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Fertiliser off-take flattens, spending soars

Farmer spent the highest ever on fertilizers in FY19. The total urea and DAP combined application in FY19 was down by 2

Published 26 Jul, 2019 06:27am

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Pakistan’s economy: 50 years ago

Who knew a trip to library could be a depressing affair? Yesterday morning, BR Research stumbled upon a dusty old copy o

Published 25 Jul, 2019 06:46am

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Khan’s diplomatic coup

It was a high-risk, low-return scenario. But from Pakistan’s perspective, PM Khan’s White House visit could not have gon

Published 24 Jul, 2019 07:10am

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The rusty cogs of policymaking process

Pakistan’s Fisheries Exporters Association is unhappy with the “sudden implementation of fisheries policy without consul

Published 24 Jul, 2019 07:07am

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Using food security paradigm to forecast wheat demand

In a series of columns published in this space, several key conclusions about Pakistan’s current food security paradigm

Published 24 Jul, 2019 06:55am

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Imports and the bogeyman

Boo! Parents (often cruelly) use the bogeyman to scare their errant children and condition better behaviour and obedienc

Published 23 Jul, 2019 06:46am

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Khan at Capital One: a lost opportunity

That PM Khan managed to attract such a big audience in Washington deserves commendation. It has probably left his rivals

Updated 23 Jul, 2019 06:56am

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Is Pakistan wheat-insecure?

Consider following three facts. First, as per annual crop statistics, Pakistan is among world’s top 25 regions with annu

Published 23 Jul, 2019 06:22am

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Export silver linings

Many hopes were pinned on exports to help improve Pakistan’s trade deficit, especially in view of massive currency depre

Published 22 Jul, 2019 06:43am

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Mad about Cad?

Kudos to the government for chopping the current account deficit (Cad) significantly in FY19! At $13.6 billion, Cad came

Published 22 Jul, 2019 06:35am

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Cereals for our future

Outside of developed world and Middle East, Pakistan has one of the highest per capita consumption of wheat in the world

Published 22 Jul, 2019 06:28am

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Correct diagnosis; incorrect prescription

“Malnutrition costs Pakistan three percent ($7.6 billion) in GDP”, SBP quotes UN-FAO, in its quarterly report on the Sta

Published 18 Jul, 2019 06:36am

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WPI heating up

While the CPI inflation gets noticed more for obvious reasons, the oft-ignored Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is foretellin

Published 18 Jul, 2019 06:24am

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Tanking think-tanks

Congratulations! The federal government has reportedly approved project to establish a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Published 18 Jul, 2019 06:08am

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Mantras are nice, but common sense is nicer

At a press talk two weeks ago, the federal minister for Ministry of National Food Security & Research - flanked by t

Published 17 Jul, 2019 07:33am

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The future of Make in Pakistan

The Make in Pakistan thesis has been sold well. And following the currency depreciation along with changes in import tar

Published 17 Jul, 2019 07:10am

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Reko Diq: time to negotiate

If Reko Diq indeed stands on the remains of a volcano, then it is perhaps apt that the controversial mining project in t

Published 16 Jul, 2019 07:40am

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Of strikes and lockdowns

According to a latest poll by Gallup Pakistan, public opinion on the opposition’s plans to protest against the governmen

Published 16 Jul, 2019 07:16am

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Explaining falling farming growth

The sectoral share of agriculture sector in GDP has consistently been falling since independence. From over half of GDP

Published 16 Jul, 2019 07:00am

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Reviewing climate change

Pakistan stands fairly low on the carbon footprint scale relative to its peers in the region. However, as the monsoon ar

Published 16 Jul, 2019 06:46am

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Will the exports rise? (ever?)

If you are one for reading the “bigger picture”, Pakistan seems to be doing just fine in terms of trade balance. It is n

Published 15 Jul, 2019 06:41am

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Anatomy of cotton belt

Pakistan’s largest cash crop is grown in over half of the districts of the country, from Awaran in hinterlands of Baloch

Published 15 Jul, 2019 06:38am

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Lure of the long-shot

A few days ago, the Washington Post ran a feature cleverly titled “Random Man Runs for President” quite literally descri

Published 15 Jul, 2019 06:35am

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Fruits of fiscal Consolidation

Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Reading the perennial multilateral lender’s latest country report on Pakistan,

Published 15 Jul, 2019 06:32am

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SOEs & IMF’s conditionalities

When Leonard Cohen sang Everybody Knows, he probably didn’t have Pakistan’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in mind. But

Published 11 Jul, 2019 06:13am

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PBC’s ‘Make in Pakistan’ report card

It’s difficult to say whether or not Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has given a clean chit to PTI government. PBC’s len

Published 10 Jul, 2019 06:14am

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Cropping patterns in Punjab

It is difficult to separate noise from hard facts without data, except the tradition refuses to take root in Pakistan. J

Published 10 Jul, 2019 06:07am

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Economic assistance: China leads, US recedes

The recently-released yearbook on economic assistance serves yet another reminder that it is China – not the US – whose

Published 10 Jul, 2019 06:03am

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Reform needs strat.comm. managers

It’s the season of strikes. Traders in Karachi; APTMA; Faisalabad textile mill owners; Karachi transporters; and a few o

Published 09 Jul, 2019 06:14am

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Can Khan court Donald?

Is the US-Pakistan bilateral finally getting a break? Maybe yes, maybe not – just as Donald Trump likes to say. The prem

Published 09 Jul, 2019 05:29am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 24	278.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 24	278.25
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 24	154.89
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 24	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 24	1.24
Euro to USD / Apr 24	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 23	5070.55
Nasdaq / Apr 23	15696.64
Dow Jones / Apr 23	38503.69
India Sensex / Apr 24	73884
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 24	38460.08
Hang Seng / Apr 24	17176.31
FTSE 100 / Apr 24	8079.79
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 24	18202.76

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 23	21035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 23	213220
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 24	83.46
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 24	2319
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 24	81.26
Petrol/Litre / Apr 25	293.94

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 25 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 25 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 25 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 25 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 25 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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