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Dancing on a volcano

Ten days into the new fiscal year, the FY25 budget is already in disarray. Amid calls for a nationwide strike, the...

Published 10 Jul, 2024 03:14am

Opinion

The long and winding road to revitalising investment

Pakistan’s investment-to-GDP ratio is at its lowest in fifty years, despite promises of tens of billions in ...

Updated 27 May, 2024 06:54am

Opinion

Flawed IMF programme design

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) analysis and prescriptions in the second and final review document...

Updated 20 May, 2024 06:19am

Opinion

Outlook 2024 – II

Increasing bank lending should to be the next move. The ratio of advances to deposits should increase from present...

Updated 03 Jan, 2024 05:59am

Business & Finance

Turkey’s 2022 budget deficit 139bn lira

ISTANBUL: The Turkish budget deficit was 139.1 billion lira ($7.4 billion) last year and its ratio to gross domestic...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 01:37pm

Markets

IMF calls for EU fiscal capacity, rules to be linked to risk

BRUSSELS: The European Union should set up a fiscal capacity to pay for EU public goods, link the pace of debt cuts...

Published 05 Sep, 2022 12:37pm

External debt to reach $140.9bn: IMF

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected Pakistan’s external debt to reach $140.959 billion...

Updated 03 Sep, 2022 09:43am

Markets

British midcaps slide over 2pc

LONDON: London’s FTSE 250 index fell to its lowest level in three months on Monday after data showed Britain’s...

Published 14 Jun, 2022 05:56am

Opinion

Pakistan: economic focus

The international financial institution — World Bank (WB) — which is an influential source of funding as well as...

Published 21 Apr, 2022 05:26am

Tax-to-GDP ratio suffers blow due to pandemic

ISLAMABAD: The tax-to-GDP ratio of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) suffered a blow due to the Covid situation and...

Updated 10 Nov, 2021 09:42am

BR Research

GDP rebasing: no more delays!

There is little doubt that the size of Pakistan’s economy is understated. Many economic indictors such as per...

Updated 27 Aug, 2021 09:30am

Business & Finance

Call for exempting small, marginal farmers, developing simple system for taxation

LAHORE: If agriculture income is to be taxed to increase tax to GDP ratio, then the government should exempt small...

Published 25 Jul, 2021 05:20am

Factors behind low tax-to-GDP ratio listed

ISLAMABAD: The distortionary exemptions, concessions, weak enforcement, low compliance by taxpayers, reliance on...

Published 11 Jun, 2021 03:41am

Business & Finance

Public debt increases by Rs1.607trn

ISLAMABAD: External debt of $81.606 billion in the Economic Survey 2020-21 does not contain foreign exchange...

Published 11 Jun, 2021 03:41am

Supplements

Climate change – challenges and opportunities

Three years from now 143 countries will be celebrating the 50th year of the World Environment Day. It is a day for...

Updated 13 Jun, 2021 12:02am

Business

Sarhad chamber for extending incentives to returns filers

PESHAWAR: Sarhad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Peshawar for extending certain incentives to existing tax ...

Published 11 May, 2021 04:39am

Business & Finance

BoI making environment more friendly, less time-consuming

ISLAMABAD: The Board of Investment (BoI) has made significant progress on the 6th Doing Business Reforms Action Plan...

Updated 11 Apr, 2021 10:29am

Markets

South Africa's 3-month T-bill average yields at 3.88%

The bid-to-cover ratio rose to 1.8 from 1.1 last week.

Published 09 Apr, 2021 03:48pm

Editorials

Tax to GDP ratio: decline persists

EDITORIAL: Development Policy Series in collaboration with the World Bank during a webinar titled “Unlocking...

Published 08 Mar, 2021 05:45am

Pakistan

‘Increase in pension bill serious problem than power sector debt’

LAHORE: Vice President Pakistan Businesses Forum (PBF) Ahmad Jawad has said that government rapidly increasing...

Published 01 Feb, 2021 03:39am

Business & Finance

Thailand to sell $2bn savings bonds to finance stimulus measures

All of the debt is under a 1 trillion Thai baht ($33.37 billion) borrowing plan announced last year in response to the pandemic.

Published 25 Jan, 2021 12:42pm

Markets

South Korea shares post record closing high on chip boost, US stimulus hopes

The won ended at 1,100.7 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.23% higher than its previous close at 1,103.2.

Published 25 Jan, 2021 12:24pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Oct 3	277.80
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Oct 3	277.60
USD to Japanese Yen / Oct 3	146.38
USD to Swiss Franc / Oct 3	0.85
Pound Sterling to USD / Oct 3	1.32
Euro to USD / Oct 3	1.10

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Oct 2	5,709.54
Nasdaq / Oct 2	17,925.13
Dow Jones / Oct 2	42,196.52
India Sensex / Oct 3	82,818.42
Tokyo Nikkei / Oct 3	38,552.06
Hang Seng / Oct 3	22,190.45
FTSE 100 / Oct 3	8,294.15
Germany DAX 30 / Oct 3	19,060.13

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Oct 3	71.09
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Oct 3	18,085
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Oct 3	235,254
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Oct 3	2,647.90
Cotton US¢/pound / Oct 3	73.25
Petrol/Litre / Oct 4	247.03

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Oct 4 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Oct 4 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Oct 4 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Oct 4 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Oct 4 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Oct 4 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Oct 4 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Oct 4 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Oct 4 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Oct 4 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Oct 4 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Oct 4 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Oct 4 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Oct 4 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Oct 4 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Oct 4 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Oct 4 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Oct 4 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Oct 4 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Oct 4 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Oct 4 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Oct 4 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Oct 4 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Oct 4 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Oct 4 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Oct 4 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Oct 4 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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