Business Recorder

KARACHI: The weather report on Tuesday (August 11, 2020) and the forecast for Wednesday (August 12, 2020)....

KARACHI: Pakistan's fruits & vegetables exports have witnessed a healthy growth during the last fiscal year...

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party Chief Mustafa Kamal has said that Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has...

ISLAMABAD: The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has significantly declined in the federal capital but gross...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday sought "|positive" suggestions from the opposition to...

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued contempt notices to Federal Minister of State for ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday strongly condemned the extra-judicial killings of three Kashmiri labourers from...

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its meeting held on Monday discussed about spending Rs 110 million...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar on Tuesday, while appreciating the masses for promptly responding...

ISLAMABAD: President Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) chapter Chaudhry Latif Akbar has...

ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of the terminated daily wage employees of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) continued their...

WASHINGTON: The United States is counting on further military withdrawal from Afghanistan to potentially fewer than...

KARACHI: Pemra has issued the first Teleport License of Pakistan to TeleNest (SMC) Pvt Ltd. A ceremony was held at...

ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President,...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education, Vocational Training, National History and Literary...

ISLAMABAD: Telenor Pakistan has collaborated with NUST Business School to train students on design thinking skills,...

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the commissioner of Karachi to continue operation against billboards...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has postponed his media briefing twice in 24 hours, which led to...

KARACHI: Bahria Town Karachi reopened Bahria Adventure Land theme park, Danzoo, Double Decker bus tour and Carnival....

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday expressed his frustration over...

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that eight more patients lost their lives lifting the...

LAHORE: Expressing reservations over inaptness of the government, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice ...

LAHORE: Like the mythological phoenix, the dying Ravi River is set to rise from its remains and give birth to a new...

KARACHI: National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NiFT), one of the largest payment processors in Pakistan,...

LAHORE: The Punjab Provincial Development Working Party approved four development schemes of various sectors with an...

LAHORE: Terming overcoming corona as a big achievement of the government, Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on...

LAHORE: Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has announced opening of the sacred Christian site Mariamabad for...

ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court on Tuesday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 14 days physical...

KARACHI: All timings are in PST (Pakistan Standard Time).

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KARACHI: President of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Mian Anjum Nisar, has urged...

WASHINGTON: Goods imported from Hong Kong must be marked "Made in China" to be sold in the United States as part of...

ISLAMABAD: The Board of Investment (BOI) will present a roadmap in collaboration with the World Bank for reduction ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Afghanistan transit and bilateral trade have faced several challenges amid Covid-19 including...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will announce its reserved judgment on Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC)...

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and all banks will remain closed on Friday (August 14) on the occasion of...

LAHORE: Several people were injured after a violent clash between police and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is all set to lift ban on import of live animals, meat and meat products with ...

KARACHI: The sale of cars has been declined by eight percent in July to 11,501 units.

Indus Motor Company (IMC) and...

KARACHI: Famous Urdu poet Rahat Indori died of a heart attack at a hospital in Indore, India, on Tuesday while being...

TEHRAN: Iran said Tuesday it has jailed two men over spying for Britain, Germany and Israel, the latest in a string...

ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to extend a funding of $ 125 million to PIA-IL to pay for severance of employees...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has been moved against the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judgment to dismiss a petition...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States on Tuesday held deliberations on the bilateral relations, its current...

ISLAMABAD: Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) has confirmed the B3 long-term local-currency and Caa1...

ISLAMABAD: Top military brass on Tuesday lauded the progress on the Afghan reconciliation process and hoped for ...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday declared Russia the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, but...

KARACHI: K-Electric (KE) is pleased to announce the successful closure of its PKR 25 billion Sukuk which is the...

KARACHI: Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered the audit of K-Electric (KE) and sought the complete timeline...

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German energy company Uniper, a financier of the disputed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, warned that the...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has expanded Pakistan Single Window project to the entire country to...

ISLAMABAD: After weeks of wrangling, the government and the opposition Tuesday reached a consensus on two key...

ISLAMABAD: Export responses to real exchange rate (RER) depreciations in Pakistan are lower than those to...

ISLAMABAD: Finance Ministry has reportedly "accepted" conditions of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for issuance of...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Advisor on Finance and Revenue, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has convened a meeting of the...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz has said that despite an economic slowdown...

• (The board) may simply act as a smokescreen behind which Facebook's executives will maintain ultimate control over its content moderation decision-making process.
• The members said the board's powers, as defined by its charter, limit it to merely enforcing current content policies the company has adopted.

• Gold on track for worst day since June 2013.
• Silver plunges 13.8%, biggest daily decline since Oct. 2008.
• US PPI rebounded more than expected in July.
• Gold is down over $100 since Monday's close.

• Market moves were muted ahead of a monthly US Department of Agriculture supply-demand report due on Wednesday.
• CBOT December corn ended up 1/2 cent at $3.23-1/2 per bushel after touching a one-week high earlier in the session.

• The Russian news certainly spurred another 'risk on' session overnight.
• "All these things are allowing this 'risk on' sentiment to continue," di Galoma said.
• The yield curve between two-year and 10-year notes steepened five basis points to 49 basis points.

• The most active CBOT soft red winter wheat contract gained 4 cents to close at $4.95 per bushel.
• The United States faces stiff competition for export business from Russia, traders said.