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Budget FY25: a sure recipe for stagflation?

The Federal Budget 2024-2025, in our opinion, is a simple recipe for stagflation: persistent high inflation combined...

Updated 15 Jun, 2024 07:26am

Business & Finance

Economy showing signs of improvement: Tarar

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said on Monday that the country’s...

Published 04 Jun, 2024 06:28am

Opinion

A social democratic, green, mission-oriented budget

In contrast to the usual approach to a budget discourse based on ideas around raising taxes, and expenditure...

Updated 31 May, 2024 07:33am

Editorials

State of the economy

EDITORIAL: The Monthly Economic Update and Outlook for May 2024 was uploaded on the Finance Division website on 29...

Updated 31 May, 2024 07:26am

Business & Finance

Solangi for increasing taxes on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: Former caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi said there is urgent need to...

Published 23 May, 2024 05:16am

Opinion

From IMF to IT

Digital revolution. E-commerce. On line expansion. Artificial intelligence. This is what the world has been talking...

Updated 22 May, 2024 06:17am

Business & Finance

Budget 2024-25: PBC for documenting economy as per Indian model

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has strongly proposed Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb to implement...

Published 21 May, 2024 03:39am

Editorials

Informal economy

EDITORIAL: The size of Pakistan’s informal sector has been a cause for much consternation for our policymakers as...

Published 21 May, 2024 03:39am

Editorials

State of the economy

EDITORIAL: The government reduced prices of petroleum and products significantly effective 16 May till the end of...

Updated 20 May, 2024 06:12am

Business & Finance

PTBA for digitalisation, documentation of economy

KARACHI: Pakistan Tax Bar Association (PTBA) has emphasised the need for the digitalisation and documentation of the...

Published 17 May, 2024 05:50am

Opinion

An anti-citizen policy?

Governments are supposed to make people-friendly and welfare-oriented policies. Citizens should not be just tax...

Published 14 May, 2024 05:18am

Business & Finance

Uzbek FM calls on Zardari ‘Need to enhance bilateral cooperation in various sectors’

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said that there is a need to further enhance bilateral cooperation with...

Published 10 May, 2024 04:17am

Business & Finance

BMP against harmful actions to national economy, people

LAHORE: The private sector leadership under the banner of Pakistan Businessmen Panel has always stood firm and ...

Published 04 May, 2024 05:48am

Pakistan

Minister stresses safety of coal miners

KARACHI: Provincial Minister for Energy, Planning and Development Syed Nasir Hussain Shah while talking to various...

Published 02 May, 2024 04:58am

Opinion

Ending hopium—lV

Our unsustainable economy is challenging our survival and requires measures by Ministry of Federal Education and...

Published 30 Apr, 2024 03:43am

BR Research

Rate cut: the virtues of patience

If Pakistan were a person, it would have probably been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Few trips to Gulf capitals;...

Published 29 Apr, 2024 07:50am

Business & Finance

Germany nudges up growth forecast, ailing economy at ‘turning point’

FRANKFURT: The German government slightly increased its 2024 growth forecast Wednesday, saying there were signs...

Published 29 Apr, 2024 04:49am

Opinion

It’s all about the economy

Karachi, being Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial centre and home to 90 percent of the multinational...

Updated 27 Apr, 2024 05:28am

Opinion

SOEs: performance & accountability

The World Bank’s recent report, titled ‘Pakistan Development Update, fiscal impact of Federal State-Owned...

Published 26 Apr, 2024 04:15am

Opinion

Persistent decline of manufacturing sector

The latest monthly data for February 2024 on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released recently by...

Published 23 Apr, 2024 03:41am

Business & Finance

ME tension poses a risk to recovery of global economy: PBIF

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum ...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 05:07am

Perspectives

Global events and effects on Pakistan’s inflation

When the Muslim world was celebrating Eid, global capital markets were shaken, and aftershocks expected. Although...

Published 17 Apr, 2024 03:45pm

Opinion

Ending hopium—I

Is it time to implement manifestos, return to the drawing board under the shadow of a national government, maintain...

Updated 18 Apr, 2024 09:23pm

Pakistan

Minister urges private sector to explore new opportunities

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Privatization, Board of Investment and Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has said that...

Published 16 Apr, 2024 03:38am

Economy showing positive signs, claims govt

Attaullah Tarar says govt determined to resolve problems faced by the country and concrete measures are being taken to improve the national economy.

Updated 07 Apr, 2024 07:09pm

Economic recovery govt’s top priority: Tarar

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ataullah Tarar said on Saturday that recovery of the...

Updated 31 Mar, 2024 10:51pm

Business & Finance

Attacks on foreign experts termed attacks on economy

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum...

Published 30 Mar, 2024 08:17am

Business & Finance

Experts stress less reliance on IMF

KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar here stressed the importance of Islamic financial system, IT and agriculture sectors...

Published 30 Mar, 2024 08:09am

Pakistan

‘Bandits become threat to economy’

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum...

Published 27 Mar, 2024 04:38am

Editorials

Bringing traders into the tax net

EDITORIAL: Successive governments in Pakistan have tried and failed to bring the country’s traders and retailers...

Updated 27 Mar, 2024 05:07am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 14	278.71
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 14	278.51
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 14	157.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 14	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 14	1.28
Euro to USD / Jun 14	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 14	5,431.60
India Sensex / Jun 14	76,992.77
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 14	38,814.56
Nasdaq / Jun 14	17,688.88
Hang Seng / Jun 14	17,941.78
FTSE 100 / Jun 14	8,146.86
Dow Jones / Jun 14	38,589.16
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 14	18,002.02

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 14	78.45
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 14	19,935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 14	207,047
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 14	2,333.04
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 14	72.14
Petrol/Litre / Jun 16	258.16

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

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

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

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

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