Shahab Jafry

Opinion

The price of almost peace

Brent crude slipping below $90 a barrel on Tuesday ought to have offered an inflation-weary world some relief....

Updated 12 Nov, 2026 06:39am

Opinion

The bond market gets the last laugh

Treasury yields fell, the dollar weakened and gold climbed as investors began pricing in an unexpected consequence...

Updated 05 Nov, 2026 07:25am

Opinion

Let them eat bonds

France is providing a rather uncomfortable illustration of what happens when the global bond market begins...

Updated 29 Oct, 2026 06:02am

Opinion

Trump’s war, oil’s rules

Brent crude is trading above $108 a barrel despite a substantial recovery in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz,...

Updated 15 Oct, 2026 06:51am

Opinion

Whatever happened to boring bonds?

Something rather strange is happening in the supposedly sensible end of financial markets. The S&P 500 and...

Updated 08 Oct, 2026 06:27am

Opinion

What could possibly go wrong next?

Somehow, after a quarter in which oil rebounded 40 percent, US diesel prices hit records, the Federal Reserve raised...

Published 01 Oct, 2026 05:39am

Opinion

Sure, bonds are safe again

Perhaps the dollar is trying to tell us something. It has climbed to its highest level in two months even as oil has...

Published 24 Sep, 2026 05:47am

Opinion

Another fine mess for the Fed

My Wednesday deadline means I must always file my column just before important economic and financial announcements...

Published 17 Sep, 2026 02:47am

Opinion

The shock has stopped shocking

Perhaps the strangest thing about Brent crossing $100 again is how unsurprising it has begun to feel. Six months...

Published 10 Sep, 2026 06:20am

Opinion

Smile! The bond market is watching

So perhaps the red flag we have been watching in global bond markets for the past few weeks has finally stopped...

Updated 03 Sep, 2026 06:36am

Opinion

Bond market wants its pound of flesh

So perhaps global bond markets were trying to tell us something after all. For the past few months, long-dated...

Published 20 Aug, 2026 04:19am

Opinion

The fog of peace

What if the most revealing measure of Donald Trump’s elusive peace with Iran is no longer found in diplomatic...

Published 13 Aug, 2026 02:16am

Opinion

When the safe haven needs saving

For decades, financial markets have operated on one assumption so deeply embedded that few investors ever thought to...

Updated 06 Aug, 2026 06:23am

Opinion

When markets smell stagflation

Relief can be remarkably expensive. Only a few weeks ago, financial markets were celebrating what appeared to be the...

Updated 23 Jul, 2026 06:41am

Opinion

The conviction paradox

There is something rather unusual happening in financial markets. The more uncertain the future of artificial...

Updated 16 Jul, 2026 07:17am

Opinion

So, is it really “over”?

The first casualty of war is often certainty. The second, increasingly, appears to be financial markets. President...

Published 09 Jul, 2026 05:04am

Opinion

Banking on peace already?

Oil markets have spent the past week behaving as though the worst is over. Brent crude has surrendered much of its...

Published 02 Jul, 2026 05:45am

Opinion

Time to put the Greenspan Put to rest?

The timing is difficult to ignore. In the same week that Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100, markets found...

Published 25 Jun, 2026 05:32am

Opinion

Can oil derail AI?

The US-Israeli war on Iran has already produced a surprisingly long list of unintended consequences. Shipping routes...

Updated 11 Jun, 2026 06:56am

Opinion

The yen warning

The yen’s slide back to 160 against the dollar may look like a Japanese problem. Tokyo certainly thinks it is....

Updated 04 Jun, 2026 06:49am

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World
Commodity

Currency	Rate

Stock	Volume

Item	Value

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	6.07 ▲ 1 (19.72%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 13 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	8.77 ▲ 1 (12.87%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	2.64 ▲ 0.28 (11.86%)
Shabbir Tiles / Nov 13 Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Limited(STCL)	10.10 ▲ 1 (10.99%)
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	1.38 ▲ 0.13 (10.4%)
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Nov 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	12.06 ▲ 1.1 (10.04%)
Unicap Modaraba / Nov 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	22.84 ▲ 2.08 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Nov 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	82.90 ▲ 7.54 (10.01%)
Ningbo Green Light / Nov 13 Ningbo Green Light Energy Limited(NGLEL)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)
Zuma Resources / Nov 13 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	33.75 ▲ 3.07 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Arpak Int. / Nov 13 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	124.84 ▼ -13.87 (-10%)
First AL-Noor Mod. / Nov 13 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	12.64 ▼ -1.36 (-9.71%)
Shadman Cotton / Nov 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	69.87 ▼ -6.73 (-8.79%)
Fateh Sports / Nov 13 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	193.60 ▼ -16.58 (-7.89%)
Asim Textile / Nov 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	62.73 ▼ -4.34 (-6.47%)
D.M. Corporation / Nov 13 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	151.06 ▼ -9.64 (-6%)
Bhanero Textile / Nov 13 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	1,207.41 ▼ -76.42 (-5.95%)
Hira Textile / Nov 13 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4.01 ▼ -0.24 (-5.65%)
J.A.Textile / Nov 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	73.72 ▼ -4.26 (-5.46%)
AN Textile Mills / Nov 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	58.55 ▼ -3.21 (-5.2%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	303,195,710 ▲ 0.13
Kohinoor Spinning / Nov 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	59,505,118 ▲ 0.34
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	46,791,082 ▲ 0.28
Dost Steels Ltd. / Nov 13 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	43,180,738 ▲ 0.37
TPL Properties / Nov 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	32,746,701 ▲ 0.48
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Nov 13 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	27,571,943 ▲ 0.05
F. Nat.Equities / Nov 13 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	24,996,122 ▲ 0.01
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	24,965,743 ▲ 1
Cnergyico PK / Nov 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	22,527,745 ▲ 0.14
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 13 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	21,467,835 ▲ 0.82

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