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Shahab Jafry

‘Israel’s wet dream’

One of the many enduring paradoxes of American democracy is that a businessman-president—soon to return to his real...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 05:53am

Opinion

Pressure without clarity breeds market volatility

With the tariff reprieve deadline behind us and the long-promised Trump-Xi phone call still nowhere on the calendar,...

Updated 05 Jun, 2025 08:01am

Opinion

Mispricing the volatility regime?

It’s hard to price in the unpredictable. That’s the market’s dilemma with Trump’s second coming. While some...

Updated 29 May, 2025 07:45am

Opinion

Market’s red flag

Notice Mr Market’s reaction to the sudden spike in geopolitical risk premium as war clouds gather over Iran once...

Updated 22 May, 2025 07:18am

Opinion

Trump’s biggest surprise yet

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, the world braced itself for the customary shockwaves of his...

Updated 15 May, 2025 07:53am

Opinion

Hostage to narrative

It’s interesting and instructive how modern communication technologies – twitter feed, real time video – just...

Published 08 May, 2025 06:54am

Opinion

Temper, tantrums, trust and gold

Gold has been mankind’s ultimate financial refuge since Biblical times. From the treasure vaults of Pharaohs to...

Published 24 Apr, 2025 04:11am

Opinion

Not your garden-variety FX wobble

King Dollar’s crown has weathered countless storms – but the recent market whirlwind has people asking if this...

Published 17 Apr, 2025 06:15am

Opinion

So much for the ‘Trump put’

Nobody’s surprised anymore that financial markets are throwing such a fit over Donald Trump’s tariffs. If you think...

Published 10 Apr, 2025 03:14am

Opinion

Smart money runs first

Even by the turbulent standards of emerging markets, the past week was a master class in how quickly capital can...

Updated 27 Mar, 2025 05:50am

Opinion

Textbook Trump uncertainty

Sounds crazy, but at first markets really thought Trump was bluffing about upending the global trade and tariff...

Updated 13 Mar, 2025 07:20am

Opinion

Trump Trade in retreat?

It’s still early days, of course, but it seems the so-called Trump Trade is already unraveling, and with it, many of...

Published 06 Mar, 2025 06:42am

Opinion

Too late to buy gold?

Gold’s relentless climb toward record highs is no mystery for Mr Market. In a world where financial markets are...

Published 27 Feb, 2025 06:44am

Opinion

Power abhors vacuum

Everybody expected Trump’s obsession with tariffs to rattle international financial markets, no doubt, yet few...

Published 13 Feb, 2025 07:07am

Opinion

‘Whom the gods would destroy…’

So, what’s more ridiculous? A properly senile relic in charge of the sole superpower (read Biden), or a deliberately...

Published 06 Feb, 2025 03:16am

Opinion

China does more with less

The sudden rise of DeepSeek has been fascinating and instructive on so many levels. Just like that, it forced...

Published 30 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Opinion

What more could Bibi have done?

EDITORIAL: Turns out that Donald Trump’s warning, that “all hell would break out in the Middle East” if a deal...

Updated 23 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Opinion

New century, new Great Game?

The fact that Pakistan’s intelligence chief went on a rare visit to Tajikistan in the last days of 2024 means...

Updated 09 Jan, 2025 07:46am

Opinion

The complicated web we weave

A former Afghan journalist I once ran into in China – one who gave up a comfortable life in the Gulf to return to...

Updated 02 Jan, 2025 08:22am

Opinion

Cui bono?

It didn’t take long for headlines out of Syria to turn, did it? Locals that set fire to Hafez al Assad’s grave...

Published 19 Dec, 2024 06:30am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 23	283.90
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 23	283.60
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 23	147.27
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 23	0.82
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 23	1.34
Euro to USD / Jun 23	1.15
UK LIBOR % / Jun 20	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 20	5,967.84
Nasdaq / Jun 20	19,447.41
Dow Jones / Jun 20	42,206.82
India Sensex / Jun 23	81,805.29
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 23	38,354.09
Hang Seng / Jun 23	23,650.62
FTSE 100 / Jun 23	8,779.33
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 23	23,247.79
France CAC40 / Jun 23	7,558.55

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 20	16,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 20	306,069
Petrol/Litre / Jun 23	258.43
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 23	74.78
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 23	3,353.56
Diesel/Litre / Jun 23	262.59
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 23	66.65

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Cresent Jute / Jun 23 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	7.49 ▲ 1 (15.41%)
AN Textile Mills / Jun 23 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	25.70 ▲ 2.34 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jun 23 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	42.90 ▲ 3.9 (10%)
Rupali polyester / Jun 23 Rupali Polyester Limited(RUPL)	27.07 ▲ 2.46 (10%)
Frontier Ceram / Jun 23 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	36.30 ▲ 3.3 (10%)
Karam Ceramics / Jun 23 Karam Ceramics Limited(KCL)	66.80 ▲ 6.07 (10%)
Shams Textile / Jun 23 Shams Textile Mills Limited(STML)	34.67 ▲ 3.15 (9.99%)
First Elite Cap.Mod / Jun 23 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	36.88 ▲ 3.35 (9.99%)
Jubilee Spinning / Jun 23 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	12.35 ▲ 1.12 (9.97%)
Fazal Cloth / Jun 23 Fazal Cloth Mills Limited(FZCM)	205.54 ▲ 18.54 (9.91%)

Stock	Price
United BankXD / Jun 23 United Bank Limited(UBL)	261.81 ▼ -262.38 (-50.05%)
First Prudential Mod. / Jun 23 First Prudential Modaraba(PMI)	3.49 ▼ -0.61 (-14.88%)
First Fid. Leasing / Jun 23 First Fidelity Leasing Modaraba(FFLM)	2.31 ▼ -0.34 (-12.83%)
Invest Bank / Jun 23 Invest Capital Investment Bank Limited(ICIBL)	7.21 ▼ -0.98 (-11.97%)
Askari Life Assur. / Jun 23 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	6.99 ▼ -0.95 (-11.96%)
Ghani Chemworld / Jun 23 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	7.98 ▼ -1 (-11.14%)
Yousuf Weaving / Jun 23 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	4.22 ▼ -0.52 (-10.97%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jun 23 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.75 ▼ -0.88 (-10.2%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Jun 23 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	32.36 ▼ -3.6 (-10.01%)
Chashma / Jun 23 Chashma Sugar Mills Limited(CHAS)	57.60 ▼ -6.4 (-10%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 23 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	53,303,035 ▼ -0.1
Sui South Gas / Jun 23 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	35,996,379 ▼ -4.2
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Jun 23 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	24,022,793 ▼ -0.12
K-Electric Ltd. / Jun 23 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	23,740,292 ▼ -0.24
Kohinoor Spining / Jun 23 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	22,523,059 ▼ -0.54
Fauji Cement / Jun 23 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	16,264,731 ▼ -4.16
Cnergyico PK / Jun 23 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	14,226,103 ▼ -0.48
Maple Leaf Cement / Jun 23 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	14,036,410 ▼ -5.02
Dewan Cement / Jun 23 Dewan Cement Limited(DCL)	13,766,080 ▼ -1.36
B.O.Punjab / Jun 23 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	13,746,025 ▼ -0.36

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