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Current expenditure constitutes a challenge

Published 03 Mar, 2026 05:24am

EDITORIAL: Global debt rose to USD 348 trillion by end December 2025, thereby challenging the Keynesian guidelines...

Japan’s GDP falls short of expectations

Published 16 Feb, 2026 12:20pm

Gross domestic product (GDP) in the world’s fourth-biggest economy expanded by just 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter

OPINION: The root cause of public discontent

Updated 19 Jan, 2026 08:18am

The government narrative on the state of the economy, not surprisingly, remains extremely upbeat though there are...

Improving tax-to-GDP ratio crucial to ease Pakistan debt burden: FBR official

Published 20 May, 2025 09:18pm

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chief commissioner Aftab Alam said on Tuesday improving tax-to-GDP ratio was...

UK economy grows 0.5% in February, beating expectations

Published 11 Apr, 2025 12:05pm

LONDON: Britain’s economy grew at a monthly pace of 0.5% in February, figures from the Office for National...

Q2FY24: Pakistan sees GDP growth of 1%, below expectation

Updated 28 Mar, 2024 10:34pm

National Accounts Committee says agriculture sees 5.02% growth, but industrial sector contracts

Spanish economy returns to pre-pandemic levels

Published 23 Jun, 2023 06:39pm

MADRID: Spain’s economy returned to pre-pandemic levels during the first quarter as it grew more than previously...

Malaysia’s economy jumps in Q2 but slower growth expected

Published 12 Aug, 2022 11:27am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy grew at its fastest annual pace in a year in the second quarter, boosted by...

State of economy: yet another impasse

Published 18 Apr, 2022 05:30am

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s projected growth rate for the current year is 4.3 percent while 4 percent is projected for...

Gulf bourses rise, strong economic data propels Saudi 2pc higher

Published 17 Mar, 2022 04:53am

DUBAI: Gulf markets ended higher on Wednesday, with Saudi Arabia’s main index marking a gain after five straight...

Qatar's economy grows by 2.6% in Q3 2021, lifted by non-hydrocarbon sector

Published 12 Jan, 2022 02:42pm

DOHA: Qatar's economy grew 2.6% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2021, according to official estimates, driven...

Vietnam says 2021 state budget deficit was below 4% of GDP

Published 06 Jan, 2022 11:07am

HANOI: Vietnam's state budget deficit was below 4% of its gross domestic product in 2021, despite its spending to...

Taiwan seen growing 4% in Q3 on pandemic hit, but exports help

Published 26 Oct, 2021 11:05am

TAIPEI: Taiwan's trade-reliant economy is expected to have expanded at a slower pace in the third quarter due to the...

Qatar to tap debt markets only on 'opportunistic' basis this year

Published 23 Jun, 2021 04:26am

DUBAI: Qatar will tap the debt market only on an "opportunistic" basis this year after a surge in energy prices...

France's Finance Minister eyes public deficit of 9.4% in 2021

Updated 31 May, 2021 11:02am

Le Maire also told France 2 television he expected economic growth to return in early 2022 to pre-COVID 19 crisis levels.

French growth rebound fails to materialise in Q1

Published 29 May, 2021 03:59am

PARIS: A much-expected rebound of France's Covid-battered economy failed to materialise in the first quarter as key...

Coronavirus hit on German economy bigger than expected in first quarter

Published 25 May, 2021 12:20pm

On the year, gross domestic product contracted by 3.1%, the Federal Statistics Office said.

‘Increased GDP growth has confused opposition parties’

Britain's economy suffered the biggest drop of all countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development except for Argentina and Spain last year, OECD data has shown.

Kazakhstan's GDP contraction slows in to 2.9% in Jan-Feb

Published 11 Mar, 2021 11:48am

The contraction was less steep than the 4.5% drop seen in January, he told a government meeting.

Multinationals mask lockdown damage in Irish 2020 GDP growth

Published 06 Mar, 2021 05:01am

DUBLIN: Irish gross domestic product grew by 3.4% in 2020 as the large and relatively pandemic-proof multinational...

Swiss spooked by using debt to prop up economy

Published 21 Feb, 2021 11:07am

After falling by 8.6 percent in the first half of the year, Swiss GDP rebounded with a 7.2-percent gain in the third quarter.

Brazil economic activity fell 4.05pc in 2020, central bank index shows

Published 12 Feb, 2021 08:13pm

The IBC-Br economic activity index, a leading indicator of gross domestic product, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.64% in December.
The government's GDP forecast for last year is a 4.5% contraction, which would be its biggest annual slump yet.

Britain's economy to reach pre-COVID-19 levels within two years

Updated 12 Feb, 2021 11:49pm

Last year the BoE slashed Bank Rate to 0.1% and restarted its bond buying programme to offer support to the economy. Medians in the poll suggest there will be no unwinding of that ultra-loose monetary policy until 2024 at the earliest.

Slovenia's 2020 budget gap narrower than forecast

Published 29 Jan, 2021 06:02pm

"Revenues amounted to 9.08 billion euros, or 10.4% lower than in 2019, while expenditures rose 26.8% from 2019, reaching 12.57 billion euros," the ministry said.
In 2021, the government expects a budget gap of 2.75 billion euros, or 5.6% of GDP.

Virus pushes French economy into deep recession

Published 29 Jan, 2021 02:24pm

The government for its part had estimated the economy would shrink by a much worse 11 percent for the year.

Emerging markets to bear brunt of sovereign rating cuts in 2021, says S&P Global

Updated 27 Jan, 2021 11:23pm

The coronavirus crisis is expected to push the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratios in the G7 group of rich nations up by 23 percentage points by the end of 2021 compared to 2019.
"That doesn't mean that developed economies are getting a pass. It just means that they have bought themselves more time," he said.

China takes lead over US in foreign direct investment in 2020

Published 25 Jan, 2021 10:44am

Direct investments in China by foreign companies increased by four percent
New investments by overseas businesses into the US fell 49 percent last year as the country struggled to curb the spread of the new coronavirus affecting the economic output

Final consumption accounts for 54.3% of China's 2020 GDP

Published 18 Jan, 2021 11:18am

There is still big room for consumption to play the fundamental driving force for growth.

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 20	162.36
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 20	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 20	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 20	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 20	77,672.21
Hang Seng / Jul 20	25,069.85
FTSE 100 / Jul 20	10,562.80
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 20	24,913.94
France CAC40 / Jul 20	8,361.60

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Petrol/Litre / Jul 20	316.15
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 20	84.29
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 20	4,011.10
Diesel/Litre / Jul 20	354.35
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 20	79.24

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Asia Ins. / Jul 20 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	37.90 ▲ 3.45 (10.01%)
TPL Insurance / Jul 20 TPL Insurance Limited(TPLI)	64.08 ▲ 5.83 (10.01%)
Ahmad Hassan / Jul 20 Ahmad Hassan Textile Mills Limited(AHTM)	100.21 ▲ 9.11 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 20 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	460.42 ▲ 41.86 (10%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 20 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	59.05 ▲ 5.37 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 20 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	299.43 ▲ 27.22 (10%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	118.34 ▲ 10.76 (10%)
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49.05 ▲ 4.46 (10%)
Husein Industries / Jul 20 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	55 ▲ 5 (10%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jul 20 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	45.98 ▲ 4.18 (10%)

Stock	Price
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 20 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,684.32 ▼ -187.15 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 20 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	56.04 ▼ -6.23 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	87.83 ▼ -9.76 (-10%)
Maqbool Textile / Jul 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	33.43 ▼ -3.71 (-9.99%)
Ideal Dynamics / Jul 20 Ideal Dynamics Limited(IDEAL)	49.50 ▼ -5.25 (-9.59%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 20 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	136.39 ▼ -13.9 (-9.25%)
Buxly Paints / Jul 20 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	173.04 ▼ -16.9 (-8.9%)
ARM Green Industries / Jul 20 ARM Green Industries Limited(ARMG)	64.63 ▼ -6.07 (-8.59%)
Elahi Cotton / Jul 20 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	216.01 ▼ -20.08 (-8.51%)
Metro Steel / Jul 20 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	22.03 ▼ -2.02 (-8.4%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	166,059,814 ▲ 0.8
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49,159,104 ▲ 4.46
TPL Properties / Jul 20 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	38,436,785 ▲ 0.41
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Jul 20 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	36,283,729 ▲ 0.15
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	27,615,297 ▼ -0.07
Lotte Chemical / Jul 20 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,575,908 ▲ 0.54
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	15,089,114 ▲ 0
B.O.Punjab / Jul 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	14,202,726 ▲ 0.01
Maple Leaf Cement / Jul 20 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	13,521,739 ▲ 0.86
F. Nat.Equities / Jul 20 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	13,125,536 ▲ 0.01

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