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Howard Schneider

Opinion

An oil shock is coming, but the US may have already paid for it

The gusher of money the U.S. government poured into family bank accounts during the coronavirus pandemic, credited...

Published 11 Mar, 2022 05:12am

Opinion

Baptism by fire awaits today’s rate-hike rookies

Today’s central bankers have the unenviable task of weaning a pandemic-hit global economy off cheap money amid...

Published 26 Jan, 2022 04:42am

Opinion

Fed’s bond-buying programme may be on the way out, but it’s not going far

The Federal Reserve will start to shutter its pandemic-era bond-buying program later this year, leaving the US...

Published 25 Sep, 2021 04:59am

Opinion

Fed’s ‘big tent’ framework may fray under inflation surge

The US Federal Reserve’s carefully crafted move last year to a jobs-first monetary policy, touted as giving ...

Published 22 Jun, 2021 04:46am

Opinion

Job-inflation tradeoff, exiled from Fed policy, could mean a hot summer

Tension between sticky job markets and rising prices could pose a growing problem for U.S. Federal Reserve officials...

Published 25 May, 2021 04:40am

Opinion

Fed hopes for inflation psych-out, stable expectations, as prices rise

The Federal Reserve’s mission is to maintain “stable prices,” but Chair Jerome Powell’s take on that may ...

Published 23 Mar, 2021 04:37am

Opinion

Central banks will happily ignore inflation mongers

The world’s biggest central banks will happily live with higher inflation and investors now aggressively betting ...

Published 02 Mar, 2021 05:50am

Opinion

Fed’s Powell set table for Biden economy, but will he stay for dessert?

Over the past year Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has engineered the largest economic rescue in US history,...

Published 23 Feb, 2021 05:20am

Opinion

Rich nations tighten firehose of aid as virus outlasts early efforts

If Round One of the coronavirus relief effort was the economic equivalent of "shock and awe," new plans being...

Published 06 Oct, 2020 03:00am

Opinion

Powell's white-collar world led to Fed pivot for blue-collar jobs

ARTICLE: Raised in a white-collar Washington suburb, a product of prep schools, elite colleges and the 1% world of...

Published 29 Aug, 2020 02:49am

Opinion

When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. What happens when it has severe Covid-19?

ARTICLE: During a blue-sky moment in 2018 near the end of a decade-long economic expansion, it was the United States...

Published 21 Jul, 2020 02:55am

Markets

Fed's offered flood of credit so far just a trickle in practice

ARTICLE: The Federal Reserve's promise in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic to flood the U.S. economy with...

Published 01 Jul, 2020 03:09am

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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 4	278.62
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 4	278.42
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 4	160
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 4	0.79
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 4	1.34
Euro to USD / Jun 4	1.16
SOFR % / Jun 4	3.63

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 4	7,584.31
India Sensex / Jun 4	74,360.01
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 4	67,470.69
Nasdaq / Jun 4	26,830.96
Hang Seng / Jun 4	25,253.40
FTSE 100 / Jun 4	10,332.30
Dow Jones / Jun 4	51,561.93
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 4	24,944.95
France CAC40 / Jun 4	8,244.29

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 4	92.89
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 4	402,335
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 4	4,470.19
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 4	78.49
Petrol/Litre / Jun 5	381.78
Diesel/Litre / Jun 5	380.78

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Paramount Spinning / Jun 5 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	8.28 ▲ 0.87 (11.74%)
Zephyr Textile / Jun 5 Zephyr Textiles Limited(ZTL)	17.57 ▲ 1.6 (10.02%)
Ruby Textile / Jun 5 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	20.54 ▲ 1.87 (10.02%)
Pak Qatar Gen.Takaful / Jun 5 Pak Qatar General Takaful Limited(PQGTL)	16.70 ▲ 1.52 (10.01%)
Zahid Jee Textile / Jun 5 Zahidjee Textile Mills Limited(ZAHID)	60.80 ▲ 5.53 (10.01%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Jun 5 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	99.09 ▲ 9.01 (10%)
Zuma Resources / Jun 5 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	79.88 ▲ 7.26 (10%)
Kohinoor Power / Jun 5 Kohinoor Power Company Limited(KOHP)	28.51 ▲ 2.59 (9.99%)
Pak Qatar Family / Jun 5 Pak Qatar Family Takaful Limited(PAKQATAR)	27.97 ▲ 2.54 (9.99%)
Shadab Textile / Jun 5 Shadab Textile Mills Limited(SHDT)	53.50 ▲ 4.86 (9.99%)

Stock	Price
F.Credit & Inv / Jun 5 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	40.49 ▼ -4.5 (-10%)
Aisha Steel(ConPS) / Jun 5 Aisha Steel(ConPS)(ASLPS)	29.43 ▼ -3.27 (-10%)
AN Textile Mills / Jun 5 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	29.10 ▼ -2.7 (-8.49%)
Fateh Ind. / Jun 5 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	166.02 ▼ -14.04 (-7.8%)
Shakarganj / Jun 5 Shakarganj Limited(SML)	115.10 ▼ -7.04 (-5.76%)
Shahzad Tex. / Jun 5 Shahzad Textile Mills Limited(SZTM)	70 ▼ -4.2 (-5.66%)
Sana Ind / Jun 5 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	39.48 ▼ -2.24 (-5.37%)
Shadman Cotton / Jun 5 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	49.20 ▼ -2.47 (-4.78%)
Frontier Ceramics / Jun 5 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	75 ▼ -3.64 (-4.63%)
Next Capital / Jun 5 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	12.50 ▼ -0.58 (-4.43%)

Stock	Volume
Hascol Petrol / Jun 5 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	13,885,287 ▲ 0.65
Waves Home Appliances / Jun 5 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	11,893,517 ▲ 0.77
Pak Qatar Gen.Takaful / Jun 5 Pak Qatar General Takaful Limited(PQGTL)	10,031,833 ▲ 1.52
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 5 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	9,414,020 ▲ 0.01
TPL Properties / Jun 5 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	9,251,942 ▲ 0.31
Maple Leaf Cement / Jun 5 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	7,971,895 ▲ 1.2
Beco Steel Ltd / Jun 5 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	7,946,857 ▲ 0.03
TRG Pak Ltd / Jun 5 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	7,848,545 ▲ 1.45
Thatta Cement / Jun 5 Thatta Cement Company Limited(THCCL)	7,781,081 ▲ 4.72
Treet Battery / Jun 5 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	5,008,053 ▲ 0.18

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