Osama Rizvi

Perspectives

A Trump presidency won’t fare well for Pakistan. Here’s why

It is that time of the year when everyone in Pakistan will somehow want to believe that the US elections will...

Published 04 Nov, 2024 06:24pm

Perspectives

What’s up with Pakistan’s stock market?

In the early minutes of trading on Friday, the KSE-100 – widely seen as the benchmark index – suffered a massive...

Published 07 Jun, 2024 12:12pm

Perspectives

Pakistan’s Civil Services Exams: making a case for provision of bilingual mode in interviews

Learning Via Negativa, or addition through subtraction, is a highly useful technique to learn. Acting upon this...

Published 14 May, 2024 07:44pm

Perspectives

‘Canadian dream’: is it really as appealing for Pakistanis as it used to be?

Popularised by the best-seller, Epic America (1931), the term American dream became synonymous with the story of...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 03:07pm

Perspectives

Longer working hours, productivity: there is no correlation

We have a lot to thank the Industrial Revolution for including innovations, efficiency, and the infamous 9am-5pm...

Published 27 Feb, 2024 06:38pm

Perspectives

In order to attract butterflies, we need to build a garden

In the intricate dance of global economics, metaphors often serve as guiding lights, illuminating complex concepts...

Published 01 Nov, 2023 04:30pm

Perspectives

Pakistan: an example of organised irresponsibility and polycrisis

The people of Pakistan have continued to find themselves in a persistent, chronic and unending crisis that takes...

Published 17 Sep, 2023 12:25am

Perspectives

Pakistan’s economy and its people close to the ‘Tipping Point’

The Tipping Point is a theory, made famous by Malcolm Gladwell in his book of the same name. The idea is that there...

Updated 29 Aug, 2023 04:39pm

Perspectives

The only constant: change itself

With the amoebic orientation of political, scientific, economic and social realms in the past 100 years, the...

Published 25 Apr, 2023 05:54pm

Perspectives

Pakistan's crisis is a moral one — not an economic one

The deluge of numbers pouring into the news on a daily basis is producing an unimaginable feeling of dread pervasive...

Updated 10 Mar, 2023 04:58pm

Perspectives

Europe’s energy crisis isn’t over: 2023 to remain challenging

There are many articles out there claiming that as Europe experience moderate temperatures this year, with...

Published 02 Feb, 2023 12:44am

Perspectives

Economic chaos in Pakistan: outlook is gloomy

Pakistan is in the news but for all the wrong reasons. The events unfolding in the country are by no means unique...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 05:10pm

Perspectives

Pakistan’s economy will face further headwinds

When Jerome Powell, chairman of the most important central bank in the world, Federal Reserve Bank of America...

Published 02 Sep, 2022 07:56pm

Perspectives

Oil prices: the biggest tail-risk for Pakistan’s economy

A tail-risk is an event that has an extremely low probability of occurring but when it does, the loss is severe and...

Published 01 Jun, 2022 07:22pm

Markets

Oil prices will fall again?

ARTICLE: Oil prices have staged an extraordinary recovery. In seven weeks the price of West Texas Intermediate, WTI,...

Published 09 Jul, 2020 02:43am

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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 20	278.15
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 20	277.95
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 20	162.36
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 20	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 20	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 20	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 20	3.62

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
India Sensex / Jul 20	77,708.52
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 20	64,141.12
Hang Seng / Jul 20	25,069.85
FTSE 100 / Jul 20	10,562.80
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 20	24,913.94
France CAC40 / Jul 20	8,361.60

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 20	84.29
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 20	18,880
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 20	363,971
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 20	4,011.10
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 20	79.24
Petrol/Litre / Jul 21	315.80
Diesel/Litre / Jul 21	360.06

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Asia Ins. / Jul 20 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	37.90 ▲ 3.45 (10.01%)
TPL Insurance / Jul 20 TPL Insurance Limited(TPLI)	64.08 ▲ 5.83 (10.01%)
Ahmad Hassan / Jul 20 Ahmad Hassan Textile Mills Limited(AHTM)	100.21 ▲ 9.11 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 20 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	460.42 ▲ 41.86 (10%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 20 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	59.05 ▲ 5.37 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 20 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	299.43 ▲ 27.22 (10%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	118.34 ▲ 10.76 (10%)
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49.05 ▲ 4.46 (10%)
Husein Industries / Jul 20 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	55 ▲ 5 (10%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jul 20 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	45.98 ▲ 4.18 (10%)

Stock	Price
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 20 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,684.32 ▼ -187.15 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 20 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	56.04 ▼ -6.23 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	87.83 ▼ -9.76 (-10%)
Maqbool Textile / Jul 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	33.43 ▼ -3.71 (-9.99%)
Ideal Dynamics / Jul 20 Ideal Dynamics Limited(IDEAL)	49.50 ▼ -5.25 (-9.59%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 20 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	136.39 ▼ -13.9 (-9.25%)
Buxly Paints / Jul 20 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	173.04 ▼ -16.9 (-8.9%)
ARM Green Industries / Jul 20 ARM Green Industries Limited(ARMG)	64.63 ▼ -6.07 (-8.59%)
Elahi Cotton / Jul 20 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	216.01 ▼ -20.08 (-8.51%)
Metro Steel / Jul 20 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	22.03 ▼ -2.02 (-8.4%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	166,059,814 ▲ 0.8
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49,159,104 ▲ 4.46
TPL Properties / Jul 20 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	38,436,785 ▲ 0.41
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Jul 20 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	36,283,729 ▲ 0.15
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	27,615,297 ▼ -0.07
Lotte Chemical / Jul 20 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,575,908 ▲ 0.54
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	15,089,114 ▲ 0
B.O.Punjab / Jul 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	14,202,726 ▲ 0.01
Maple Leaf Cement / Jul 20 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	13,521,739 ▲ 0.86
F. Nat.Equities / Jul 20 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	13,125,536 ▲ 0.01

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