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Waqar Masood Khan

Opinion

Economic developments and business confidence

We have a mixed bag of economic developments. The foreign trade data for October shows encouraging signs. The ...

Published 11 Nov, 2022 05:54am

Opinion

Global economy and challenges for Pakistan

The following two paragraphs from the World Economic Outlook, October 2022, neatly sum up the challenges facing the...

Published 03 Nov, 2022 05:50am

Opinion

Emerging economic stability

The balance of payments (BOP) for the first quarter Jul-Sep is encouraging for the stability of the economy. There...

Published 26 Oct, 2022 05:52am

Opinion

Money market and debt management

Money market has been behaving quite unusually. The standard theory suggests the yield curve on the bills and bonds...

Published 12 Oct, 2022 05:46am

Opinion

1Q: Economic performance

In our last article we had expressed the hope of potential turnaround in the economy. Some early data for the month...

Published 05 Oct, 2022 05:49am

Opinion

Emerging economic trends

We have nearly full data for the first two months of the fiscal year. The level of expenditures, tax collections,...

Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am

Opinion

FY2022-23: Balance of payments

The continuing turmoil in the forex market is a bewildering experience with no parallel in the country’s history....

Published 21 Sep, 2022 05:57am

Opinion

The continuing drift

The trade data for the month of August has revealed continuing challenges to macroeconomic framework. It is shocking...

Published 07 Sep, 2022 04:13am

Opinion

A drifting economy

It is quite distressful to see the nascent economic recovery ceding way to the same uncertainty and drift that...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 05:50am

Opinion

Fiscal performance in 2021-22

The results of fiscal operations for 2021-22 have been released. It is a spectacle of one of the worst fiscal...

Published 24 Aug, 2022 05:08am

Opinion

FY2023: An auspicious start

Around mid-July, Pak-istan witnessed most volatile conditions in the forex market. Political turmoil, delays in...

Published 11 Aug, 2022 04:35am

Opinion

Forex market turmoil and possibility of default

On 18th July 22, the country witnessed an unprecedented turmoil in the forex market. Dashing all expectations of...

Published 27 Jul, 2022 05:23am

Opinion

Economic round-up 2021-22

The just concluded fiscal year has been tumultuous. It was both economics and politics that made it extraordinary,...

Updated 20 Jul, 2022 10:50am

Opinion

An elusive IMF programme

One can say with reasonable confidence that the economic circumstances facing today have no parallel in the history...

Published 13 Jul, 2022 05:48am

Opinion

Budget 2022-23 – Amended

In our previous article (BR: 13- 6-2022) we had examined Budget 2022-23 from the point of view of the IMF...

Published 29 Jun, 2022 05:44am

Opinion

Budget 2022-23 and the IMF programme

There are any number of ways in which a budget can be characterized. Terms, such as, pro-poor, investors’ ...

Published 14 Jun, 2022 05:56am

Opinion

Fiscal affairs and Constitution – II

In Part-I we had outlined the basic framework governing the budgetary affairs in the constitution. Let us reiterate...

Updated 08 Jun, 2022 08:09pm

Opinion

Fiscal affairs and Constitution

Ghalib once remarked that (In my construct, there is an element of malady). The genesis of fiscal malaise originates...

Published 01 Jun, 2022 05:53am

Opinion

A fiscal quagmire: genesis

In the last article, many readers felt that there was no explanation as to how we came to this pass and what ...

Published 25 May, 2022 04:40am

Opinion

A fiscal quagmire?

A few days ago, Ministry of Finance released the details of fiscal operations covering three quarters Jul-Mar...

Published 11 May, 2022 04:58am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Mar 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.95 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Mar 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	361.20 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Mar 26 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Mar 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Mar 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Mar 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	62.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Mar 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	398.28 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Mar 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Mar 26 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Mar 26 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	56.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Mar 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.95 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Mar 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	361.20 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Mar 26 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Mar 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Mar 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Mar 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	62.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Mar 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	398.28 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Mar 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Mar 26 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Mar 26 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	56.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	4,011,170 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Mar 26 Telecard Limited(TELE)	3,877,000 ▲ 0.00
TPL Properties / Mar 26 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	1,839,174 ▲ 0.00
Pak Elektron / Mar 26 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	1,788,500 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Cement / Mar 26 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	1,517,500 ▲ 0.00
Ghani Glo Hol / Mar 26 Ghani Global Holdings Limited(GGL)	1,464,753 ▲ 0.00
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	1,323,297 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Mar 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	1,307,610 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Mar 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	1,204,138 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Mar 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	1,161,000 ▲ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 22	285.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 22	283.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 24	130.73
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 24	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 24	1.22
Euro to USD / Mar 24	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 22	4.56

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 24	3970.99
India Sensex / Mar 24	57527.10
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 24	27385.25
Nasdaq / Mar 24	11823.96
Hang Seng / Mar 24	19915.68
FTSE 100 / Mar 24	7405.45
Dow Jones / Mar 24	32237.53
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 24	14957.23
France CAC40 / Mar 24	7015.10

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 21	19235
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 22	175068
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 24	69.26
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 24	1978.21
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 24	76.54

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