policy: Great expectations and some surprises?
- ADB slashes regional growth prospects
- The gloom before the boom
- Resuming the 3G auction process
- Are the clouds in global aviation clearing?
- YouTube ban and the awry aftermath
- Is Pakistans informal economy land-locking progress?
- Indian reforms: Not quite a done deal
- Policy space: Way out for emerging economies
- Textile sector in utter bliss
- Business confidence & what it means for job seekers
- The broadband bind
- Hiding from Poverty
- Of cyberspace freedom
- Farmers await urea imports
- Drone attacks counterproductive; Haunting civilians
- What the Asian miracle can teach Pakistan
- Oil prices going nowhere
- Major cause behind global commodity price hikes
- Data mining for development
- Medical tourism: Asian tigers reign supreme
- Packages JV; eying trade liberalisation?
- CSF flows tame fiscal deficit monetization
- FDI and improvement-a far cry
- The future of Information Technology
- July-Aug Trade: A mixed affair
- ENI discovery: New Petroleum Policy yielding good results
- The upstream sector all set for another robust year
- Current account, BoP bolster up in August
- Dawood Fertilizers gives it up
- Global infant mortality: modest improvements
- PSDP disbursements pick pace
- Franchises: The way forward for local retailers
- Branchless banking soaring high
- POL - Slow but steady
- Attock Group posts mix results
- Thought Leadership Forum - Privatisation & sustainable development
- Web Index 2012: Dismal results for Pakistan
- Industrial output continues to stutter
- Remittances on the rise
- Not enough decent work: The dilemma of the youth
- Lessons from Karachi tragedy
- Garment factory catastrophe
- Used cars overshadowing auto sales
- Regional cooperation must hit North in South Asia
- PTCL builds on improved operating performance
- Google: Stepping up the game in Pakistan
- Migrants smuggling in Pakistan
- The ICH itch
- DGKC rides on higher prices
- Consumerism rife amid crises
- Regional integration: incredibly important for India
- Global food prices to remain up
- National Foods making its mark
- Youth joblessness not fading anytime soon
- Polio continues to cripple Pakistan
- Economic Outlook: Questionable optimism
- SBP: Lesson learnt and implemented
- Global Competitiveness: Pakistan slides further
- US drought lands cereals in choppy waters
- Netsol Technologies impresses
- Slowing world trade clouding air cargo prospects
- The concrete marathon
- Small banks - big profits
- E-Banking transactions
- KSE: Leading indicator to another rate cut
- Inflation: 32-month low, but can it hold?
- Of Simmering SIMs
- Can future rice price shock be avoided?
- International Clearing House Not So Clear
- Where is oil heading?
- Habib Metropolitan Bank: Walloping performance
- ICI Pakistan Limited
- PIA backpedals on weedy results
- Faysal Bank Limited
- Petroleum Policy 2012: A job well done
- Lotte - at a loss
- Askari Bank rides on low provisioning
- NIB: Looking sharp
- Exodus: Extortion extinguishing business
- Value addition: on a string
- Packages Limited 1HCY12
- Big banks: big profits
- FDI - A fillip for Indo-Pak ties?
- Suzuki in the driving seat
- July trade balance: Weaker rupee delivers blow
- Bank Alfalah posts decent performance
- Irked global confidence
- PSDP disbursement remains steady
- Global stocks: buy now, cry later?
- Yellow metal bracing on the hopes of renewed stimulus
- NBP: Pretty ordinary performance
- Engro: Out of oxygen?
- Al-Ghazi: Plowing ahead
- Luckys record year
- Smartphones driving mobile phones growth
- Tri-Pack looks fatigued
- PIB auction: Racing to lock in rates
- Telecom taxation saga
- PPL all set for an ambitious FY13
- NIT ends up jittery on its feet
- Meezan (investment) Bank
- Irrational exuberance
- HBL banks on investment income
- Rising imports haunt local auto manufacturing
- Stupendous, marvelous, OGDC
- Inventory and exchange losses dent PSO
- T-bill auction: Locking in the high rates
- Indus signs FY12 off on record profits
- PBS and the inflation number
- Social media engagement: taking cue from KESC
- Regulatory issues for oil and gas
- Inflationary expectations may limit the rate cut
- CSR requires being proactive!
- MCB driving smoothly
- Greece: When bank heads lose faith
- Everybody loves Ramazan
- Gold in a limbo
- Of letter, contempt and election
- Making use of US energy assistance
- Global aviation riddled by economic misfortune
- Investing in India: Devil lies in administrative hurdles
- Olympinomics - the economics of hosting the great game
- Twitter trends in Pakistan
- Single-digit CPI gives space for cut in SBP policy rate
- New agreement, same expectations
- Food security for Pakistan
- PTCL gears up for VSS 2
- Jitters to world trade
- Global Economy: Moving towards crisis management
- Weighing up Luckys acquisition of ICI
- Foreign exchange report card
- Cheap urea record off-take
- Gender disparities among developing nations
- Global illegal economy making big bucks
- London Olympics and Team of Pakistan
- Russian Presidents maiden visit
- LPG mafia versus the LPG Policy 2012
- Gold: a little more precious
- Net foreign investment flows in red
- FFC reaps pricing strategy fruits
- Of RMG exports
- 3G licences: Restarting the process
- Demutualisation: Another step closer
- Honda Atlas mired
- Dreary close to trade in FY12
- Government shopping spree
- Market for ransom
- Oil prices: A medley of rage, panic and uncertainty
- Digital footprints and financial inclusion
- Asias growing trade prowess
- Hefty trade deficit at end- FY12
- Red flags: Ratings nudge down
- Digital footprints and financial inclusion
- UBL strong and steady
- Hubco: strong despite circular debt
- Sugar prices expected to remain range-bound
- FDI adding to the melancholic FY12
- Engro Foods shines, but for investors not enough
- US economy on the edge
- Cellular subscriptions maintain growth
- LSM growth stuttering
- Acknowledging social media - about time!
- Sluggish global economy - concern for Asia
- FFBL: back to profits, concerns remain
- Eurozone woes: any solution in sight?
- FY12: Record auto sales
- No rate hike in the wind
- Intricacies of green fuel that airlines cannot ignore
- FY13: Hopes on trade front
- Remittances in the ascendant
- Continued slowdown in global IT spending
- Downbeat on sugar beet
- Power sector through the climate lens
- Fortune Global 500 and the changing global economy
- M2 Growth: Feeding consumption
- FY12 closes with glorious local dispatches
- The crackdown report card
- Wheat exports: Window of opportunity opens!
- Poverty eradication - as remote as it gets
- Cotton future murky
- Barclays: Bankers blamed; authorities exonerated?
- Shadow education overshadowing the economy
- NIT funds deliver good performance
- Barclays: Bankers blamed; authorities exonerated?
- Shadow education overshadowing the economy
- NIT funds deliver good performance
- PSDP: Disbursals fall short of FY12 allocations
- Real, rouble, rupee: Trouble looming for all
- Fiscal cliff - tough calling for US lawmakers
- Tax target missed again
- Bleak future for the BlackBerry maker!
- Water: Price to pay
- CPI culprit: budgetary borrowing
- Gas prices: one step forward, too many back
- NSS rates go up
- FBR: Eleventh hour collections rising
- Aiesha Steel Mills IPO
- Energy security at distant horizon is no ante
- CCP urea price enquiry
- Rice exports remain firm
- The drug story
- Spreads thin out
- Fertiliser sales continue the downward trend
- Woebegone P&G
- Telecom giant in trouble!?
- Pak-Indian trade: back to the future
- Tractor sales: fostering mechanisation
- CNG 1: Rationale 0
- SBP highlights the loopholes
- Mutual funds going strong
- Consumer goods: The most important reason for LSM growth
- BB sector keeps on growing
- The unbridled rampage of poverty
- Fiscal Year 2012 trade mired in dwindling export volumes
- Are we saving enough?
- Froyo mania spreading over town
- Disorderly devolution
- Foreign inflows: Whats keeping them away?
- A mango in the hand: tough times for exporters
- Balance of payments - searching for a ray of hope
- Loadshedding - round 2 - fight
- Equity financing in bad shape
- Greenfield FDI in despair
- Greek elections: buying time
- OPEC: Steady as she goes
- Punjab budget: high on development, low on taxation!
- Sindh budget: start of the election campaign
- Gold making headway
- T-bill demand weak and spotty
- Economic tales of South Asia
- The rice parable
- CCP questions Punjab embargo on new sugar mills
- A breather from falling food prices
- Unending turbulence in global aviation
- Cementing the positives
- Remittances standing tall
- Suzuki leads as car sales hike
- ICI acquisition - welcoming foreign player
- PTA and customer awareness
- Wobbly ride for oil prices
- 2011-12: a mixed affair for major crops
- Floating debt becoming indispensable
- China: the rate cut red flag
- Elmo blows the whistle at the Rafi Peer group
- White gold in the lurch
- Will the real experts please stand up!
- MPS: Hold your horses and the discount rate
- Budget: A goose egg for the upstream sector
- Textile sector in knots over budget
- Budget: No reprieve for telecom subscribers
- Injuries in the notorious floods 2011
- Textile industry: after the boom
- TPL Trakker IPO: Sweet in bitter times
- Public Private Partnerships momentous for growth
- A happy budget for the cement industry
- Development and the goodies galore
- Inflation: the struggle continues
- The misrepresentation of pharma-sector relief
- Gas infrastructure Cess: CNG & urea to get dearer
- Consumption based growth
- External Account: the weakest link
- Energy: More needs to be done!
- Currency market panic - a reality check
- Budget countdown - whats in store for fertiliser?
- The Grexit scenario
- The PSDP fixation
- Subsidies - an exercise in futility
- Wealth tax - a penal tax
- Pakistan-India trade: The ight spin
- Alternate energy for a quick yet clean fix
- Fertiliser sales continue to be lacklustre
- Market access and security: major obstacles to trade
- Points to watch in global LNG
- Tax base expansion still starts with Islamabad
- Tapi - still a long, long way to go
- Fiscal summary
- Tapi - still a long, long way to go
- The red dragon slows down
- Provincial economies: The Punjab story
- Facebook unfriended by investors!?
- Mango season coming up
- Trade concerns still persist
- Pak-Indian trade
- Crude oil - all eyes on Iran again!
- Cement upbeat about FY13
- Time for wireless BSPs to step up
- Pakistans popularity sinks further
- Its widening, its the current account deficit
- UFG - a crushing realty for the gas distribution companies
- Governance at PSEs
- Floods 2012 - an imminent reality?
- Low carbon and green growth - the new trend
- WWF cries out for the world
- TFCs for circular debt - haven worked; won work
- Facebook IPO: Enter the digital future
- FDI in dire straits
- Of government service and employability
- Maybe, it is not glittering but its still gold
- Of proposed salary increase
- ICH: technically sound, but less competitive!
- The UNs take on Pakistans economic despair
- Lyari Expressway: A case study in gender dimensions of displacement
- Fertiliser sector needs the gas most
- Budget 2012-13: No new taxes!
- Corporate confidence in oil and gas
- FDI in dire straits
- Mobile subscriptions keep growing
- Loadshedding - protests - round 2
- How vulnerable is emerging Asia to global economic debacle?
- An end to austerity?
- Uncertainties abound global crude price movement
- E-Payments: Pakistan needs the ecosystem
- Cement sector: Local sales hold the edge
- Violence against women
- Coming attractions: Budget 2013
- Rice braces for a southward flight
- Urea barter trade - tough on local players
- The saga of surplus sugar
- Pakistan amongst IPR violation chart toppers
- Horticulture needs a quality boost
- Wither 3G?
- LNG Import: Another opportunity petering out
- No end to eurozones stress?
- Budget Preparation: an exercise in futility!
- April CPI: Food & transport take the honours
- State Life delivers record bonus
- No rush in currency market
- PIA in the doldrums
- Netsol: bigger than the top line suggests
- OGDC gallops on high prices and production
- National Bank of Pakistan
- PBS data: shrinking exports
- Engro Corporation 1QCY12: jolted
- ICI: Gas outages take toll
- UBL: shining bright
- Hubco: great expectations from Narowal
- Lucky: stretching out arms as results dazzle
- PSMC: like hot cakes!
- PPL shows swiftness
- PTCL: The top line keeps on growing!
- Struggling times for Lotte Pakistan
- Engro: End of an era
- Large banks reap profits
- Packages: Slowing down
- Mid-sized banks going great guns
- Lo and behold! PSO beats expectations
- Mighty Indus rages on
- Profits decline for Tri-Pack
- Zong overtakes Warid for number four spot
- HSBC Pakistan: a sweet treat
- Unilever Pakistan
- Rising balance of payments concerns
- When the going gets tough, FFC gets going
- Pakistan Oilfields Limited
- Engro Foods shines
- DGKC shines - as expected
- National Refinery remains under duress
- Biomass: From Waste to Energising Pakistan
- Extended gas curtailment jolts FFBL
- Nestlé Pakistan Limited
- Meezan Bank prospering
- Engros loss could be Pakistans gain
- Neither education, nor power for all...
- Five reasons for oil price to ease
- PSDP: disbursements remain on track
- PTAs telecom review
- Mergers and Acquisitions worldwide leading the outward FDIs
- In the name of food security
- Mitts on: Republican contender emerges
- Dignosco: the next step to college counselling
- National Energy Conference
- NIT funds deliver good performance
- Saving energy or faces
- Dewan Cement: Whats with the market price?
- Selar.WE: Serving women entrepreneurs
- Global IT Report 2012
- Cricket, Dargah: What about trade diplomacy?
- Being an entrepreneur in Pakistan
- Cement: a promising outlook henceforth
- Corporate conscience
- Rice prices: Holding ground
- Prospects for WiMAX in Pakistan
- TEDxMargalla: Ideas to talk about
- T-bill auction
- CCPs regulatory breakthrough
- NPLs: Evil still lurks!
- Powerless Punjab: Energy crisis badly battering industry
- M2 report card: simply mind boggling
- Budget proposals over taxation regime in unison?
- Shale gas: revolution or evolution?
- CPI: food-driven month-on-month rise
- Is Bank of Punjab out of woods?
- MMA Airlines: new to the skies!
- Global Innovation Index 2011: not a huge compliment!
- Petroleum prices - what could have been done?
- US Presidential elections: Narrowing the field
- PBS trade data: concerns abound
- Wheat procurement drive: The yearly ritual
- Women as economic drivers
- The cutting edge
- Fertiliser sales - down the drain
- Flarian: a start-up to learn from
- Mobile Remittances: choosing the right business model
- Loadshedding - protests - Round 1
- Regional trade: Consumer gains galore
- Lets see who rules the World (Bank)
- Import reforms: Do first, think later?
- Global investment: uncertainties blocking a breakthrough
- Boardroom gender diversity - bring it on!
- T-bill: far from a runaway success
- Tapi or IP? Decide now
- Smartphones and the mobile broadband market
- The mirage of the first halfs fiscal deficit
- Oil shock enslaves airline industry
- The PPL case - depoliticising the energy sector
- No silver lining for the balance of payments
- Foreign investment falling apart
- BB segment maintains the growth momentum
- CCP shines against all odds
- How NOT to quit your job
- Tractor sales: plowing back lost ground
- Sugar blues
- US boarding the flight to recovery
- PIDE briefs on economic misgivings
- LNG: the new big and profitable venture
- ICI: Gas woes erode bottom line
- Telcos grow steadily
- Wheat season: Down the same old path
- Mighty five: make good money
- Indian cotton exports: More twists than a soap opera
- Chinas changing trade strides
- The plight of city children
- KESC & the issue of captive power
- AllWorld Pakistan 100: global visibility for local ingenuity
- Rice following bearish trend
- Rice following bearish trend
- The theatrical oil market
- Cement dispatches thriving on local sales
- Auto numbers: against all odds
- T-bill auction: seal a bargain
- Debunking the options
- On S&Ps radar
- Required - Financial literacy
- Greece at its most vulnerable
- Where now for gold?
- National Bank of Pakistan
- PTA: additional spectrum auction
- The saga of soaring cement prices
- KSE rally: the return of liquidity
- Bhoja Air in the skies
- Building the countrys great firewall
- Bank Alfalah on track
- PTI Energy Conference
- Pakistan aviation in pains while global aviation grows
- Controlled rise in inflation
- Nepra decision: The points missed
- Social transfers and financial inclusion
- Faysal Bank: hit the ground running
- SSGCs profitability dips
- 3G spectrum auction: stakes are high
- Chinoys Oscar: more than a golden statue
- Crime: rising with impunity
- Indo-Pak trade
- Januarys trade mirage
- A glimpse into the E&P sector
- Dragging on the DRAP
- Special Note
- HBL in clover
- All eyes on oil, Iran
- OICCI Investor Survey: A tale of governments apathy
- Investors expect no rate cut
- OGDC rides on improved prices
- National foods up, up and away
- PTCL: Top line grows, bottom line shrinks
- UBL at a fast clip
- Indus enjoying better margins
- MCB Bank riding on expanding asset base
- Good news for the documented tobacco industry
- Water, water everywhere; but no drop to drink!!
- Alarm bells ringing in the external account
- PSDP: the states quagmire
- Meezan Bank declares around Rs3.4bn profits for CY11
- 3G auction: tread with caution!
- DGKC on a roll
- Surgical Industry: opportunities and threats!?
- Terrorism weighs heavy on FDI
- Engro going strong
- Whats driving gold?
- LSM still positive, but just
- A birds eye view: Thar coal deal with China
- Tri-Pack soaring higher
- Allied Bank: Going great guns!
- US budget: a lesson in election bids
- Innovation is the key!
- Car sales: resilient despite tough conditions
- FBR: Cutting it close
- Valentines: love for some, profits for others
- Involving the academia in policy making
- FY12 cement sales helped by local dispatches
- New brands driving growth for Unilever
- T-Bill auction: IMF Factor
- Do more - loadshedding is here to stay!
- Pakistan State Oil
- Valentines: love for some, profits for others
- IMF prescriptions not relevant now?
- Hubco exceeds expectations
- Nestle steady despite eroding margins
- FBR: Cutting it close
- All lows for Pakistan
- Palm oil game changer
- Greece: time for a new beginning?
- Broadband round-up
- NIT: Steady through the rough times
- Toxic loans: cause of concern
- Mobile spectrum auction: avoid the controversy, please!
- Facebook under growing public scrutiny
- A round-up on mutual funds
- Demystifying the illegal economy in Pakistan
- Pak-India trade: more clarity sought
- Pakistan Oilfields Limited
- Inflation: rising but not soaring
- Attock Refinery reaps dividends
- Attock Petroleum Limited
- Light on advances - heavy on treasury
- NetSol nudges back to profitability
- Wanted: Economic freedom
- Price is right for FFC
- Lucky Cement: celebratory results
- Difficult times for National Refinery Limited
- A tough 2011 for LOTPTA
- Fertiliser round-up 2011
- Steel: Over capacity draining profit
- T-bill auction hints further rate cut
- FFBL rides on high margins
- Of Kinnow exports
- PPL lives up to the expectations
- NIB in the spotlight
- Hinopak Motors Limited- a large bounce back
- Production loss is profitability loss for HCAR
- Engro Foods cash in on growth
- Ensuring quality at pharmas
- Equity markets: Moves to improve price discovery
- World Future Energy Summit 2012
- SBP and financial inclusion
- Trade statistics: no ray of hope
- OTC derivatives gathering steam
- Hunt for sixth cellular operator
- Why SOPA and PIPA are not just US issues
- Recession looming
- Educated and unemployed
- Current account: difficult times ahead
- No FDI, no portfolio cash
- Oil bracing for a northward journey
- Oil shock: How vulnerable is Pakistan?
- CCP again at odds with cement manufacturers
- Better late than never
- Eurozones hypertension recipe: downgrade
- Agri Development: Bring in the private sector
- Milk sector needs infrastructure improvement
- Branchless banking: to the next level
- Cotton prices: In limbo!
- Rice: peaking supply, stiff competition
- Pakistan: a heavy-texting market
- Is another rate cut on the cards?
- Passengers and airlines to bid adieu
- Remittances in the running
- Booming car sales
- Thatta Cement befriends Sri Lanka
- Cement dispatches ride on local sales
- ICMAP: insights on shareholding patterns
- Extreme weather demands commodity hedge instruments
- USF offers a lesson on institution-building
- Consumer confidence surveys: keen eye on ground realities
- Let down the culture-guards, China
- NSS inflows in dribs and drabs
- Sanctions or the Strait of Hormuz: Oil market juggler
- Game changer China
- Telcos brace up for game-changing 2012
- Gas prioritisation takes backstage again!!
- Vegetable ghee and oil go missing
- Is fiscal house in order?
- Events that greatly influenced gold
- Fed feeds up rate expectations
- Cheap urea? No more!
- Inflation and politics go together
- Business confidence - down but stable
- Inflation: single again
- Auto sector: gasping for gas
- Global air travel on a fragile boulevard
- Fuming over CNG
- LSM shows resistance despite hurdles
- Hazares Lokpal: insufficient solution for a great cause?
- Electronic payments keep growing
- CNG emergency: Media missing the point
- Market on a shoestring
- Yet another year without reforms
- Cotton support price: Rhyme or reason?
- MFN: PVMA fears flood of Indian competitors
- Urea off-take: worse is yet to come
- The changing face of the global economy
- Will gold step up a gear?
- FDI on a long vacation
- Of deadweight loss and gift giving
- Ushering in mobile broadband services
- Karachi: city of fright?
- Crude oil: on the swings
- Kinnow exports: dynamics and concerns
- Indo-Pak trade: look beyond MFNs
- Indecisive auctions
- CNG ban - a practical approach?
- Trade mired in tumbling volumes
- PSDP: costly and ineffective!
- Cotton growers at the bottom of the heap
- SBPs FY11 economic roundup
- Banks: all eggs in the governments basket
- Leather industry: dealing with its own demons
- Current accounts far away from glory
- Another Telco in the market!?
- PSM: what to do, what not to do
- Sugar millers: carrying the pains of growers
- Cement performance tumbling in hard times
- Gold prices: volatile much?
- Poverty Politics!
- Tobacco support price: a sign of hope or a disappointment?
- Enjoy winters with dry fruits
- Remittances good but for how long?
- Palm oil: technical & fundamental tug of war
- WEF Financial Development Report
- CGT: Don ask, don tell?
- More than the year-end anomaly
- Twilight and Potter say much more about Hollywood
- Rupee depreciation and inflation on the cards
- Yuan under the spotlight - again!!
- Life insurance posting good results
- Cereal production to rise
- Cigarette ad faux pas: too many to blame
- Kinno exports: realm of challenges
- Pressure politics on gas, while electricity shortage looms
- Sugar prices fall as millers worry
- Rethinking aid strategy
- Inflations November surprise
- Basmati: Let market forces prevail
- Let the competitive juices flow!
- Corruption fades at a snails pace
- MPS ditches the T-bill participants
- HDI Rankings: a harsh reminder
- Cotton: Let market forces prevail
- Infrastructure Development Cess or just another tax?
- Climate risk - now Pakistans forte
- Rupee depreciation: not so fishy
- India welcomes retail giants...with much ado
- The highs and lows of global aviation
- The curious case of 3G license auction
- Shale gas: a bonanza or just a coal retrace
- Smuggling: Addressing the grass roots
- MPS - hawks taking back seats
- Raising the wheat support price
- Forced migration
- DGKC goes green in style
- Global oil: Price paradox
- The prioritization of natural gas
- KSE: Out for the count!
- IT-BPO in India: Bracing for a tough year ahead
- Balochistan: In the face of adversity
- Trade numbers: Hanging by a string!
- Stalemate at Capitol Hill
- PTAs faux pas
- NPLs: re-emergence of the spectre
- Current account: a breather or façade?
- Crippling the crippler
- Déjà vu: BoP crisis 2008
- Other commodities entangling gold
- FDI: All eggs in one basket
- Sad demise mourned well!?
- T-bill yields signal status quo
- CNG: not quite the poor mans fuel
- Auto sales: Wheels keep churning
- Occupy Wall Street! But how can?
- Shoppers on a mission
- TAPI demands realistic approach
- Economy takes the remittance breather
- World rattles as the eurozone quivers
- Set the priority right
- Global rice production - rising against the odds
- Juvenile accusations at a grown-up economy
- IPO-Pakistan shifts into high gear
- Big banks: healthy, wealthy and wise
- Buck up, SAARC!
- Sugar barons have the last laugh
- EU: The teetering alliance
- Palm Oil: going cheap!
- Watch out banks ratings!
- Cement: promising domestic outlook
- Rice exports stymied by falling prices
- Taming inflation; or a temporary façade?
- MFN status to India: opening hearts and trade
- Prosperity; or lack thereof
- Spot fixing - the wake-up call
- Bumbling start of Rabi season
- The day the Greeks vote yes or no
- Money injection eases PSO woes
- Behind gold prices
- PIA predictably loses again!!
- Change is in the air?
- Engros loss is FFCs gain
- Engro marches on despite hurdles
- Meezan playing it safe
- Who is feeding it?
- Ministries for hounds
- National Foods rides on brand strength
- OGDC shows its muscles
- NBP goes against the grain
- Seven Billion now!
- FFBL on a high
- Lotte keeps its margins intact, for now!
- Faysal and Alfalah on a roll
- Small cars steal the show
- MCB, UBL: Big banks rake in big bucks
- DGKC and Lucky riding high on sales growth
- PPL ticks all the right boxes
- Top line makes the day for Indus Motors
- Trade deficit widens
- Spike in fuel prices trims GSK profits
- PTC gaining pace
- ABL in clover
- Doing business - not getting any easier
- Finance cost trims Engro Foods profits
- Put a number on the poor!
- Dwindling balance of payments
- POL hits the bright spots
- PTCL suffers the Ufone drought
- Packages struggles as negative margins creep in!
- Energy Catalyser: Potential game changer
- HBL in full swing
- Attock Petroleum Limited
- Tri-Pack: So far, so good!
- Branchless banking: ripe for new entrants!
- Coal prices: Fettered demand to arrest gains
- Occupy Wall Street: a clear message
- Another day off - old wine, older bottle
- NIT outperforming benchmark
- Fruitful cooperation with Central Asia
- Bet on domestic demand as exports dwindle
- SECP tough on capital adequacy of brokerage houses
- Motorcycle industry booming
- Remittances: September causes shivers
- Small banks: Ripe for acquisitions
- Behind the car sales numbers
- Dealing with the energy mix
- Dealing with the energy mix
- Savings culture key to financial inclusion
- Fashion Industry heading in the right direction
- Worsening water woes
- NBP: Waking up to technology
- Tariff rationalisation seen in isolation
- Ominous signs of a rate cut
- The silver slide
- Jobs no more - think different
- It is not circular debt, stupid!!
- Fears of a global slowdown loom large
- Prices critical for rice exports
- Asia, Africa: engines of growth
- Cotton rates recede with floodwaters
- A new wave of cooperation
- Inflation in September: stifled, and how!
- When there is no will, there is no way
- US, China at loggerheads over renewable energy
- Petrol prices rise has rationale
- Low rates make NSS less attractive
- PIA- Handle with care
- Oil awaits the German move
- Amazon kindles fire in Tablet PC market
- FBS perceptions survey: Don ask them why!
- Urea demand fights high price
- Keeping the flood response issue alive
- Consistently inconsistent
- Tracking mid-sized banks
- Mobilink gears up with an online app store
- Livestock exports hamper value addition
- KSE: Stocks turn red over Pak-US standoff
- Indo-Pak trade and the non-tariff barriers
- Gold: a safe haven
- Rupee - sanity to prevail
- Cement comes back
- Alert! Emerging markets
- Grey trafficking: A hard nut to crack
- Towards better corporate governance
- T-bills auction
- Stage set for another 50bps cut?
- Whats behind the LPG saga?
- Those poor Americans
- Circular debt show on the trade deficit
- Pak-Indonesia PTA: A grip on palm oil
- Impacts of higher wheat support price
- Current account breather too vulnerable
- New programme won be on easy terms
- KCCI losing its relevance?
- Where is IP gas pipeline heading?
- Higher projections for global wheat production
- Mobile application development: Pakistani firms on a roll
- Running into Pakistan-fatigue
- Demographic dividend or tax
- Pakistans no (man)go areas
- SECPs initiatives: Benchmarking investor confidence
- Oil to stay range bound
- Dengue: more than a monsoonal threat
- Is auto industry on a fast gear?
- Losing on the cotton rally
- PRI boom continues, despite analysts pessimism
- Pakistan Oilfields: steady & firm
- Run-of-the-mill show for NetSol
- Rice price on thin ice
- Sliding yields signal further cut
- GCI highlights Pakistans incompetence
- Rice earnings to be in check
- PTCLs margins shrink
- 9/11: Ten years on!
- Hub Power Company
- Agrarian economy deluged, again!
- Distribution takes toll on DGKC
- Lack of expertise: damning consequences
- Nishat Mills Limited
- Lessons from the neighbourhood
- Kapco weathers the circular debt storm
- Sacrificing telco growth for fiscal appetite
- Circular debt erodes Nishat (s) Power
- Teaching Mandarin:
- No preparation for the seven lean years
- Top five banks on easy street
- Women on top mean business
- All that glitters is gold
- Fertiliser sales struggling to rebound
- Japanese rating downgrade
- Welcoming CPI rebasing
- For nations sake
- Heavy duty China
- LOTPTA is booming, despite narrower margins
- Realigning Pakistans trade ties
- ICI Pakistan: Does it have answers for tomorrow?
- Packages chokes again
- The four-wheeled dilemma
- INDU: Thinning margins, diminishing hopes
- Tax on cotton: Nothing doing!
- Tri-Pack riding high on consumer goods boom
- Food prices: winners and losers
- Is banking industry as sound as a bell?
- Telecom sector needs to shift gear!
- Where is trade heading?
- HBL: Sky is the limit
- Floods: No lessons learnt from mistakes
- Eurozone: losing faith
- NBP sees steady growth
- Of gangs, turf wars and extortion
- PSMC: Is it excellent all around?
- BoP: bumpy ride and a long way home
- Rejoice for OMCs at last
- LSM riding on consumerism
- Investment dearth continues
- Sugar bites
- Growers plight and cotton woes
- MFN for India? Hard bargain required
- Global wheat supply: good but not good enough
- The golden rally, again
- OGDC: still not a buy
- Engro: Finance costs curb profits
- Cars everywhere!
- Helping SMEs grow
- Falling yields in T-bills
- PMEX: The new investment frontier
- Remittances up - PRI???
- Global oil down; but seen range bound
- An infectious downgrade
- Circular debt - PSO - same story
- PPL shines yet again
- Unilevers organic growth
- BAFL strikes the right note
- Telcos in FY11: Not so run-of-the-mill
- Trade policy - an impasse
- KSE-100: Confidence matters
- Glimpse of bulls in rice
- Lawn is back
- Irsa Accord: A dam problem
- The APC epic
- Pugnacious potential of Pakistani dates
- The exponential rise of Nestle
- Engro Foods going green
- Flood of broken promises
- July inflation feasted on food
- Resilient flood survivors and humanitarian community
- Zakat mired in trust deficit
- Lucky thriving luck
- ABL so far, so good
- Meezan Bank 1H profits double
- It is good, it is FFC
- Welcoming TPL
- UBL going great guns
- MPS: expect nothing!
- Crutches for limping cotton?
- Treasury investors playing safe
- Water wars
- FFBL rides on DAP
- Flood survivors clutching at straws
- MCB bigger and bolder
- HCARs rocky ride
- Urea vs DAP: set the priorities right
- A silently ticking bomb
- Sugar prices: Ramazan and beyond
- Karachi: Living is cheap, survival isn
- Revenue collection: fudging or folly?
- Foreigners flee as KSE remains clueless
- The credit tale
- Powerless unit, powerful union
- Where are capital goods imports?
- Appreciating renminbi appreciation
- For the farmers benefit
- Export boom or price bonanza?
- Not so business-unfriendly yet
- Lessons from the surplus
- Faysal Bank post merger
- Cities: citadels of growth
- Debt - tough stuff for US
- The urea goldmine
- Telecom for all: not an elusive dream!
- Reasons why boss always right
- KSE-100: clueless, headless
- Better representation - key for fiscal prudence
- PVMA not slick enough for CCP
- Palm oil on a shallow rise
- Failure to plan is planning to fail
- Lessons for flood management
- External accounts in the balance
- EU concessions: the issue lingers on
- Auto industry slow but sure
- Flimsy sugar reserves might push prices higher
- Of gas outage and outrage
- Cotton prices plunge to half of peak, may go down further
- Cement looks forward to FY12
- Mortgage Refinance Company
- Seeking refuge in PIBs
- Bye-bye reforms?
- Investors pet - Gold
- Cross-border tea-rrorism
- Wheat reserves: exports infeasible, storage wanting
- Will rice resume a northward flight?
- Making Pakistan Textile City work
- Devolved not evolved
- PaCCS - the issues back
- Step on the gas!!!
- National Investment Trust
- Etisalat playing hard to get while GOP plays ball!
- OGDC Bonds: how not to approach investors 101
- Europe gets Greeced
- Saving to save the economy
- How FBR met the revenue target
- Want to be Engro Foods connoisseur?
- CPI inflation: A breather in sight
- The rationale in rationalising gas tariffs
- Stellar prices stall fertiliser demand
- Bills chugging along
- Pakistan & Indonesia: Prefer not to talk?
- Cotton: the vagaries of weather
- Branchless banking: Make hay while the sun shines
- The downside of political break-up
- Small growth in large scale manufacturing
- Country crashers
- The case of exporting mangoes
- Groupin and 47th Avenue
- Failed or prejudiced?
- Fiscal situation: strained but not drained
- Theres something about Engro
- Reaching out to the poor
- Islamabads motto: never let it go!
- Energize now!
- Fiscal mis-coordination
- US brand hegemony slipping
- World economies not in the clear yet
- No light at the end of the tunnel
- Dented sovereignty?
- Road to solvency
- Engro gets the gas but for how long?
- Pakistan Railways on the wrong track
- India and Chinas common enemy
- OGDC: sliding fortune - sliding income
- KSE-100: In want of a propellant
- Is the trend in external gap reversing?
- T-bill: easy sell or easy buy
- Time for a new economic order
- A wallet-friendly diet, anyone?
- Pakgen offers return, with caution
- Flimsy, fragile airline profitability
- Tourism: forlorn but valuable
- Woman vs economist, or European vs Mexican?
- About time for taxes
- Remittances bring smiles for families, financial managers
- Fuel shedding!
- Go mobile, get insured!
- Commercial vehicles industry in the lurch
- Strong economy begets strong defence
- KSE-100 under strange clouds
- Lessons from provincial budgets
- On the rocks, FBR!
- Opecs (in)decision casts gloom
- Mangoes ripening up for Japan
- The same telecom humdrum
- Where does Pakistan stand?
- Rice price on the ice
- Provinces and the devolved social services
- Gold, the reliable safe haven
- PVMA response: Pandoras box about to open?
- Mounting casualties, mushrooming costs
- Limping towards a healthy and educated Pakistan
- Taxation reforms found wanting
- Creating a Flintstonian society
- Skill development to broaden tax net
- An auto-friendly budget
- CPI inflation: same house, troublesome dreams
- The 2020 dream
- T-bill auction - a hard sell
- PBC crusading for reforms
- Oh! I see
- A forewarned, food-starved world
- Welcoming partial deregulation
- What equities can do, money can
- Higher taxes weighing on telecos
- PRI kidnappings: the price of rising remittances?
- PRI kidnappings: the price of rising remittances?
- Gas price rationalisation is the way to go
- Where is the new growth strategy?
- Cement: bracing up for FY12
- Of jobless growth and endless woes
- Banks under fire
- DAP prices going out of hand
- The nose diving foreign investment
- Greece and Pakistan: mirroring fiscal failure
- Healthy PIB appetite - sustainable?
- Branchless banking: still a long way to go
- Size does matter
- Motorcycle Imports: Square peg for a round hole
- Development woes
- Horticulture: bring structure in infrastructure
- Desperate times, desperate measures
- Whats in a name?
- IPO-Pakistan needs to shift gear
- PMEX back to the futures
- Transparency - the missing link
- Celebrating sixty years of hallucinations
- Kahn-less IMF
- MPS: Think beyond pricing
- The incessant PTCL-Etisalat saga
- T-bills back to square one
- OGDCL going global, again!
- Current account: improved but unsustainable
- Auto makers wish list
- Correction
- Midsized banks: not very far behind
- G2P payments and the stakeholder game
- Smart talks needed at WTO
- DAP subsidy on the cards?
- Steady telecom sector
- HCAR: Smooth for drivers, rough for assembler
- Where is the realism in power subsidy?
- Sugar procurement: for millers or for farmers?
- Business sentiment survey: steps in the right direction
- Big 5: too big to fail
- The remittance story
- Automakers feel Japan aftershocks
- G2P payments: We can do this!
- Global FDI: promising prospects
- Regulator, stakeholders hammer out changes
- Subsidies won end the debt spiral
- Less knowledge can be dangerous
- A strategic shift of standpoints
- Futures contracts: stakeholders unimpressed
- Cement: is the worse over yet?
- Fixed Line Telephony in need of a fix!
- Bulls waiting for trigger at KSE
- Oil price uncertainty mounts
- Southward journey for rice begins
- reasury papers in great demand
- Going branchless
- IT industry: setting the right image
- Food: priceless yet pricey
- When the house rent hump humps
- White gold losing its sheen
- PVMA: Too slick to catch!
- Are banks allergic to innovation?
- Provinces deliver, nation prospers
- Economy after Osama
- Meezan Bank Ltd
- NetSol keeps the margins intact
- ICI shedding colours
- All is well at PPL
- Pakistan Investment Bonds
- Circular debt takes the better of PSO
- NML: Smooth as linen
- PIA: No big surprises
- Concerns and hope ahead for ICI
- High prices save the day for OGDC
- Telecom giant sees profits fall
- UBL cashing on investments
- Engro rides on fertiliser strength
- PSMC: While the going is good
- MCB: banking on deposit growth
- National Bank of Pakistan
- Lotte buoys investor interest
- INDU: falling profits on a rocky road
- Tri-Packs Stellar Performance
- DAP boosts FFBL profits
- Bank Alfalah up and running
- Distribution costs bust DGKCs profitability
- Allied Bank Limited
- KSE: much too soon to confirm a breakout
- MDGs: long way off from Pakistan
- Unilever Pakistan
- Investors playing the waiting game
- Two to tango
- National Foods: devouring profitability
- Of grey traffic and illegal gateways
- FABL takes the bitter with the sweet
- Silver linings in silver
- Current account: On the bright side?
- Pakistan Oil Fields
- Packages returns to profitability
- The debt spiral needs to end
- Lucky springs up on local sales
- A bitter prescription in sour economy
- HBL NPLs testing the comfort zone
- Two holidays won fix it
- Nestle riding the consumerism waves
- Of government-induced market distortions
- Sharing for Growth
- Sweet comparison between bitter neighbours
- They won pay, no matter what
- IMFs good news with strings attached
- EIA sees oil even higher in 2012
- Is auto industry a lame duck?
- Violence: addressing the grassroots
- From 3G to 4G: a leap of faith
- National Investment Trust
- Remittances: the March factor
- Tax stalemate
- To devolve or not to devolve
- KSE: Mise en place for a whip up
- Developed economies: Preparing to tighten up?
- CPI: Taking a nap
- Changing trends in T-bill auction
- ADBs fiscal round-up
- All set for a ballooning import bill
- Cements March comeback
- Towards debt market development
- Its heating - its oil
- Auto industry: dynamics in control for now
- An eye for an eye?
- Count on, for better policy decisions
- Put the creative foot forward
- Gilgit Baltistan: Overstated power potential
- The big 5 round up
- Oil prices: the battle with political pressures
- Shopping list: Khushhali Bank
- Celebrate aid-dependency?
- Tax and the trust deficit
- Don gobble the dim sums too soon
- Is rupee depreciation on the cards?
- Faysal Bank Ltd
- The cotton fever is here to stay
- Cricket ahoy!/ Batt(l)ing nerves
- Channels cash on cricket highs
- EU concessions: Where are the lobbyists?
- PIA has silver linings in losses
- Ungainly wheat procurement
- Is gold on a winning streak?
- KSE: Looking for a direction
- DAP subsidy might be on the tap
- Chinas growing trade clout
- Industry Review 2010
- Guard Group: An aggressive entity in auto parts sector and facilitation
- No change in discount rate
- In the name of faith
- Longing for long term bills
- Pakistan and the twin crises
- No more a Next economy
- Summers to heat the circular debt
- Not so rosy growth in LSM
- SME financing: engine for inclusive growth
- Fishing for exports
- Current account: the glory might end
- Budding growth in branchless banking
- KSE bows down to FIPI outflows
- Another oil saga in the making
- PIBs back in the game
- Textile GST: Tax, but tax all
- Hafeez takes Pakistan on IMF track
- GST fears ripen for farmers
- Rice prices ebbing off
- Japan quake: the extent of aftershocks?
- Palm oil: Have the bulls really left?
- Dearer milk: paying the price of smuggling
- Tradable banking heads
- Tourism on the decline
- In stats we trust
- Pak-China FTA: exploit untapped potential
- As blossoms spring, so does lawn
- Bombed economy
- Inflation down with errors
- All eyes on sugar
- Investors turning over a new leaf
- Cement makers bank on exports
- Employed illiteracy
- We do not need no-education
- Double, double oil and trouble
- Farming tax
- From mortgage finance to gharonda
- The finmins daydreams
- PSMC in vain
- LOTPTA: venturing further
- Paradigm shift at KSE?
- Food prices: feared factor
- The caring bank
- Restructuring the savings industry
- PaCCS plays hard to get
- Market for sukuk goes ravenous
- National Bank of Pakistan
- Middle East crisis: beyond boundaries
- Who will lend to the SMEs?
- IMFs comfort for fiscal cushion
- Three year report card - where is the progress?
- Frozen brains - Freezing tariffs
- The petrol dilemma
- Sub se bara Rupiya
- Gold fad is back
- KSE: heading for a bearish leaning consolidation
- Circular debt menace
- Treasury auctions sounding good
- OGDC improves earnings: disappoints shareholders
- PTCL: Down but not out!
- Nutritious potential
- Oil trips over Tripoli
- Value-added in a fix
- A letter of discomfort
- Hubco takes the circular debt blow
- INDU in a stew
- Scarce water, shoddy management
- United Bank Limited
- PIB auctions on track
- Three key actions for four-legged growth
- ICC World Cup versus KSE-100
- HBL playing it safe
- NML: making the right moves
- Save remittances for the future
- DG Khan Cement
- ICI: growing with diversity
- Unilever: soaring on the back of volumes
- Engro grows stronger
- Meezan: From strength to strength
- Nestle Pakistan
- KSE confidence dips with FIPI
- Allied Bank Limited
- T-bill yields down but not for long
- MCB: CY10
- PIA strike action
- NetSol undergoing growth consolidation
- Circular debt continues to haunt PSO
- The white bulls aggressive stomp
- NCDs: Pakistans seldom-cited healthcare challenge
- Inflation: Think before you celebrate
- Davis economic dilemma
- National Investment Trust
- Needless wheat procurement
- Big Red: Comes clean on the yuan
- Gold in a state of confusion
- Dealing with Turkish safeguard measures
- KSE dilly-dallies
- APTTA set to begin on Valentines Day
- MQMs wanting economic agenda
- Sugar industry: fair production, unfair dynamics
- Food for thought
- Structural debt issues
- Whos next to pay for oil? Refineries
- EU concessions: better image please
- Petrol politics - episode III
- Davos: Shooting long range
- Post-flood picture is not so pretty
- Crowding out on the cards
- Engro: expanding the halal way
- You lucked out!
- Petrol politics - episode II
- Pakistan Oil Fields: Promising future
- No smooth curves for Honda
- Save the auto industry
- The intricate web of MPS and rate expectations
- Fauji Fertilizer Company
- Economic sovereignty at risk
- KESC has more cards to play
- Lotte PTA safe and sound
- Corporate heroes
- FFBL: many happy returns of the year
- Pakistan 25
- What a precedent to set!
- Pakistan Petroleum Limited
- Four decades from now
- KESC politics
- KSE: a top in the making
- Cotton chaos in the making?
- KESC has graver issues to deal with
- China can help being tactful
- Rice exports
- Silver linings in current account
- Wine and dine
- Stagflation looming
- Paying the price of ad hocism
- Wary investors weighing on FDIs
- Prioritising trade with Iran
- ISLs IPO on the horizon
- The mockery of poverty reduction
- Pakistan Frail-ways
- Time to look beyond Bhasha
- South Asian countries: analogous indeed
- No country for journalists
- Déjà vu
- T-bill investing in vogue
- The Vice of do more
- CPI: Ah! Government borrowing
- Freezing power tariffs to save power
- Vegetable diplomacy
- LSM sector struggles
- Strain on the dinner plate
- Winter chills in the auto industry
- Blindfolded on the long-term
- Ibrahim Fibre gearing up for the future
- Healthy competition for cooking oil?
- Petrol politics, bad economics
- KSE: preparing for a visit to the south
- KSE: preparing for a visit to the south
- A dozen citrus-reticulatas please
- Banking on infrastructure
- US: Remarkably employed
- Mobile banking on a roll
- Finding the balancing act
- Wheat exports: a decision well-timed
- Telecom: vying for consumer attention
- Cement industry up against the wall
- Why retailers are wary of taxes
- The politics of ignorance
- Fog in Lahore takes Islamabad hostage
- Sugar import - think rational
- Auto Import policy back to square one
- Pakistans economic resolution for 2011: take charge
- Golden star for KSEs 2010 performance
- Will Engros success entice others?
- Bestway finds a sweet spot
- In T-bills we trust
- A tough period awaits SECP Chairman
- Education: Filling in for the government
- Retail payment transactions muddle along
- Onion crisis: tearful, indeed
- Let the poll preparations begin
- Standing around the Stand-By Arrangement
- Private credit up, but headwinds loom
- Less gas, more profits
- China moves against aggressive inflation
- Maternal morbidity
- Management ruckus at KSE
- Marketers find a regional perspective
- Gold continues to chug along
- PIB auction gets off the ground
- High-five, Five Rivers!
- Hopelessly hopeless hope
- Prioritising gas usage
- Summit Bank: a step closer
- Philanthropic, however praiseworthy, deceit
- Automakers in peril
- Current Account: A breather but not yet a relief
- The wrath of the winters
- RGST: Plan B
- Mortal mortgages
- Weighing up Wens promises
- Change, or perhaps no change
- Sino-Pak relations: time for an economic marriage
- Telecom industry breaking into cold sweats
- Relaxation for users, headaches for the makers
- Moodys ratings: not really a mood-swinger
- Barometer blows!
- Relaxation for users, headaches for the makers
- Moodys ratings: not really a mood-swinger
- Barometer blows!
- Mansha eyes UBL again
- No respite from inflation
- KSE: Getting high on foreign buying
- RPPs - the inevitable has happened
- Agri credit
- Turnkey with Turkey
- Oil drama heats up
- Cement craving for more growth
- Poverty is getting richer in Pakistan
- Sindh Bank
- Excess wheat? Ship it out
- Rice off to the races
- KESCs last chance needs political support
- Whats the point when you miss the point?
- Whats the point when you miss the point?
- Public hospitals
- Is credit off-take jump sustainable?
- Adrenaline rush in competitive mobile operators
- The sensational census
- Conspiracy theories earning dividends
- T-bill buying spree continues
- Sizzle sizzle, palm oil
- Fiscal Summary
- Unappreciated generosity on appreciated oil prices
- Taming of the white bull
- High prices and floods lull fertilizer demand
- Curtain opening for sugarcane crushing
- Branchless banking in the wind
- SBP targets fiscal (mis)management
- Regulatory pistol aimed at microfinance banks
- Careful what you leak
- Brownie points shrinking for KSE
- Ice Scream
- Make way for the USD
- The changing face of FDIs
- Favour India, but favourably for Pakistan
- Gold in a state of flux
- The story of Pakistans trade
- Reforming opinion for RGST
- Eurozone: Oops! We did it again
- China tightening and the global recovery
- Potential telco drivers - mobile phones
- Honda sells more yet makes loss
- Turkish RPP: its old; its expensive
- Current a/c breather - make hay while it lasts
- Rice price hike may not drive exports
- No respite from inflation
- Dear milk, oh-so-dear!
- Chicken up in arms
- How to finance the floods damage?
- WorldCall gears up for competition
- G20 meeting: tricky decisions will take time
- Unrealistic numbers behind RGST opposition
- Car makers driving smooth
- More than just a sacrifice
- Inflation has eyes on the sky
- Tax tussles
- Gold standards?
- G20: Look out US, the developing train emerges
- Cotton prices: weighing the pros and cons
- Obamas sales pitch to Asia
- Why, oh why, sugar?
- A city of fright
- The curious case of the KSE index
- Is the cement industry picking up steam?
- Human development: neighbourly similarities
- LPG prices need rationalisation
- Ijara Sukuk on the horizon
- Pricey cotton, pricier clothing
- Vicious circle
- Lottery schemes for GST
- Whistle blowing, finally!
- Targeted subsidies: easier said than done
- Beware of the cheapening US money
- Improving auto competition
- It is not a petrol bomb - its just another revision
- Lotte aiming at Kolsons treats
- NetSol in a sweet spot
- NBP: profits up, but at a high cost
- Pakistan Oil Fields
- Cotton cotton, wheres the bottom?
- Unilever: soaring revenues, dwindling profits
- Fauji Fertilizer delivers dividend surprise
- The corruption high
- United Bank Limited
- Engro stands firm and strong
- HBL: Proceeding with caution
- DG Khan Cement
- INDU up and running
- Oil & Gas Development Company
- MCB Bank
- What will become of Amtex dividend?
- ICI: determined despite challenges
- Meezan Bank: striking an unusual balance
- Pak Suzuki: top line growth, but to what end?
- Vietnam and Pakistan: similar but different?
- Then and now
- Gas load shedding weighs on Packages
- Nestlés strong despite competition
- PSO takes the circular debt blow
- Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim
- Lucky Cement: smart moves, promising outlook
- Lessons from the Amtex saga
- EU trade concessions
- Way to go, China!
- Floods and the current account surplus
- CSF: Pay up America!
- Pakistan Petroleum Limited
- KESC needs more will than power
- Allied Bank
- Wheat: to support or not to support
- Much ado about KSEs leadership
- Make room for corporate debt instruments
- Debt write-off: No, thank you!
- DNA estimates shaping FoDP moot
- PIB auction not a runaway success
- Traces of gold in silver
- Floods bottling up auto demand
- Land reforms: consolidation not redistribution
- Tax: Drawing out prizes
- External account relying on remittance growth
- Changing tides in global economy
- Policies, but little policy action
- Inflation on a steep road
- Banks inching towards quality assets
- White gold in vogue
- Bears await their turn at KSE
- Transit trade: Negotiating complex paths
- An unwise termination
- 3-month bills: hot cakes or what
- Power reforms
- Sugar auctions: another futile exercise
- Is Telenor-Mobilink marriage on the cards?
- Engros TFC: betting on retailers
- Money! Money! Money!
- Flood tax
- Sticky path ahead for cement industry
- Food prices bash as currencies clash
- The slipping and sliding PKR
- Saving private sector
- Is interest rate hike the only answer?
- KSE: Denial could be pernicious in times of uncertainty
- POLs dividend delight
- Brace up, exporters!
- Rolling loans gather more loss
- Lube it or leave it
- Flocking to Russia
- Re-introducing GST
- Branchless banking making inroads
- Partnering South Asia
- Fertilizer stocks pile; shares may stumble
- Chinas footprints and the Russian gas deal
- Banking Spreads
- UFG losses; brokers gains
- Customs can be left un-automated
- Pakistan Cables
- Cotton: more gold than gold
- Govt long on bills and short on bonds
- Yuan: yielding, but won be bullied
- Revised Budget
- The gold sin
- Think ad spot buying is simple? Think again
- Food Security: Seed threat
- Development goals! Where?
- Basel III misses the point
- No respite in food prices
- Ballooning BoP
- Penniless universities: more dangerous than you think
- Asset managers beware
- EU concessions: marginal but welcome
- E-transactions ousting manual transactions
- Power politics: Its the economy, stupid!
- KSE led by headless bulls?
- DGKC banking on post-flood reconstruction
- Rupee: Stable ahead, but not for long
- Cooking up plans for raw sugar imports
- MTS bring it on
- Power reforms wounded by governments inefficiencies
- Outlook hazy for auto industry
- Don axe the tax
- Infrastructure bonds plans look good on paper
- NML bucks the gloom and doom!
- Eurozone promises, but with caveats
- August CPI delivers a deadly punch
- Oil on a slippery slope
- Efficiency is where the potential lies
- Banks outlook speaks volumes about economy
- Is the auto industry really guilty?
- Double-dip unlikely to trip Pakistan
- Rice export suffers setback
- GST: Reform train departs in 3 weeks
- Building bridges between academia and industry
- Documentation reform
- Food for thought and thought for food
- Temporary glitches will not hinder FMCG growth
- KSE equities: exhausted by uncertainties
- Charges on flood surcharge
- NetSol on the mend
- Floods: blessing in disguise for cement makers
- State of credit in 2010
- GDP doesn help migrating to Australia
- Kick the Butts out
- The drama that is MTS
- Dilly-dallying with sugar
- Fertilizers on the road to drought?
- Pay the price for power (inefficiencies)
- It is glittering and it is gold
- INDU rolls in with record-breaking year
- The heat is on wheat
- Whats with Ramazan and Pakistan?
- The case of debt write-off
- PTCL rings in net gain in FY10
- Whetting up VAT
- ICI surpasses market expectations
- Yen: an unappreciated appreciation
- PIA: lost as usual
- Lotte-PPTA upbeat after strong result
- Can floods paint a new political canvas?
- Adamjee in a balancing act
- Will profits come in packages for Tri-pack?
- NBP: profits up, but threats ahead
- Lifeless livestock
- Trick or treat in cotton market
- PSMC: profits up, but slippery slope ahead
- Bulleh Shah Paper Mill doing well for Packages
- NPLs growth recedes but floods ahead
- PIB auction: govt driving a hard bargain
- Micro lending for macro growth
- Macroeconomic implications of floods
- ANL cutting a deal
- Personal care saves the day for Unilever
- FFC knows bigger is better
- Current account stability: many a slip feared ahead
- Broadband emerging as the growth engine
- Pakistan: checked by deficits
- Nestle reports scrumptious profits
- CCP sets straight the not-so-white meat industry
- Cement: despite rains, a sunny outlook
- Floods fan the flames for sugar imports
- Chinese economy - the top is still out of reach
- ABL: Quietly making the right calls
- As flood wipes power off
- Meating up the halal meat market
- OGDC in murky waters - needs efficient captain
- Arrest the opportunity
- Warming up towards agflation
- CPI worries mount as food bites consumers
- Be ready to pay more for power
- No bolt-hole for government
- Grey traffic: cause of telecom blues
- Astute financial management saves Lucky
- Is there a reason for apathy?
- Floods 2010 wreak havoc on farming communities
- Economy hanging by a thread, IIL results reveal
- Steady streams for Hubco
- PSO rides its luck
- PPL: profits dropped, but not payouts and hope
- KSE: long on fear, short on greed
- Correction
- MCB profits up; confidence low
- Cotton doom and gloom
- The business of business journalists
- Wheat Export: window of opportunity
- If only there were more dams - damn it
- Cocoa causing a stir
- The sharaai union
- British PM in India: whos the master now?
- Meezan Bank: Unable to find that balance
- Flood management: Act Now!
- Not-so-great expectations from sugar imports
- Is complacency the new public sentiment?
- Is KSE-100 digging its own grave?
- UBL: Prudent management reaped fruits
- Gold at 3-month low, but not for long
- FFC has no demons - shines yet again
- Economics of the plane crash
- T-Bills auction: high and dry
- Balanced growth in HBL
- Engro: saved by fertiliser business
- The Sino-Afro (love) affair
- FFBL surprises - more surprises in the offing
- Wateen has more to offer
- Where government eats the private pie
- Telecom consolidation: not a piece of cake
- HCAR mired in red
- NETSOL on a roll
- Who is eying BP? Surely, not the OGDC
- Take the stress test
- Pakistan cosmetics market takes big strides
- PIB auction priced out of the market
- Margin Trading: the insiders scoop
- Juggling CVT and property valuations
- Trade deficit is high - FBS misleads
- Poverty estimates: considerable controversy
- Coca Cola Opens Happiness with Coke Studio
- The Clinton visit amid growing trust deficit
- Sugar-coated import contracts not doing much good
- Encouraging entrepreneurship at the grassroots
- No room for used car imports
- Mangla Woes
- Rice exports look promising
- The OGDC daydream is not on
- ATTA: Stand firm, come what may!
- Financing the golden way
- The unemployment woes
- Will Pak CDS slide further?
- Reko Diq: Balochistan must be on board
- Why bail the refineries?
- Ray of hope amidst rising cotton prices
- Cement industry on track
- Paving way for corporate governance
- Tax debate: Restart
- Auto sales bounce back
- Inflation as expected
- Remittance delight
- Flour supply not so flowery
- When Mark marks the market
- D8 PTA: Calculate your next move
- The golden pressure
- Change in policy rate expectations
- Time to oil your own palms
- Inviting smaller players won serve the auto industry
- ATTA: keeping an eye on negotiations
- Tight gas needs more incentives
- The $43 billion war-fare
- Maple struggles to cement its business
- Qubee has got to think out of the box
- Make way for commodity trade
- Pakistan-China ties not less important in 2010
- NIT: Don be duped by the payout
- Euros fall from grace
- KSE volumes are not dry for nothing
- Pakistan Remittance Initiative is now a headless chicken
- Time to act before Pakistan really fails
- Is it the right time for a tricky "issue"?
- Attracting FDIs: better governance is the key
- IT Boom - need of the hour
- The FY10 report card disappoints
- Lessons to be learnt from Punjab in doing business
- Take a leaf out of Mahbub ul Haqs book
- ATTA needs to be revisited
- What makes a degree so valuable?
- CFAP: Awards and Awardees
- Fertilizer sales ring an alarm bell
- Shaikhs visit fails to shake up equities
- G20: Lessons for Islamabad
- Wranglings in FY10
- As bears bond with KSE equities
- Telecom industry: many milestones ahead
- Fee-fi-fo-fum! Little borrowers here I come
- The Telco mergers game
- Leverage at your own risk
- Fee-fi-fo-fum! Little borrowers here I come
- Sail without bail and sale, if you can
- Farming key for export growth
- Yuan: New kid on the forex block
- Flydubai - fly cheap - why not?
- Is HCAR turning the corner?
- Will the risk taking investor, please stand up
- IP: Look to east when push comes to shove
- Weak fundamentals threaten LSM recovery
- To buy or not buy gold is a question of doubt
- May current a/c in surplus? Think again!
- KSE: walking a thin line
- White gold gaining attraction
- The crisis of leverage
- Capital gains tax blues
- African cement makers in a stew
- RBS sold for peanuts
- FDIs on a slippery slope
- BP: Burning from the spill
- Sugar: Millers to sell at ight price
- Punjab budgeting for the long term
- Rice export up in volume
- CGT: a bag of taxing uncertainties
- Cement makers back into profits
- Sindh budget: subsidizing the rich, burdening the poor
- Inflation: Down but not out of mind
- Let the bailouts begin
- 3G in the offing
- Old is Gold
- FIFA-32 vs KSE-100
- Bumps feared ahead for automakers
- Budget blame game begins
- Leverage set to return at KSE, or is it?
- Advertising: squeezing more out of the buck
- Banks profitability up, but so are the NPLs
- Formalizing the grey economy
- M-services to shave industry losses
- CGT: devil is in the detail
- Can a rate decrease be inflationary?
- The story of unpaid employees
- Fiscal austerity; what are the odds?
- No additional duty: Uncustomary
- The lowest and the smallest..........
- Targeted subsidy: where is the realism?
- All of Tarins men
- As goes OGDC, so goes the market
- Auto industry: gripped by anxiety
- Tea industry must be protected
- The exchange rate game
- VAT: Resolve on the horizon
- Lessons for the government from TIP report
- Growth nabbed by current expenditures
- Auto makers: negotiating from a weak position
- Pictorial warnings: S-mocking
- Political populism and VAT
- Freight subsidy: key for cement sector
- Of police and justice
- Headless regulators
- Agritech may have strong takers
- Bond market direction unclear after PIB auction
- Don worry about VAT, its the levy!
- Hunzas looming water disaster
- PTAs grey traffic crusade
- Corrective action needed at SECP
- Is taxing education criminal?
- Gold on the way back up
- KSE: Bloody Tuesday!
- A rental a month won fix it
- Pakistan has the footballs - but few takers
- Weak growth in lending questions sustainability
- Talk it out and get moving!
- Is Advertising Out Of The Blues?
- Fertilizer firms need not be pampered
- Markets are fickle, and so is investors memory
- Poor infrastructure haunts Pakistan
- What keeps the rate cut at bay?
- Economics of facebook ban in Pakistan
- Mango: Fruit Ambassador needs a little extra care
- GDP: one step forward, two steps back
- Arab Light is what counts, mate!
- Exciting new trends in m-banking
- Current a/c gap down; apprehensions remain
- Regulator may lose its might
- Better storage for crops on the cards
- World Economy: Dangerously interconnected
- Waste is the fate for cement makers
- Textile sector: Round 3, Fight!
- Do we really need a five-year plan?
- Trick or treat at KSE?
- Keeping a tab on micro loans
- Recovery underway, but don get too excited
- Rice export saved by volumetric growth
- E-customs clearing set to become history
- April inflation inflated by anomalies
- US optimism aids oil volatility
- A comfortable drive for auto sector
- EU bailout perks up global economy
- Trade gap narrows, but recovery pattern-less
- Special Economic Zones, Great!
- NY bomb might explode in Pakistan
- VAT: mistrust in the air
- Will PSO go for backward integration?
- KSE equities in murky waters?
- Telecom industry hinges on broadband
- Wheat gold turning bronze
- Cotton economy stuck in a mire
- Global expansion imperils cement exporters
- Did any anyone say more fertilizer plants? Why!
- Sell VAT to the stakeholders
- Consolidation needed for survival
- Education must on things-to-do list
- CCP: born again, but toothless
- Whos to blame for poor man woes?
- Gold getting shinier on its northwards journey
- Auto industry at crossroads
- Whos behind cotton mess?
- NetSol registers a resounding victory
- Less gas for fertilizer, more pain for the farmer
- FFC margins thin - might trim further ahead
- NBP in need of gaining efficiencies
- Is KSE stuck in a lull?
- PTCL builds its way out of crisis
- Wateens IPO: glittering but not gold
- NIT gain fattens Faysal Bank bottom line
- Even more employees fail to arrest PIA losses
- Inflation down, but no rate cut in March
- Are remittances really up?
- Auto sector to rebound in 2010
- UBL relies on cost efficiencies
- PPL down but not out
- Structural changes lead to spike in remittances
- Suzuki bites the dust
- ABL banks on low cost of funds
- Nishat Mill goes up the hill
- AICL profit dips on slow economy
- Product diversity keeps Unilever afloat
- What does the energy summit offer?
- Time to quit begging for aid, lets find investors!
- Lotte Pakistan: riding the high margins
- Cement earnings down on lower prices
- PSO finds efficient ways to deal with circular debt
- Cement earnings down on lower prices
- NPLs impeding solid profits for HBL
- MCB manages to stay afloat
- POL reaping fruits from Manzalai
- Great times for cement making
- Indus Motors solidly profitable
- A numerical portrait of Pakistan
- Energy Bureaucracy a must have!
- LSM recovery hostage to energy crisis
- Energy crisis: a case for merging ministries
- Packages reaping fruits of expansion
- Wateen Telecom: a treat for value investors
- FFBL rides on higher margins
- Lessons from Germany in Human Capital
- IMFs concerns on VAT seem sufficiently plausible
- NSS: nearly on target, but at what cost
- Innovate to survive in a war economy
- Missing government borrowing target is not a good omen
- The threatening barrel
- Freight subsidy: a step in the right direction
- VAT: reform, infrastructure and political will
- Debt market calls for restructuring
- Electricity crisis demands solutions not rhetoric
- Bring back competition to the economy
- Overhaul needed to limit TFCs defaults
- Auto sales up, growth still intact
- Is Norse mythology working for Azgard Nine?
- CPI points to second round of inflation
- Sugar power, go get it
- The battle for tax revenue is on!
- Get the terminals in and get them soon
- Maple Leafs timely injection
- What banks should but can do?
- Book your steel nerves now
- Delayed sugar imports pinching consumers
- The horrors of high oil price
- Tea importers seek governments help
- The dearth of brand ambassadors
- Power sector needs massive changes
- The woes of private sector borrowers
- Trust is the key to VATs success
- Is KSE overheating?
- Smoother ride ahead for Silk Bank
- VAT: issues in tax law design
- EFS rate hike can threaten exports
- Political rivalry, or PTCLs sale actually flawed?
- Economic cooperation with Turkey
- Wheat economy in snags
- Attock Cements move points to industry consolidation
- Exploring economic ties with Russia
- Economy caught in fiscal quagmire
- PSMA crying foul over sugar imports
- AICL: unhealthy profits mark the year
- Seeking IMFs waiver is not a sensible option
- Southern manufacturer demand level-playing field
- Economic Growth: Lessons from Brazil
- Fiscal constraints tighten money managers hand - No joy for private sector
- Strategic Dialogue: A one way street
- Auto sector woes need attention
- Commercial banks - 2009 ended on a good note
- Need to overhaul agriculture lending mechanism
- Early market closure is not the way out
- Nuclear Power: under consideration
- Need foreign investment to strengthen reserves
- Save the water for a rainy day
- Strategic dialogue: play it safe, avoid extreme risks
- Interpretation of the Bara Kahu nightmare
- Cement: north bleak, south still shining
- Adding value to tax revenue?
- Imports down: a good omen?
- Cellular companies now banking on babies
- The early summers call for immediate attention
- An independent Competition Commission vital to countrys image
- The yellow metal searches for a direction
- Build water dams or be damned
- Mobile operators in a pickle
- Yarn fiasco needs mediation not media
- Its increasingly between Hafiz Pasha and Hafeez Sheikh
- PIA needs a paradigm shift
- Clarity required in fuel price mechanism
- Uneasy times for Bank Alfalah
- Profits up: PTC not using smoke and mirrors
- Captivated by designer summer lawns
- KSEs trend points to a hollow rising
- MCB-Arif funds merger to create positive synergies
- Time ripe to build up a supply of the sweet stuff
- Are remittances really up?
- Auto sector to rebound in 2010
- Reko Diq: too big to fail
- Agritech: a defensive play for investors
- Textile ministry needs to find a mid-way
- APL seeks to add more through Admore
- Why bond traders are resisting the screen?
- Let there be LED light
- RBS has a new suitor!
- Investors want security, energy and political stability
- Meat heat grows, but none to blame for
- Pashas prospects
- The lure and perils of KSE equities
- Shell is out of its shell
- Cash-starved government gets help from NBP
- Oil needs stronger reasons to find a new range
- Dearer milk: paying the price of poor regulation
- Finance too serious a business to be left to the bankers
- Unilever profit rises
- Earthquake Insurance: Building code adherence
- When development gets the axe
- Is m-banking bankable for agents?
- Resolving circular debt: Tarins difficult, unusual feat
- Fishy obscurities in ransparent fuel price mechanism
- UBL stays afloat
- Will PSMCs sales make a U-turn?
- Reviving pulse in the IPO market
- China is the answer for Pakistans growth
- Livestock sector needs a life-saving dose
- MCB should advance more advances
- Deficit as expected
- Sharing it the Hubcos way
- Power sector TFCs misleading banking performance
- OGDC tastes Qadirpur at the earliest
- Falling ADRs, costly operations clip banking gains
- Country needs a Deputy PM for economic affairs
- Market players see CGT in a good light
- Indus Motors drives it safe and smooth
- Alluring Amtex IPO
- All eyes on the credit pie
- Which way will Au turn
- Economics driving Indias foreign policy?
- HBL needs to gear up advances
- Joint strategy for water, wheat and sugar
- Tax me if you can
- Whats behind disliking for DGKC
- ICI shrugs off the demons and moves on
- Privatization: proceed with caution
- Black (oil) is green for PSO
- Don unpack PKGS from portfolio yet
- Energy mess: the real challenge for govt
- The state of stateless inflows
- NMLs profits plunge by 11 percent
- Impact of political turmoil on Pakistans outlook
- Three-year budget is not the right answer
- Rising rice exports may hurt wheat cultivation
- KSE range bound as low caps rule the roost
- LNG bidding leaves a sour taste
- Finding the Russian trade connection
- Hello, can we talk and keep mum too?
- Car sales high and so are the concerns
- Tri Pack Films saved by expansion
- Inflation up but may cool a bit ahead
- POL to march on strong fundamentals
- Cotton imports are inevitable
- Banking amendments good, but still a long way to go
- Lubes paints it green for NRL
- Nestle Pakistan: buoying on higher sales
- CNG buses - not again
- Pakistani students at crossroads
- Meezan needs impetus in advances
- Qadirpur issues are far from over
- Farming growth dicey after wheat crop cut
- Business is good for NetSol Technologies
- Debt management must also respect demands of monetary policy
- RPPs: The cat is out of the bag - III*
- New products, marketing efforts reap benefits for PTCL
- Which way will Au turn
- Raise domestic savings, expand tax base
- RPPs: The cat is out of the bag - II*
- Pak-EU FTA needs a lot of homework
- RPPs: The cat is out of the bag
- Lending might be up, but quality is still too poor
- A DEEP failure
- Lotte PPTA finds a magic touch in reliable hands
- UAE still a good bet for Pakistani cement exporters
- Returns haven returned to KSE in 2010
- INDUSTRY REVIEW 2009
- Is Shaukat Tarin quitting government job?
- CDS spike points to something fishy
- FFC shines - yet again
- The sight of RBS is good for Faysals sore eyes
- FoDP show not well managed in Dubai
- LNG Mashal Project needs a boost
- What is behind the rising spreads on currency market?
- FFBL earnings beat all odds
- The costs and curse of child labour
- PPL profits dwindle but hope ahead
- Lucky moves forward despite low prices
- LSM growth: though small, it is precious
- KSE retailers being duped yet again
- Lost in foggy forecasts about economy
- Engro causes some surprise as imported sales soar
- Domestic savings: Will new bonds deliver?
- ECPL bottom line in red but good days ahead
- What can be a befitting response to IPL snub? PPL!
- Forecasting C/A future dicey business
- Why import sugar now?
- Whats behind Lotte price shoot?
- ADB delivers a death blow to RPPs
- Reko Diq: gold for peanuts
- Another good move by Lucky Cement
- BankIslami - Emirates Global deal will bode well for industry
- BankIslami - Emirates Global deal will bode well for industry
- Will hot gold cool again?
- Arcane laws hindering foreign investment
- What should be deemed unwise in the case of deemed duty?
- Upbeat KSE higher as new year opens
- Refineries & OMCs tell a tale of inefficiencies
- The rating of rating agencies?
- Auto import at industrys peril
- The story of twin circular debts
- Will CCP survive without Khalid Mirza?
- Dollar in trouble
- Trade gap: not everything means like it sounds
- Auto sales up but theres a gloomy picture of six months ahead
- Underground Coal Gasification is the way to go
- Is the inflationary dragon playing hide and seek?
- LPG saga: where are the margins?
- Whats behind the rupee fall?
- Fatima Fertilizer needs to answer more questions
- NSB to help expand bond market
- Capital gain tax looms large
- Cotton crisis: textile makers should think of Plan-B
- PTCLs privatization dilemma leaves behind no beneficiary
- Pak-Jordan FTA: the sooner the better
- Economy in limbo over US visa row
- Sugar importers need to tap Brazilian market
- Pakistans trigger-happy population keeps growing
- New Year and new power pledges
- Messages from Dubais Burj Khalifa
- Are fluorescent bulbs worth the risk?
- Foreign inflows: finding hope amid despair
- Cement: rising coal costs dampen margins further
- Controversial KLB funds channelled rightly
- What lies ahead in 2010? A bear market
- Ogra notifications: a violation of agreements?
- PSMC expecting much from Suzuki Swift
- Pakistan: still under a bygone sun
- CNG strike will strike the blow
- Cement subsidy: needy sure, but likelihood little
- Vandals deal new blow to economy with market arson
- NPL infection ratio soars but betterment hopes intact
- Fertilizer sales intact, but wary of global price trend
- Deciphering the nod from IMF
- Lack of infrastructure huge impediment
- Local gold investors cushioned by currency weakness
- Whos eating up all the pie?
- Cotton-less growth in LSM
- ATTA: Pakistan must start from a position of strength
- Not a bed-time story for power consumers
- The decline in NPLs growth may continue
- Don beat the wheat, please
- Economy set for a breather on foreign inflows due this week
- Don dump the anti-dumping duty please
- Telecom operators need low cost business model
- Hidden vices in current account decline
- KSE up but too shy to cross the floor
- Medicare to get more expensive for unhealthy Pakistan
- Life after NROs death: no pain, no gain
- Need to channel FDI in infrastructural sector
- OGDCL stuck in the wrong kind of limelight
- Yet another attractive deal by Mansha Group
- Rice exports likely to increase
- Islamic microfinance showing signs of germination
- Making SOEs viable prior to sale: easier said than done
- Pakistan-Malaysia currency swap - a good move forward
- Sugar: better regulation and timely import needed
- What is KESCs New Year gift to its consumers?
- NFC Award: Miles to go before we sleep
- M-banking set to gather pace
- Much still between KSEs ebbs and flows
- Worst seems over for the autos
- Solar energy: make way for the next generation energy source
- Inflation back in double digits but without alarm bells
- High time for higher anti-dumping duty on PSF
- Its not all over for Maple- not just yet
- Tobacco support price: Puff! puff away
- Hope, not credit, needed to lift the economy
- All that glitters isn gold indeed
- Climate crisis may be distant but it demands urgent steps
- UBL might wither from Dubai debt crisis
- Pakistans exports after Dubai
- Rupee weak but likely to rebound in a week or two
- 2015 wheat production target: how to realize your dreams
- The benefit of new lamps
- ADBs ongoing audit of RPPs
- Banking spreads seen slightly lower ahead
- Intense game of trumps on KSE
- Textile alert! Book your cotton now
- Silver lining ahead for big cement players
- Think hard because palm moves in tandem with crude
- Doing more may mean doing less for economy
- Economy pins hopes of recovery on foreign fund inflows
- Govt needs to join SBP in boosting renewable energy
- After Dubai, Pak economy may have to take a short vacation
- Fertilizer sales down as sowing gets delayed
- Supremacy of sugar millers intact
- Wither equities! The climate ain sunny just as yet
- Use sugar beet to beat sugar shortages
- Steel industry: a holistic approach to policy framework needed
- Is current gold rally only an obsession?
- Balochistan package: just a beginning indeed
- Telecom industry needs infrastructural investment
- Market, not IMF, dictated SBPs MPS?
- Lawai and company on a shopping spree for small banks
- Circular debt becoming more menacing
- NIT-GBF: new avenue for fiscal financing
- Take the foot off the gas please
- Finding a workable m-banking model
- Sugar imports to set perfect stage for millers
- Bulls eyeing 10,000 but too weak to climb rapidly
- Democracy at odds with economy?
- DAP scam: data strengthens CCP position
- C/A deficit down, but better watch out crude
- Teledensity nearly flat, but long-term growth ahead
- Need to attract FDI in energy and industrial sectors
- Let the wind power be harnessed
- Govt papers in high demand as NSS inflows slide
- Promote domestic savings
- Another urea plant: To be or not to be?
- Increasing auto production level is no solution
- Shedding crocodile tears?
- At the mercy of crude
- NCEL needs to add more to commodity trade list
- Markets wisdom
- Whats in store for DGKC in Sri Lanka?
- Solid waste management can add value
- Honda Car earnings drop while peers gain traction
- The workings of a possible reverse recovery
- GB election should bode well for tourism industry
- Whats next as inflation bottoms out?
- EIAs forecast signals tougher times ahead
- Sugar was cheaper in October
- Rising credit revives hopes, but economy still seen struggling
- Further indigenization of auto industry is no way out
- Halal food industry offers great potential
- What KSE bulls can and can do
- Afghan Transit Trade Agreement needs a major revamp
- Food vs fuel: the battle for life
- Where does the future of gold lie?
- BATS: opening the door for credit market development
- Maize: looking for more attention
- A stable rupee ahead
- Pakistan-Turkey FTA bodes well for the trade balance
- Cement sector needs alternate fuels
- All-round cost-cutting can revive PIA
- With PSF prices seen rising textile makers should act pronto
- Entertain to sustain, or perhaps not?
- Mounting toxic assets amid falling deposits erode NBP profits
- PPL profits dwindle on lower wellhead prices
- Auto sector driving on a smooth road
- PTCL must find vigour to clip drop in earnings
- Lucky Cement: strategic shifts to sustain profits
- Need for more agri policy framework
- Pakistans economy in catch-22 situation
- OGDC earnings fall on lower revenues, other incomes
- Learning lessons from the case of Kinnow
- Engro hit hard by imports low urea sales
- DGKCs profits up, but growth dicey
- Hubcos profits up 57 percent as margins improve
- Falling deposits, bad loans major concern for UBLs board
- Textile under threat as cotton turns to gold
- ICI profits rise on PSF prices
- Cautious lending drives HBL profits higher
- FFC earnings up and seen rising further
- BAFLs earnings checked by low ADR
- NMLs margins lopped rising production costs
- MCB earnings flat as advances stay put
- PSO earnings up but receivables still mounting
- POL profits slide but output to drive recovery ahead
- Economic stabilisation: distant dream or near term reality?
- Inventory mismanagement lops ATRLs gross margins
- Caution: bumpy road ahead for auto makers
- Money supply dries up but better days seen ahead
- FFBL meets expectations but caution ahead
- No longer an attractive investor destination?
- Valuation boost from FSV relaxation already priced in
- Attock Petroleum to ride on sound fundamentals
- m-banking: growth opportunities are there
- Pricing bilateral trade in yuan may bode well for countrys economy
- NRL profits up as inventory gains soar
- Importance of transparency: tractor scheme & BISP
- Can KSE successfully cross 10,000?
- FDI inflows need policy impetus
- Half full or half empty
- Growth in toxic loans slowing down
- PSOs profits set to ride global oil price spike
- Economy stabilising but recovery still afar
- Urea imports to fatten TCPs pockets?
- Tea culture under cost pressure
- Sugar and wheat face grim prospects
- EIAs oil forecast signals stability ahead
- The curious case of rising remittances
- Inflation down but watch out for the risks
- Premium consumers drive auto sales higher
- Small dams open doors for a green revolution
- Tug of war at KSE as perceptions collide
- Nothing to cheer about the increase in money supply
- The future of data service business in Pakistan
- Relaxing FSV will boost banking valuations
- Fuel import bill to go up as demand rises
- Golden bugs swarm as retailers join the rally
- Fatal blow: fiscal slippage can be pernicious
- Ailing dollar calls for plans to change reserves structure
- HDI up, but going nowhere
- Wheat shortage likely despite bumper crop
- Banking likely to fall further as lending dries up
- Fisheries: need to focus on improvement to foster exports
- Likely delay in the RPPs - another promise hard to keep
- BATS are good, but need to lure more listings
- Dairy sub-sector: changes, challenges and opportunities
- Economy back on track, really?
- ATRL disappointed but the worse may be over
- Infrastructure development: Public-Private Partnership can help
- POL surprises with high payout - future seems bright
- Cost efficiency, market diversification key for cement makers
- LSM numbers turn positive, but things aren sanguine yet
- MCB-RBS deal: whats really behind the delay?
- SSGC hit by UFG losses and financial charges
- INDUs profits down on economic slowdown but recovery seen ahead
- Policy rate unchanged: SBP pauses to rethink options
- PTCL profits up; but must innovate for growth
- SNGPL profits down, while horizon still cloudy
- Gold likely to rally further north
- Slowndown in economy? Bring it on
- Little hope for economy as private sector credit decline continues
- Whos to blame for bad rankings?
- OGDC no longer a high dividend yielding stock on bourse
- EFU profits slide as slowdown in economy takes its toll
- A jolt from Japan
- Banks lack focus on commercial banking
- Khalid Mirza removed, restored at CCP
- M-banking: can Africas model be replicated?
- Is the market being unnecessarily enthusiastic?
- Taxing flick business might screen entertainers out
- Foreign outflows crowd out private investment
- Is the market being unnecessarily enthusiastic?
- Foreign outflows crowd out private investment
- Sugar crisis: perceptions and realities
- Have prices really gone up in Ramazan?
- Say no to piracy
- Sugar crisis: perceptions and realities
- Have prices really gone up in Ramazan?
- Say no to piracy
- Fertiliser sales edge up, but caution ahead
- 20 development projects dropped: not a good development
- Documentation: why is it so important?
- Fertiliser sales edge up, but caution ahead
- 20 development projects dropped: not a good development
- Documentation: why is it so important?
- Falling cement numbers give birth to some serious concerns
- Bulls back in charge
- Rains and the power situation
- Falling cement numbers give birth to some serious concerns
- Bulls back in charge
- Rains and the power situation
- Saving the agriculture, drip by drip
- NBPs profits slide but performance catching up
- Energy crisis: the solution is the problem
- NBPs profits slide but performance catching up
- Energy crisis: the solution is the problem
- Saving the agriculture, drip by drip
- NFC 2009: a potential light at the end of a very dark tunnel
- BAFLs earnings checked by sliding deposits
- Unilevers dividend payout good but sounds alerts
- BAFLs earnings checked by sliding deposits
- Another feather in Manshas cap?
- Teledensity Surge
- ICI successfully weathers economy slowdown
- Nishat Powers IPO appropriately timed
- Declining premiums main concern for AICL
- Is circular debt TFC costlier than usual?
- Power sector needs to shift its mix towards Hydel generation
- BoP position: nothing to cheer about
- NML profits down by 78 percent
- Foreign inflows in last week a good omen
- PPL earnings boosted by wellhead gas prices
- Ramazan relief package: an inadequate populist measure
- PSMC profits dry up owing to slowdown in economy
- HBL needs diversification
- Strategic sugar reserves: good intention, bad move
- Mounting toxic loans
- Government has nothing in justification of ex-mill sugar price
- PIA: alarming administrative, distribution expenses
- NRL: lube business leads the way
- Where has the money gone?
- Meezan needs advances impetus
- WiMax makes new performance levels
- Circular debt posing a major threat to economy
- SMEs need fuel injection as a way to improve their performance
- KSE seen firming up as investors dispel any fears about fundamentals
- Despite outlook upgrade, theres no room for complacency
- PKGS earnings jump sharply in first half current year 2009
- Media a watchdog in any true sense?
- Government will have to take the blame for sugar crisis
- Its time for Suzuki to try a change of tactic
- HBL, PPL inclusion in MSCI bodes well for markets future
- OGDCL profits up 25%, but payout low due to circular debt
- The most dangerous deficit
- Textile woes: solution to problem is in consolidation of sector
- PSOs profits down but future still bright
- Hubco cashed in on the crisis despite rising fuel costs
- ETF: opening the doors for exciting opportunities
- MCB-RBS: What this deal really means for some in the industry?
- No need to get excited over falling trade gap
- KSE-100 index: the long view and the short
- Does 19-month low CPI warrant a big rate cut?
- MCB: non-markup revenues need renewed focus
- Alternative engergy: it must not be a waste of time and energy
- Deciphering the nod from IMF
- A triumphant glitter in golds golden glow
- Dont buy fruit really?
- Investment policy lacks saving grace
- Will RPPs make any sense in the absence of circular debt?
- What if oil rallies more: a double whammy for Pakistan?
- Luckys payout has come as pleasant surprise
- Deemed duty was not deemed a success
- See you later, sugar
- Citi-BIPL talks augur well for Islamic consumer banking
- Fertiliser firms making fertile gains
- PSDP cut to affect cement sales badly
- Pakistan must attract more Chinese investment
- RPPs: shipping, storage issues key impediments
- Cellular industry: value addition is a must
- FFC in good shape
- Prices ahead of Ramazan
- Shumailas case leads to highlight credit card woes
- A lost opportunity, indeed
- IMF behind rupees slide?
- E-10 take-off! Just not yet
- Battered by NPLs: UBLs first half profits down 23 percent
- HCAR on downhill drive
- Engros profits fall confirm shaky ride ahead
- Gas discos in limbo
- Trade policy fiscal year 2010 - a dry romance
- Add-on over deemed duty quite unseemly
- Banking blues
- Complacency could be dangerous
- Packages - Striking the right balance
- KESCs privatisation: Patience is virtue
- EPCL down but not out
- FFC shines - yet again
- Inflation down, but no rate cut in March
- NSS: nearly on target, but at what cost
- IMFs concerns on VAT seem sufficiently plausible
- IMFs concerns on VAT seem sufficiently plausible
- NSS: nearly on target, but at what cost
- Innovate to survive in a war economy
- Innovate to survive in a war economy
- High provisioning seems to be running out of favour, as HBLs management like MCBs, surprised the market by a 40 percent year-on-year decline in provisioning against toxic assets.
- Sugar auctions: another futile exercise
- Industry Review 2010
- Are banks allergic to innovation?
- OGDC rides on improved prices
- The PSDP fixation
- Bleak future for the BlackBerry maker!
- Bleak future for the BlackBerry maker!
- Bears back on the KSE?
- Bears back on the KSE?
- Of qualified competition in the chartered accountancy profession
- What the budget offers to the banking sector
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