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Rising Sensitive Price Index: sensitive matter

EDITORIAL: The year-on-year (YoY) increase in the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) remained worryingly high at 29.65...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Markets

Expert explains how hike in power tariffs hurting people

KARACHI: Extraordinary increase in the electricity charges has become a menace for the common man and industry, ...

Published 23 Oct, 2023 05:58am

FPA, QTA in electricity bills: SC sets aside LHC verdict

Declares Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) and Quarter Tariff Adjustment (QTA) in electricity bills as illegal and without lawful authority

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 09:35am

‘Inflated’ bills: Intelligence agency comes to the rescue of power consumers?

Agency has prompted caretaker government to intervene and take action to provide immediate relief

Updated 10 Oct, 2023 12:40pm

‘FPA, QTA in power bills’: SC issues notices to AGP, respondents

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court issued notice to the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) and respondents in petitions...

Updated 04 Oct, 2023 08:34am

‘Unholy’ pacts with IPPs must be reviewed: Senate panel

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat recommended that there is an essential need to...

Updated 28 Sep, 2023 10:08am

Business & Finance

Industrialist underscores need for reducing electricity losses

LAHORE: Chairman Kattar Band Road Industrial Association and former vice president of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and...

Published 28 Sep, 2023 05:33am

Editorials

Household debt cycle

EDITORIAL: One of the enduring lessons of economic downturns is that they run households, especially middle- and...

Published 23 Sep, 2023 05:58am

Closed industrial units: Minister advocates payment of power bills in instalments

Caretaker Minister for Commerce and Industry says there are one million unemployed across the country due to the closure of industrial units

Updated 23 Sep, 2023 08:45pm

Opinion

Moving from failure to failure successfully?

Winston Churchill said, ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm’....

Published 18 Sep, 2023 07:14am

Pakistan

AJK PM resolves to raise voice for rights of people at every forum

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, while reiterating his commitment to serve...

Published 17 Sep, 2023 06:05am

Opinion

Govt as the biggest power defaulter

The media is replete with news of the Power Sector – mostly negative. Most recently, it is the exorbitant bills...

Updated 17 Sep, 2023 06:37am

Markets

Nepra grills CEOs of Discos for inflated electricity bills

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday grilled Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)...

Updated 13 Sep, 2023 09:12am

Business & Finance

‘High power cost damages industry, SMEs badly’

KARACHI: Increased cost of electricity is quite painful and it has damaged the industry, SMEs and the household...

Published 12 Sep, 2023 06:22am

Aug electricity bills: Consumers hit by Rs7.64 to Rs15 per unit hike: PD

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has revealed that domestic and commercial consumers have been hit by Rs 7.64 to Rs....

Updated 12 Sep, 2023 09:34am

Opinion

The energy quagmire

When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. ‘Increase electricity consumption to lower the...

Published 11 Sep, 2023 07:00am

Opinion

Failure of power sector: stop the blame game

It was only recently that the Senate Standing Committee on Power on unbraided the top brass of Power Division for...

Published 10 Sep, 2023 03:20am

Opinion

Bills: repenting for the sins of others

Jolted by the severe backlash against highly inflated power bills resulting in protests across the country joined by...

Published 09 Sep, 2023 06:20am

FCA mechanism: DISCOs’ July tariff raised by Rs1.46 per unit

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has increased tariff of power Distribution...

Updated 09 Sep, 2023 08:44am

BR Research

Electricity: Use more, not less

The crackdown season is in full swing – from exchange companies hoarding dollars to those hoarding sugar, and...

Published 08 Sep, 2023 08:43am

Markets

Further hike in power tariff: Traders staging protest demo outside Nepra office today

KARACHI: In response to a contentious proposal for yet another increase in the electricity prices, traders are...

Published 08 Sep, 2023 06:01am

Business & Finance

Governor apprises minister about KCCI concerns on energy issues

ISLAMABAD: Governor Sindh, Kamran Tessori on Thursday called on caretaker Federal Minister for Energy Muhammad Ali...

Published 08 Sep, 2023 06:01am

Govt to tighten the noose around power thieves

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to launch crackdown across the country against electricity theft,...

Updated 07 Sep, 2023 09:17am

Editorials

A little light at the end of the tunnel?

EDITORIAL: A visible intent of the stakeholders to deal with smuggling and endemic corruption recently shared during...

Published 07 Sep, 2023 06:21am

Opinion

Energy efficiency in buildings

During the last week of August 2023, people were taken aback when they received their electricity bills. Even those...

Updated 06 Sep, 2023 11:01am

Inflated electricity bills: Senate body assails Power Div for ‘incompetence’

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Power on Tuesday scolded the top brass of Power Division for shifting burden...

Updated 06 Sep, 2023 09:45am

Opinion

Have the people risen?

Arriving on the back of backbreaking inflation across the board, the increased tariff in electricity bills has ...

Updated 05 Sep, 2023 07:12am

‘Inflated’ power bills: Obdurate IMF refuses to buy into govt data

Conveys its disagreement to the data provided by the federal government

Updated 05 Sep, 2023 10:03am

Provinces, LEAs to be taken on board: PM asks power sector to act against defaulters

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar has asked the power sector to take immediate action against...

Updated 05 Sep, 2023 09:59am

Gallup Survey: Default seems imminent, say businesses

KARACHI: Majority of Pakistan’s businesses are “not hopeful at all” about the ability of caretaker Prime Minister...

Updated 05 Sep, 2023 09:12am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Haseeb Waqas / Nov 30 Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills Limited(HWQS)	10.38 ▲ 1.00 (10.66%)
Bela Auto / Nov 30 Bela Automotives Limited(BELA)	8.79 ▲ 0.81 (10.15%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 30 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	2.70 ▲ 0.21 (8.43%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Nov 30 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	6.50 ▲ 0.46 (7.62%)
Bannu Woollen / Nov 30 Bannu Woollen Mills Limited(BNWM)	30.21 ▲ 2.11 (7.51%)
Chashma / Nov 30 Chashma Sugar Mills Limited(CHAS)	65.58 ▲ 4.58 (7.51%)
Crescent Steel / Nov 30 Crescent Steel & Allied Products Limited(CSAP)	43.53 ▲ 3.04 (7.51%)
IBL HealthCare / Nov 30 IBL HealthCare Limited(IBLHL)	39.95 ▲ 2.79 (7.51%)
Atlas Honda Ltd / Nov 30 Atlas Honda Limited(ATLH)	373.27 ▲ 26.04 (7.50%)
MithchellsFruit / Nov 30 Mitchells Fruit Farms Limited(MFFL)	245.32 ▲ 17.12 (7.50%)

Stock	Price
Nazir Cotton Mills / Nov 30 Nazir Cotton Mills Limited(NCML)	3.07 ▼ -0.83 (-21.28%)
Trust Mod. / Nov 30 Trust Modaraba(TRSM)	1.43 ▼ -0.17 (-10.63%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 30 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	8.30 ▼ -0.95 (-10.27%)
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Nov 30 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	9.06 ▼ -0.94 (-9.40%)
Jahangir Sidd(Pref) / Nov 30 Jahangir Sidd(Pref)(JSCLPSA)	8.51 ▼ -0.74 (-8.00%)
Ideal Sp. / Nov 30 Ideal Spinning Mills Limited(IDSM)	14.66 ▼ -1.19 (-7.51%)
AKD Hospitality / Nov 30 AKD Hospitality Limited(AKDHL)	159.28 ▼ -12.91 (-7.50%)
Blessed Tex. / Nov 30 Blessed Textiles Limited(BTL)	317.28 ▼ -25.72 (-7.50%)
Universal Network (GEM) / Nov 30 Universal Network Systems Limited (GEM)(GEMUNSL)	32.99 ▼ -2.67 (-7.49%)
Metro Steel / Nov 30 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	21.37 ▼ -1.73 (-7.49%)

Stock	Volume
B.O.Punjab / Nov 30 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	50,052,966 ▼ -0.21
Cnergyico PK / Nov 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	35,689,157 ▼ -0.07
Pak Refinery / Nov 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	35,409,231 ▼ -0.13
Fauji Fert Bin / Nov 30 Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited(FFBL)	32,650,500 ▲ 1.67
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	30,751,189 ▼ -0.01
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 30 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	30,039,307 ▲ 0.58
Kohinoor Spining / Nov 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	23,573,500 ▼ -0.20
The Searle Co. / Nov 30 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	21,694,598 ▼ -0.38
Dewan Cement / Nov 30 Dewan Cement Limited(DCL)	21,032,000 ▲ 0.07
Fauji Cement / Nov 30 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	15,482,500 ▲ 0.67

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 30	285.78
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 30	285.23
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 30	147.02
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 30	0.87
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 30	1.27
Euro to USD / Nov 30	1.10
UK LIBOR % / Nov 29	5.46

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 29	4550.58
Nasdaq / Nov 29	14258.49
Dow Jones / Nov 29	35430.42
India Sensex / Nov 30	66809.11
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 30	33486.89
Hang Seng / Nov 30	17042.88
FTSE 100 / Nov 30	7437.50
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 30	16203.24
France CAC40 / Nov 30	7279.08

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 29	17735
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 29	185614
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 30	78.06
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 30	2044.28
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 30	79.69

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