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Shifting sands overseas

These are not boring times.

Published 19 Jan, 2017 08:36am

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PPL - positive prospects outweigh negativities

Finally, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PSX: PPL) announced itsFY16 financial performance, and to no ones surprise, the oil and gas exploration and production company posted a decline in earnings for the year bitten largely by low crude oil prices.

Published 19 Jan, 2017 08:35am

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Textile machinery: A look forward

Continuing our conversation on textile machinery imports (see yesterdays column), todays article looks at some underlying issues that have gone unsaid.

Published 19 Jan, 2017 08:34am

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Gwadar: Look and feel

Gwadar is happening.

Updated 13 Oct, 2017 10:57am

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Reviewing cement exports

The cement industry is chugging forward into a bonanza of historic high dispatches, gross margins and profits, in spite of the sharp fall in exports to its key markets such as Afghanistan and South Africa.

Published 18 Jan, 2017 06:57am

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FDI 1HFY17: A ray of hope?

Fetching foreign direct investment has become arduous for Pakistan, and the slithering numbers month over month are a clear evidence of that.

Published 18 Jan, 2017 06:49am

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Textile machinery imports: A look back

With the sales tax on textile machinery imports abolished in the export package, one may now hope that the latest technology and BMR activities come to our industry.

Published 18 Jan, 2017 06:46am

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Charter of CPEC

There is little denying that historians will remember CPEC as one of best things that ever happened to Pakistan, provided of course this country does not deliberately goof up.

Published 17 Jan, 2017 07:38am

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Of petroleum and fertiliser prices

For the first time in over three years, the government revised petroleum products prices mid of the month.

Published 17 Jan, 2017 07:37am

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New tariff for Thar coal projects

The upfront Thar coal power tariff will expire on 19 January, 2017 with the regulator deciding against extending it.

Published 17 Jan, 2017 07:36am

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Gold: What's in store for 2017

Before getting into what the current year holds for gold, lets review gold market in 2016.

Published 17 Jan, 2017 07:36am

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CPEC: Waiting for Ba Tie Bao

What would really forge the relationship between two countries that already refer to each other as iron brothers (or ba tie in mandarin)? A steel plant! Even better, a massive steel plant in the middle of nowhere! This is where things seem to be headed if

Published 16 Jan, 2017 07:44am

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Cement: Setting new year resolutions

There was still no reprieve from exports, as the cement industry wrapped up the year 2016 with a drop in total dispatches in Dec from Nov (2.

Published 16 Jan, 2017 07:42am

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Confusion grips the market

After a surge during the first week of the new year, the benchmark KSE-100 index only went up 0.

Published 16 Jan, 2017 07:41am

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Oil prices off the hook?

Looking at the graph, it seems that the bad days are over for oil producers and oil and gas investment worldwide.

Published 16 Jan, 2017 07:40am

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Telcos and taxes

In support of a wider ICT uptake, this column has been a strong proponent for reducing taxes (WHT and FED) on cellular and broadband services.

Published 13 Jan, 2017 08:35am

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Export package: What's in it for leather?

With so much buzz surrounding textile and the latest package, its easy to forget that it wasnt for textile only; the Rs180 billion package is actually for all five export-oriented sectors: textile, leather, surgical goods, carpets, and sports goods.

Published 13 Jan, 2017 08:28am

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Competition, a catalyst for growth: Autos

This column has at different points discussed the many virtues of greater competition in the auto sector; one that has long enjoyed protectionnot only from imports with tariffs exceeding 70 percent but also to a great extent from new players entering the

Published 13 Jan, 2017 08:16am

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Textile package: Garment is the key!

It was long due; finally, the PM's focus is on dwindling exports.

Published 12 Jan, 2017 09:40am

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Autos: Tepid half-year; but don't despair.

The auto sector wrapped up half year sales with 122,347 units for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and tractors, a 3.

Published 12 Jan, 2017 09:36am

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Remittances under duress?

Remittances have also joined the worries; along with the already falling exports and declining FDI, the inflows from Pakistanis abroad - that the country has for long relied upon - are have started weakening as well.

Published 12 Jan, 2017 09:33am

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Cotton imports open!

With the announcement of the export package yesterday now comes duty free import of cotton something that the yarn manufacturers have been demanding for quite some time, particularly in light of another season of low cotton production.

Published 12 Jan, 2017 09:31am

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Fertilizer subsidies need better targeting

In a surprise move, the federal government withdrew subsidies on urea and DAP fertilizer with immediate effect.

Published 11 Jan, 2017 10:11am

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CPEC's raison d'etre

The hype, the hopes and expectations from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor is growing by the day.

Updated 23 Feb, 2018 06:47am

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Opening up power transmission

There have been a couple of important draft guidelines published by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) recently including the those for competitive bidding as well as the concept paper on the rate of return for power sector projects.

Published 11 Jan, 2017 10:10am

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What does it take to build a brand?

The conversation on exports (at least in this column) has been approached from multiple angles the need for research, innovation, diversification, etc.

Published 11 Jan, 2017 10:09am

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Going cashless: Can demonetization help?

Smart politicians have a way of framing crisis to their advantage.

Published 10 Jan, 2017 10:03am

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Targeting electricity subsidies

All the focus these days is on power generation, and somewhat rightly so, for the acute shortage has long been a bane.

Published 10 Jan, 2017 10:02am

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Innovation and productivity: thinking beyond costs

Thanks to low labour costs, Pakistan is one of the most price competitive T-shirt producers of the South Asian region; yet the country has been facing low export growth for many years.

Updated 17 Apr, 2019 06:55am

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Energy sector - a few good steps

Globally, the oil and gas sector was marked with OPECs return in 2016, after it let the market forces play with the demand and supply for at least two years; with flagging prices, the cartel surprised many with the first cut in production since 2008.

Published 10 Jan, 2017 10:01am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 19	278.45
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 19	278.15
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 19	154.37
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 19	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 19	1.24
Euro to USD / Apr 19	1.06

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 18	5011.12
Nasdaq / Apr 18	15601.50
Dow Jones / Apr 18	37775.38
India Sensex / Apr 19	72222.48
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 19	37068.35
Hang Seng / Apr 19	16205.02
FTSE 100 / Apr 19	7834.89
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 19	17717.67

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 18	21735
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 18	214077
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 19	84.27
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 19	2382.04
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 19	80.67
Petrol/Litre / Apr 20	293.94

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 20 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 20 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 20 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 20 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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