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Egypt has strategic sugar reserves to last until April

CAIRO: Egypt's strategic sugar reserves are enough to last up to the start of April, the supply ministry said on Monday.

Published 08 Oct, 2018 12:05pm

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Egypt strategic wheat reserves to last until February

CAIRO: Egypt has sufficient strategic wheat reserves to last until the end of the first week of February, the supply min

Published 08 Oct, 2018 11:44am

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Morocco to suspend soft wheat customs duty on Nov. 1

MARRAKESH: Morocco will cancel customs duty on soft wheat on November 1 to ensure regular supply, the agriculture minist

Published 02 Oct, 2018 01:40pm

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Ivory Coast raises cocoa farm price to 750 CFA francs per kg

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower, raised the guaranteed price it pays farmers to 750 CFA francs ($1.34

Published 01 Oct, 2018 01:53pm

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Argentinian rice offered lowest at Iraq purchasing tender

DUBAI: The lowest offer in the international tender from Iraq's state grains buyer to purchase at least 30,000 tonnes of

Published 01 Oct, 2018 10:35am

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Iraq aims to boost light crude exports to 1 million bpd in 2019

BAGHDAD: Iraq plans to increase the production and exports of light crude oil to 1 million barrels per day in 2019,

Published 30 Sep, 2018 11:14pm

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Ivory Coast 2018/19 farmgate cocoa price expected at 750 CFA francs

ABIDJAN: Top grower Ivory Coast is expected to set a guaranteed price of 750 CFA francs ($1.35) per kilogramme to cocoa

Published 27 Sep, 2018 02:29pm

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Iraq buys 100,000 T wheat, 90,000 T rice in direct deals

BAGHDAD: Iraq's trade ministry said on Wednesday it bought 100,000 tonnes of wheat and 90,000 tonnes of rice in direct d

Published 26 Sep, 2018 02:24pm

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Ghana's cocoa output to reach 1mn tonnes and more in a few years

ACCRA: Ghana's cocobod regulator expects the country's annual cocoa output to rise to 1 million tonnes and more in a few

Published 26 Sep, 2018 11:48am

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Egypt's GASC receives offers at vegetable oil tender

CAIRO: An Egyptian state purchase tender for soyoil drew a lowest offer of $699.21 per tonne for 30,000 tonnes, trad

Published 25 Sep, 2018 11:44am

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Canadian wheat lowest offered in Iraq tender

DUBAI: The lowest offer made at Iraq's international wheat purchase tender was at $337 a tonne cost, insurance and freig

Published 23 Sep, 2018 01:33pm

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Egypt's GASC buys 180,000 T and 295,000 T wheat shipments

CAIRO: Egypt's state grains buyer GASC has bought 180,000 tonnes of wheat for shipment over Nov. 1-10 and a further 295,

Published 18 Sep, 2018 07:21pm

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Egypt's GASC seeks wheat for Nov. 1-10, Nov. 11-20 shipment

CAIRO: Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) set tenders on Monday to buy an unspecified amount of whe

Published 17 Sep, 2018 08:04pm

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Iraq seeking 50,000 tonnes of wheat in tender

BAGHDAD: Iraq's trade ministry is seeking at least 50,000 tonnes of wheat in an international purchasing tender, ministr

Published 13 Sep, 2018 08:04pm

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Ghana's cocoa purchases reach 870,000 tonnes as season closes

ACCRA: Cocoa purchases declared to Ghana's Cocobod reached 870,000 tonnes in the 2017-18 crop year which ends on Thursda

Published 13 Sep, 2018 07:42pm

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Ghana agrees with Ivory Coast to announce bean prices at start of cocoa season

ACCRA: Ghana and Ivory Coast have agreed to coordinate the announcement of bean prices with the opening of cocoa season,

Published 12 Sep, 2018 08:37pm

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Egypt sets buying price for local rice paddy

CAIRO: Egypt will pay its farmers 4,400-4,700 Egyptian pounds ($246.22-$263) a tonne for rice paddy, an unprocessed form

Published 03 Sep, 2018 09:39pm

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Syrian state importer seeks 200,000 tonnes of wheat in tender

BEIRUT: Syria's state grains agency, the General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob), has issued

Published 30 Aug, 2018 01:27pm

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Egypt's GASC buys 350,000 tonnes of wheat in tender

CAIRO: Egypt's state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Tuesday that it has boug

Published 28 Aug, 2018 08:34pm

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Truck explodes at Glencore oilfield in Chad, production suspended

N'DJAMENA: A truck caught fire and exploded on Sunday at Glencore's Mangara oilfield in Chad, forcing production to be s

Published 28 Aug, 2018 07:29pm

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Egypt's GASC says seeking soyoil, sunflower oil in tender

DUBAI: Egypt's state buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Sunday it was seeking soyoil an

Published 26 Aug, 2018 07:52pm

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Iraq buys 300,000 tonnes wheat from US and Canada

DUBAI/HAMBURG: Iraq's state grains board said on Thursday it had purchased a total of 300,000 tonnes of wheat to be

Published 16 Aug, 2018 03:46pm

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South Africa hikes sugar import duties to protect local industry

CAPE TOWN: South Africa has raised import duties on sugar to $680 from $566 a tonne to protect the domestic industry aga

Published 15 Aug, 2018 01:56pm

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Kenya's tea output jumps 14pc in the first half of the year

NAIROBI: Kenya's tea production jumped by 14 percent in the first six months of this year to 230.99 mln kg from the same

Published 09 Aug, 2018 02:09pm

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Ivory Coast cocoa crop developing well but more rain needed, say farmers

ABIDJAN: Top grower Ivory Coast's cocoa crop is developing well but rainfall was below average last week and needs to pi

Published 06 Aug, 2018 02:33pm

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Egypt's GASC seeking soyoil, sunflower oil in tender

DUBAI: Egypt's state buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Sunday it was seeking soyoil an

Published 05 Aug, 2018 12:32pm

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Egypt strategic wheat reserves at 4 months

CAIRO: Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, has reserves of the grain sufficient to cover the country's needs for

Published 03 Aug, 2018 12:20pm

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Iraq buys 50,000 tonnes wheat from Australia in tender

HAMBURG/DUBAI: Iraq's state grains board is said to have purchased about 50,000 tonnes of Australian wheat in a tender w

Published 02 Aug, 2018 03:17pm

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Exposure to debt-stricken cocoa exporter rocks Ivory Coast banks

ABIDJAN: Heavy debt exposure to Ivory Coast's largest domestic cocoa exporter, which has been ordered into liquidation,

Published 31 Jul, 2018 01:25pm

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Iraq wheat purchase tender's lowest offer at $321.77 a tonne

DUBAI: The lowest offer made at Iraq's international wheat purchase tender was at $321.77 a tonne cost, insurance and fr

Published 29 Jul, 2018 11:47am

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 13	276.80 ▼ -0.01
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 13	276.60 ▼ -0.01
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 13	159.71 ▼ -0.21
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 13	0.84 ▲ 0.003
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 13	1.32 ▼ -0.0022
Euro to USD / Nov 13	1.10 ▼ -0.0036
SOFR % / Nov 12	3.90 ▲ 0.01

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 13	7,561.67
India Sensex / Nov 13	81,592.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 13	61,142.35
Nasdaq / Nov 13	25,136.27
Hang Seng / Nov 13	23,637.60
FTSE 100 / Nov 13	10,902.56
Dow Jones / Nov 13	52,347.55
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 13	26,749.95
France CAC40 / Nov 13	8,368.91

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 14	330
Diesel/Litre / Nov 14	360
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 13	88.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 13	18,080
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 13	352,911
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 13	3,884.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 13	82.61

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	6.07 ▲ 1 (19.72%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 13 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	8.77 ▲ 1 (12.87%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	2.64 ▲ 0.28 (11.86%)
Shabbir Tiles / Nov 13 Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Limited(STCL)	10.10 ▲ 1 (10.99%)
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	1.38 ▲ 0.13 (10.4%)
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Nov 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	12.06 ▲ 1.1 (10.04%)
Unicap Modaraba / Nov 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	22.84 ▲ 2.08 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Nov 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	82.90 ▲ 7.54 (10.01%)
Ningbo Green Light / Nov 13 Ningbo Green Light Energy Limited(NGLEL)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)
Zuma Resources / Nov 13 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	33.75 ▲ 3.07 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Arpak Int. / Nov 13 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	124.84 ▼ -13.87 (-10%)
First AL-Noor Mod. / Nov 13 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	12.64 ▼ -1.36 (-9.71%)
Shadman Cotton / Nov 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	69.87 ▼ -6.73 (-8.79%)
Fateh Sports / Nov 13 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	193.60 ▼ -16.58 (-7.89%)
Asim Textile / Nov 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	62.73 ▼ -4.34 (-6.47%)
D.M. Corporation / Nov 13 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	151.06 ▼ -9.64 (-6%)
Bhanero Textile / Nov 13 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	1,207.41 ▼ -76.42 (-5.95%)
Hira Textile / Nov 13 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4.01 ▼ -0.24 (-5.65%)
J.A.Textile / Nov 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	73.72 ▼ -4.26 (-5.46%)
AN Textile Mills / Nov 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	58.55 ▼ -3.21 (-5.2%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	303,195,710 ▲ 0.13
Kohinoor Spinning / Nov 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	59,505,118 ▲ 0.34
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	46,791,082 ▲ 0.28
Dost Steels Ltd. / Nov 13 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	43,180,738 ▲ 0.37
TPL Properties / Nov 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	32,746,701 ▲ 0.48
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Nov 13 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	27,571,943 ▲ 0.05
F. Nat.Equities / Nov 13 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	24,996,122 ▲ 0.01
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	24,965,743 ▲ 1
Cnergyico PK / Nov 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	22,527,745 ▲ 0.14
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 13 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	21,467,835 ▲ 0.82

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