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Aurangzeb tells Senate body: Govt eyes $2bn loan to boost reserves

ISLAMABAD: Amid expectation of borrowing $2 billion from commercial banks to shore up reserves to $14 billion by the...

Updated 13 Jun, 2025 09:25am

Power sector debt: Govt secures historic Rs1.275trn loan deal from banks

ISLAMABAD: After months of negotiations on term sheets and legal formalities, the government has finalized...

Updated 02 Jun, 2025 09:27am

Opinion

‘Unconstitutional’ windfall tax—II

Discriminatory without intelligible differentia [Points 7 & 8] The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Federation of...

Published 30 Mar, 2025 06:17am

Business & Finance

SBP has issued Rs27bn fresh banknotes so far

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has so far issued Rs 27 billion fresh banknotes of all denominations to...

Published 19 Mar, 2025 06:59am

Power sector: resolution of circular debt in sight

Government and commercial banks reportedly inching towards a viable deal on Rs 1.23 trillion loan to resolve power sector circular debt

Updated 15 Mar, 2025 02:56pm

Business & Finance

UBL absorbs Silk Bank after SBP approval

In a key development on the banking front, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has approved the amalgamation of Silk...

Updated 11 Mar, 2025 11:11pm

Editorials

Electricity conundrum

EDITORIAL: Reports appearing in media suggest that the government intends to secure a 1.25 trillion rupees loan from...

Published 11 Mar, 2025 05:35am

Markets

SBP governor urges banks to prioritise SME lending

Banks should shift focus from financing to govt, large corporate entities towards SME lending, micro financing, Jameel Ahmad says

Updated 25 Feb, 2025 11:27pm

Markets

Commercial banks borrow Rs9.61 trillion from SBP for 7 days

Commercial banks have borrowed Rs9.61 trillion from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) at an interest rate of 13.04%...

Updated 25 Jan, 2025 06:43am

BR Research

Imports under pressure

The import pressure is gradually increasing. There is no immediate strain on the currency per se, but demand is...

Published 22 Jan, 2025 07:58am

BR Research

Will the next inflationary cycle look different?

When the SBP autonomy bill was first presented in Parliament in March 2021, it met with resistance on multiple...

Published 11 Dec, 2024 09:02am

Budgetary support: Over Rs2trn borrowings cleared in just 5 months

KARACHI: In a positive turn on the economic front, borrowings by both the federal and provincial governments for...

Updated 11 Dec, 2024 09:18am

Banks urged to provide soft loans to KP SMEs

PESHAWAR: Business community urged commercial banks to provide soft loans for promotion of small and medium...

Updated 02 Dec, 2024 09:37am

BR Research

Credit concentration: identifying the worst offenders

Pakistan’s banking sector faces a systemic issue of credit concentration, where a significant portion of bank loans...

Updated 28 Nov, 2024 11:23am

Key requirement for conventional banks removed

Banks will now pay negotiated rates to corporate sector

Updated 27 Nov, 2024 04:00pm

Business & Finance

SBP makes key revisions to Minimum Profit Rate requirements, Islamic banking guidelines

In a major development for the banking sector, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday announced that the...

Updated 26 Nov, 2024 10:53pm

BR Research

SME financing: ‘he’s just not that into you!’

Consider the following: an entry-level tech worker in Silicon Valley can get a higher spending limit on credit cards...

Published 25 Nov, 2024 09:02am

BR Research

ADR financing: undermining monetary policy?

Commercial banks are on a lending spree—not due to excess liquidity or a dramatic economic turnaround, but because...

Published 12 Nov, 2024 08:41am

BR Research

FE-25 financing indicating imminent currency adjustment?

The currency market looks confused. Over the past twelve months, export financing – both pre- and post-shipment –...

Published 05 Jul, 2024 08:33am

Business & Finance

Forex reserves up $30.8m to $14.415bn: SBP

KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves increased by $ 30.8 million during the last week, ...

Published 21 Jun, 2024 06:37am

Business & Finance

Banks slow to limit coal financing: NGO

FRANKFURT, (Germany): Banks lent almost $470 billion to the coal industry between 2021 and 2023, according to a ...

Published 03 May, 2024 06:29am

BR Research

Rising textile NPLs: who is on the hook?

Not all commercial banks are created equals. And some are certainly better capitalized than others. As the economy...

Published 04 Apr, 2024 06:10am

Business & Finance

Forex decreases by $44m

KARACHI: The total liquid foreign reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SB) decreased by $44 million to...

Published 23 Feb, 2024 06:36am

Business & Finance

NBP’s profit surges by 72%, clocks in at Rs53.3bn in 2023

National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), one of the country’s largest commercial banks, registered a profit-after-tax (PAT)...

Published 22 Feb, 2024 02:48pm

Business & Finance

Kifaalat Programme: BISP launches new payment system of stipends thru six banks

ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has launched a new payment system, by increasing from two to six,...

Published 22 Feb, 2024 06:55am

Opinion

Protecting the common man: navigating street banking

In this age of information, fueled by electronic media reaching the very heart of our homes, even the “common...

Published 21 Feb, 2024 05:29am

Business & Finance

Forex reserves drop by $217m

KARACHI: The total liquid foreign reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) decreased by $ 217 million to $...

Published 24 Nov, 2023 05:29am

Business & Finance

Forex reserves down $79m

KARACHI: The country’s liquid foreign exchange reserves declined by $79 million to stand at $ 12.576 billion by ...

Published 03 Nov, 2023 06:11am

Opinion

Capacity payments conundrum

The matter of increased capacity payments to power plants has sparked a heated controversy. In recent years, these...

Updated 19 Oct, 2023 05:34am

Business & Finance

Both banknotes of Rs75 legal tender: SBP

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has clarified that under Section 25 of the State Bank of Pakistan Act,...

Published 13 Oct, 2023 05:50am

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 14	284.77
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 14	284.52
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 14	147.66
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 14	0.80
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 14	1.34
Euro to USD / Jul 14	1.17
UK LIBOR % / Jul 14	4.96

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S&P 500 / Jul 14	6,268.56
India Sensex / Jul 14	82,253.46
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 14	39,502.44
Nasdaq / Jul 14	20,640.33
Hang Seng / Jul 14	24,238.51
FTSE 100 / Jul 14	8,998.06
Dow Jones / Jul 14	44,459.65
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 14	24,160.64
France CAC40 / Jul 14	7,808.17

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 14	66.60
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 14	16,585
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 14	308,384
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 14	3,357.40
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 14	67.96
Petrol/Litre / Jul 15	266.79
Diesel/Litre / Jul 15	272.98

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