News stories for Dr Omer Javed

Reforming agricultural sector

Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan's economy. Unfortunately, for long it has been neglected by successive...

Published 25 Sep, 2020 02:45am

Opinion

Serious issues in WB's doing business report

'The World Bank should no longer publish its Doing Business index, owing to its flawed design and vulnerability to...

Published 18 Sep, 2020 02:59am

Opinion

Reforming energy subsidy

ARTICLE: In Pakistan, many households are finding it difficult to access affordable and reliable electricity....

Published 11 Sep, 2020 02:42am

Opinion

Wind and solar energy: moving towards a green future

ARTICLE: 'Countries across the world are now on the same path - building wind turbines and solar panels to replace...

Published 04 Sep, 2020 02:57am

Markets

Economy: govt’s misplaced exuberance

ARTICLE:Stock markets only are a weak indicator of the overall performance of any economy, especially in terms of ...

Published 28 Aug, 2020 02:02am

Opinion

Undo neo-liberalism

ARTICLE: 'This nation asks for action, and action now' - Franklin D. Roosevelt As a government that came on the...

Published 21 Aug, 2020 03:10am

Opinion

Global economic growth woes in the midst of pandemic

ARTICLE: "The COVID-19 crisis has been a brutal reminder that, for all of our wealth and technological mastery, we...

Published 14 Aug, 2020 03:15am

Opinion

Investment outlook

ARTICLE: In these times of great uncertainty about economic outlook of countries in the wake of the pandemic, at...

Published 07 Aug, 2020 02:45am

Opinion

Time for 'Great Reset' of political and economic order

ARTICLE: 'We are living in an era of multiple crises: Covid-19; a crisis of economic disappointment; a crisis of...

Published 31 Jul, 2020 02:42am

Opinion

Reforming the power sector: undoing the neoliberal mindset

ARTICLE: "Pakistan has continued to suffer from inadequate capacity and other constraints, leading to large and...

Published 24 Jul, 2020 02:59am

Opinion

Oil market: issues and outlook

ARTICLE: From the start of the millennium - to be more precise since 1999 - till around the middle of 2008 when the...

Published 17 Jul, 2020 02:53am

Markets

Debt, deficits, and welfare during the pandemic

ARTICLE: 'The best way to predict your future is to create it' - Abraham Lincoln The global pandemic has pushed the...

Published 10 Jul, 2020 02:47am

Opinion

Covid-19 and 'disaster capitalism'

ARTICLE: Shock and awe are actions that create fears, dangers, and destruction that are incomprehensible to the...

Published 03 Jul, 2020 02:59am

Markets

'Economic war cabinet' - IK's finest hour in PM's office

ARTICLE: Covid-19 has unleashed a war-like situation for economies across the world. According to the International...

Published 26 Jun, 2020 03:34am

Opinion

Fragile oil markets

ARTICLE: As lockdowns ease globally oil demand has picked up, causing in turn a bounce-back in prices of both Brent...

Published 19 Jun, 2020 03:27am

Opinion

Managing the economics of a needed lockdown

ARTICLE: The pandemic has badly hurt the country's economy with real GDP growth rate, according to World Bank's...

Published 12 Jun, 2020 03:07am

Opinion

There were already discussions gaining momentum since the Global Financial Crisis 2007/08 in many policy corners of economy and politics globally - but still remained far from reaching any meaningful threshold in terms of consequences on three main areas

Updated 13 Jun, 2020 09:49pm

Opinion

A looming debt crisis

In his article in the New York Times on April 30, 2020, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed highlighted the fact that the temporary debt relief provided by G20 group of countries, however a welcome step, it was not

Published 22 May, 2020 12:03am

Opinion

A post-Covid-19 world

Major wars and pandemics, are the sort of happenings that change the world as we know it before they have happened. The Black Death lead to massive deaths in the Middle Ages, also it broke the back of feudalism and created a working class. On the positive

Published 15 May, 2020 12:05am

Opinion

Covid-19 and 'Green New Deal' - II

The developing countries are not doing much different from the rest. There is no discussion to plan even reform and support packages that bail workers out on a large scale, and not the big businesses; a reform plan that revisits the economic model towards

Published 08 May, 2020 12:05am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 26	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 26	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 26	153.77
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 26	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 26	1.29
Euro to USD / Jul 26	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 25	5,399.22
Nasdaq / Jul 25	17,181.72
Dow Jones / Jul 25	39,935.07
India Sensex / Jul 26	80,709.64
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 26	37,865.35
Hang Seng / Jul 26	17,058.55
FTSE 100 / Jul 26	8,255.78
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 26	18,346.62

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 26	78.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 26	17,035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 26	215,621
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 26	2,374.19
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 26	68.62
Petrol/Litre / Jul 27	275.60

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Jul 27 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jul 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Jul 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jul 27 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Jul 27 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Jul 27 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 27 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jul 27 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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