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M Ziauddin

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

Opinion

Exploiting comparative advantages

The federal budget for the year 2021-22 is being framed by Shaukat Tarin during whose earlier tenure as the federal...

Published 02 Jun, 2021 04:29am

Opinion

‘Unrealistic’ but not unbelievable

More than the opposition or bitter critics of the PTI-led coalition government, it is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s...

Published 26 May, 2021 03:45am

Opinion

Helping pandemic-hit developing countries

To help developing countries grappling with the Covid-19 crisis, official donors increased foreign aid to an ...

Published 19 May, 2021 06:00am

Opinion

Amazing e-Commerce opportunities

Amazon, the e-Commerce giant, has recently added Pakistan to its approved sellers list, making it the 102nd country...

Published 12 May, 2021 04:23am

Opinion

The pitfalls and the prospects

Pakistan’s exports to European Union countries may stay in a danger zone as the European parliament last Thursday...

Published 05 May, 2021 04:01am

Opinion

Unmasking the ‘Mafias’

Lately the so-called ‘Mafias’ are being increasingly blamed for almost all the ills that the national economy is...

Published 28 Apr, 2021 03:18am

Opinion

Desperate call for debt relief

Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan once again urged the global community, particularly financial organisations, to...

Published 21 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

Actions should suit resources

We are back into the IMF’s 3-year $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement having received a $500...

Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

An Iran-Pakistan economic corridor?

There was this hope, however diffident, that Pakistan would take full advantage of India’s current willingness to...

Published 07 Apr, 2021 03:48am

Opinion

A geoeconomics-led Indo-Pak détente?

Unless we remove our economy from the bottle in which we had managed to thrust it as we tried to cope with the harsh...

Published 31 Mar, 2021 05:42am

Opinion

Prospects, pitfalls of high tech

As China becomes a global data superpower, it is likely to control huge quantities of a resource that will be...

Published 24 Mar, 2021 05:10am

Opinion

And we kept missing the bus

There was a time during the 1990s when we used to talk a lot about how we wish we could emulate the Asian Tigers....

Published 17 Mar, 2021 04:45am

Opinion

At the threshold of a new world

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the process of reorganizing the world. The US and China are already in the midst...

Published 10 Mar, 2021 04:59am

Opinion

‘Time to dust off’ Keynesian theory

The world economy seems to be coming out of the pandemic largely unscathed. According the latest OECD trade report,...

Published 03 Mar, 2021 05:49am

Opinion

The same old tale told repetitively

We are back at the so-called ‘concessional’ window of the lender of the last resort. But then, the International...

Published 24 Feb, 2021 05:24am

Opinion

What goes around comes around

Circular economy, an innovative business model developed recently, offers countries like Pakistan suffering from...

Published 17 Feb, 2021 04:24am

Opinion

Time to abandon shareholders’ capitalism

In China a majority of the economy is in private hands, but the government retains a decisive role, setting the...

Published 10 Feb, 2021 04:12am

Opinion

High on CPI but not completely clean

Deadly drugs are produced clandestinely in many parts of the world because they are in great demand in the rich...

Published 03 Feb, 2021 04:35am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Sep 6	278.65
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Sep 6	278.45
USD to Japanese Yen / Sep 6	142.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Sep 6	0.84
Pound Sterling to USD / Sep 6	1.31
Euro to USD / Sep 6	1.11

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Sep 6	5,408.42
India Sensex / Sep 6	81,183.93
Tokyo Nikkei / Sep 6	36,391.47
Nasdaq / Sep 6	16,690.83
Hang Seng / Sep 6	17,444.30
FTSE 100 / Sep 6	8,181.47
Dow Jones / Sep 6	40,345.41
Germany DAX 30 / Sep 6	18,301.90

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Sep 6	67.67
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Sep 6	227,970.30
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Sep 6	2,497.41
Cotton US¢/pound / Sep 6	67.88
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Sep 7	18,535
Petrol/Litre / Sep 8	259.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Sep 8 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Sep 8 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Sep 8 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Sep 8 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Sep 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Sep 8 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Sep 8 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Sep 8 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Sep 8 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Sep 8 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Sep 8 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Sep 8 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Sep 8 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Sep 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Sep 8 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Sep 8 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Sep 8 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Sep 8 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Sep 8 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Sep 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Sep 8 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Sep 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Sep 8 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Sep 8 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Sep 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Sep 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Sep 8 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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