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M Ziauddin

Opinion

Economic melt-down in the making?

Pakistan’s oil import bill has widened by over 97 percent to $4.59 billion in the first quarter of current fiscal...

Published 21 Oct, 2021 04:38am

Opinion

Belt and Road vs Build Back Better

The US has decided to confront China in every aspect of human endeavour to keep what Washington regards as the 'free...

Updated 13 Oct, 2021 06:15pm

Opinion

And now Pandora Papers

The Pandora papers, though revealing a gigantic store of hidden treasure of riches beyond the reach of the law and...

Published 06 Oct, 2021 04:17am

Opinion

3D-printed houses

In some parts of the world houses are being built using the 3d printing technology. Countries as rich as the US and...

Published 29 Sep, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel

At the fag-end of last month and with the next general elections only 23 months away, Finance Minister Shaukat ...

Published 22 Sep, 2021 03:48am

Opinion

‘Aid-to-Afghanistan Consortium’?

Afghanistan is facing a severe economic downturn that could throw many millions into poverty and hunger, may ...

Published 15 Sep, 2021 04:19am

Opinion

De-dollarisation can pick up speed

A new humanitarian crisis could be imminent in Afghanistan, as the World Food Programme of the United Nations has...

Published 08 Sep, 2021 04:06am

Opinion

The goal was endless war

According to the terms of the Washington-Taliban agreement signed in Doha in February 2020, the US is bound to...

Published 01 Sep, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

Kabul's economic challenges

Perhaps out of pique or anger for what has seemed as an ignominious defeat suffered at the hands of the ramshackle...

Published 25 Aug, 2021 04:43am

Opinion

The economy of relocation

Pakistan’s economy has remained predominantly import based all through the past seven decades. However, since the...

Published 18 Aug, 2021 04:00am

Opinion

China 'out-STEMs' the US

A large share of the best universities in the world is said to be in the United States and they are known for...

Published 11 Aug, 2021 04:27am

Opinion

Trading out of trouble

Last year China announced that it had eradicated extreme poverty. As of 2018 the number of people living in extreme...

Published 04 Aug, 2021 04:14am

Opinion

UK’s role in global illicit finance?

On the face of it, the UK government has made good progress in implementing the actions of its 2019 Economic Crime...

Published 28 Jul, 2021 04:45am

Opinion

Stop the war; ‘Mine’ the economy

Now that the last of the foreign occupying troops are seen leaving Afghanistan it is time to put an end to the...

Published 21 Jul, 2021 01:51am

Opinion

Socio-economic cost: Falling fertility rates in rich world

As we, in the developing countries like Pakistan, worry about perennial population explosion, the situation in the...

Published 14 Jul, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

It is the rich countries, stupid!

The sword of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is continuing to hang over the head of Pakistan, not because...

Published 07 Jul, 2021 04:28am

Opinion

A new kind of cold war in the offing?

The world is likely to witness a boom in physical infrastructure development activity as the Blue Dot Network (BDN),...

Published 30 Jun, 2021 03:54am

Opinion

An economic mishap in the making

Pakistan’s estimated population, according to the National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS), is 215.25...

Published 23 Jun, 2021 04:26am

Opinion

'New' Washington Consensus

The good news is the new budgetary proposals attempt to detach the national economy from the regressive...

Published 16 Jun, 2021 03:39am

Opinion

Beyond GDP

French economist Thomas Piketty in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that the rate of capital ...

Published 09 Jun, 2021 03:29am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Buxly / Oct 26 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	133.00 ▲ 8.98 (7.24%)
Kohinoor Sp. / Oct 26 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	4.42 ▲ 0.21 (4.99%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / Oct 26 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	25.90 ▲ 0.92 (3.68%)
Fauji Cement / Oct 26 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	19.10 ▲ 0.66 (3.58%)
Kot Addu / Oct 26 Kot Addu Power Company Limited(KAPCO)	27.25 ▲ 0.62 (2.33%)
Hum Network / Oct 26 Hum Network Limited(HUMNL)	6.78 ▲ 0.11 (1.65%)
Pak Elektron / Oct 26 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	26.49 ▲ 0.37 (1.42%)
Service Fab. / Oct 26 Service Fabrics Limited(SERF)	10.82 ▲ 0.15 (1.41%)
Searle Co. / Oct 26 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	232.00 ▲ 3.03 (1.32%)
Byco Petroleum / Oct 26 Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited(BYCO)	7.29 ▲ 0.07 (0.97%)

Stock	Price
Azgard Nine. N.V. (R) / Oct 26 Azgard Nine (Non-Voting).(R) (ANLNVR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Azgard Nine(R) / Oct 26 Azgard Nine Limited. (R)(ANLR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Al-Shaheer Corp.(R) / Oct 26 Al-Shaheer Corporation Limited.(R)(ASCR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Escorts Inv.Bank (R) / Oct 26 Escorts Investment Bank Limited (R)(ESBLR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Fauji Fert. Bin (R) / Oct 26 Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited (R)(FFBLR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Ghani Glass (R) / Oct 26 Ghani Glass Limited (R)(GHGLR2)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Hascol Petroleum (R) / Oct 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited (R)(HASCOLR1)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
IGI Life Ins. (R) / Oct 26 IGI Life Insurance Limited (R)(IGILR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
Sazgar Engineering (R) / Oct 26 Sazgar Engineering Works Ltd. (R) (SAZEWR)	0.00 ▼ 0.00 (%)
786 Investments / Oct 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	0.00 ▲ -7.00 (-100.00%)

Stock	Volume
Hum Network / Oct 26 Hum Network Limited(HUMNL)	11,500 ▼ 0.00
Byco Petroleum / Oct 26 Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited(BYCO)	6,000 ▼ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd / Oct 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	3,000 ▼ 0.00
Buxly / Oct 26 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	2,500 ▼ 0.00
Searle Co. / Oct 26 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	2,000 ▼ 0.00
Bank of Punjab / Oct 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	1,500 ▼ 0.00
Amreli Steels / Oct 26 Amreli Steels Limited(ASTL)	1,000 ▼ 0.00
Avanceon Ltd / Oct 26 Avanceon Limited(AVN)	1,000 ▼ 0.00
Engro Fertilizers / Oct 26 Engro Fertilizers Limited(EFERT)	1,000 ▼ 0.00
Jahangir Sid. Co. / Oct 26 Jahangir Siddiqui & Co. Ltd.(JSCL)	1,000 ▼ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Oct 23	174.10
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Oct 23	174.00
USD to Japanese Yen / Oct 23	113.50
USD to Swiss Franc / Oct 23	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Oct 23	1.38
Euro to USD / Oct 23	1.16
UK LIBOR % / Oct 23	0.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Oct 23	4544.90
India Sensex / Oct 23	60821.62
Tokyo Nikkei / Oct 23	28804.85
Nasdaq / Oct 23	15090.20
Hang Seng / Oct 23	26126.93
FTSE 100 / Oct 23	7204.55
Dow Jones / Oct 23	35677.02
Germany DAX 30 / Oct 23	15542.98
France CAC40 / Oct 23	6733.69