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current account deficit

Emerging economic stability

The balance of payments (BOP) for the first quarter Jul-Sep is encouraging for the stability of the economy. There...

Published 26 Oct, 2022 05:52am

Opinion

Understanding the forex market

The last few months have been a roller coaster for the Pakistani Rupee (PKR) and there is a lot of talk about market...

Published 23 Oct, 2022 03:21am

Business & Finance

External debt ‘devouring’ economy, says expert

KARACHI: The Financial and economic conditions of Pakistan are precarious, landing the country into a deep trouble,...

Published 23 Oct, 2022 03:21am

Business & Finance

Curbs on CKD imports: Govt may lose around Rs327bn in revenue, says IMC CEO

KARACHI: The government is expected to lose around Rs. 327 billion or $1.5 billion in revenue during the ongoing...

Published 13 Oct, 2022 05:59am

BR Research

Negative real rates: SBP risking macroprudence?

As expected, policy rate has been maintained at 15 percent. SBP expects average inflation to be higher than its...

Published 11 Oct, 2022 09:16am

Editorials

Trade deficit declines

EDITORIAL: The trade deficit for the first quarter 2022-23 registered negative 9.2 billion dollars against 11.7...

Published 06 Oct, 2022 05:59am

Opinion

Country headed for recession

As we had warned prior to the vote of no-confidence (VONC) in March 2022, the PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement)...

Updated 06 Oct, 2022 02:50am

Business & Finance

CAD shrinks 19pc in Jul-Aug

KARACHI: Current account deficit and balance of payment crisis are always been two big problems of Pakistan’s...

Published 02 Oct, 2022 05:48am

Opinion

Emerging economic trends

We have nearly full data for the first two months of the fiscal year. The level of expenditures, tax collections,...

Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am

Business & Finance

Pakistan & Scotland enter into B2B collaboration: FPCCI

KARACHI: Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, President FPCCI, has apprised the entire business, industry and trade community of the...

Published 28 Sep, 2022 05:51am

BR Research

CAD in control

The current account deficit is coming under control. This was expected. The transmission of tightening policies...

Published 27 Sep, 2022 08:56am

Editorials

A welcome decline in C/A deficit, indeed

EDITORIAL: The July-August 2022 current account (C/A) deficit shrank by 19 percent due to 240 million dollar lower...

Updated 27 Sep, 2022 12:31pm

Apparently on PM’s debt relief plea: Pakistan’s dollar bonds plunge

KARACHI: Pakistan’s dollar bond maturing in 2022 fell by 12 percent on Friday whereas dollar bond maturing in 2024...

Updated 24 Sep, 2022 10:12am

Jul-Aug CAD shrinks 19pc YoY

KARACHI: The country’s current account deficit shrank by 19 percent during the first two months of this fiscal year...

Updated 22 Sep, 2022 09:29am

Opinion

FY2022-23: Balance of payments

The continuing turmoil in the forex market is a bewildering experience with no parallel in the country’s history....

Published 21 Sep, 2022 05:57am

Business & Finance

Restrictions still in place for import of raw materials, says FPCCI

KARACHI: Acting President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Suleman Chawla has...

Published 15 Sep, 2022 05:57am

BR Research

Economy in a shambles

The foremost and immediate concern of both SBP and MoF is to control imports and to bridge the gap between imports...

Published 13 Sep, 2022 09:00am

Opinion

Shocks and Pakistan’s economy

‘We are living in a time of overlapping emergencies: the pandemic is not over, climate change is a reality, and...

Published 09 Sep, 2022 06:09am

Business & Finance

Turkey sees inflation at 65pc at 2022 end, C/A deficit at $47.3bn

ISTANBUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Turkey expects inflation to ease to 65% by the end of the year from nearly 80% in July,...

Published 05 Sep, 2022 07:34am

Business & Finance

IMF urges bilateral creditors to maintain exposure to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged all key bilateral creditors to maintain their exposure to...

Updated 03 Sep, 2022 12:31pm

Opinion

A drifting economy

It is quite distressful to see the nascent economic recovery ceding way to the same uncertainty and drift that...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 05:50am

Opinion

A fragile BoP

The statistics on the balance of payments (BoP) of Pakistan have been released recently by the State Bank of ...

Published 30 Aug, 2022 06:21am

BR Research

Floods 2022 - initial economic assessment

Floods in 2022 are sending havoc in the country. It's a significant humanitarian loss, and it's not appropriate to...

Published 29 Aug, 2022 08:39am

Opinion

Pakistan – a perennial Fund borrower

Twenty-third International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, on average three year per programme, in our 75 years of...

Updated 29 Aug, 2022 02:46pm

Pakistan

Flash floods: Bilawal hopes financial institutions to take economic fallout into account

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs financial help to deal with “overwhelming” floods, its foreign minister said on Sunday,...

Updated 29 Aug, 2022 09:47am

Editorials

Current account deficit

EDITORIAL: The government has succeeded in containing the current account deficit to 1.2 billion dollars in July...

Published 29 Aug, 2022 05:44am

Pakistan

Recent floods to adversely affect Kharif crops, warns Pakistan's finance ministry

In its 'Monthly Economic Update & Outlook for August', Economic Adviser’s Wing says assessment of damages is in progress by provinces

Updated 25 Aug, 2022 07:11pm

Pakistan

Pakistan's current account deficit shrinks massively to $1.21bn in July

Registers 45% decline month-on-month after clocking in at revised $2.2 billion in June

Updated 24 Aug, 2022 12:11pm

Miftah again explains why import ban was lifted

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, Saturday, stated that to comply with international obligations, the...

Updated 21 Aug, 2022 09:19am

Markets

The state of country’s economy discussed at PSX

KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) hosted a meeting where the top management of PSX including Chairperson PSX,...

Published 20 Aug, 2022 03:41am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 26	278.58
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 26	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 26	156.17
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 26	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 26	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 26	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 25	5048.42
Nasdaq / Apr 25	15611.76
Dow Jones / Apr 25	38085.80
India Sensex / Apr 26	74171.68
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 26	37934.72
Hang Seng / Apr 26	17626.75
FTSE 100 / Apr 26	8123.98
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 26	18016.27

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 25	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 25	240900
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 26	83.89
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 26	2336.33
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 26	81.15
Petrol/Litre / Apr 27	293.94

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 27 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 27 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 27 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 27 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 27 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 27 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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