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KCCI felicitates Miftah on revival of IMF programme

KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has highly appreciated and congratulated the Federal...

Published 31 Aug, 2022 07:27am

Pakistan

Rehabilitation of flood-hit areas: Planning minister says $10bn required in initial stage

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal has said that according to...

Published 31 Aug, 2022 05:50am

World

Sri Lanka says IMF bailout talks in ‘final stage’

COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s president announced further tax hikes and sweeping reforms on Tuesday, saying...

Published 30 Aug, 2022 06:15pm

Pakistan

IMF programme: PML-N readies resolution about Tareen’s ‘conspiracy against state’

LAHORE: A resolution expressing concern over the audio calls of Shaukat Tareen, Mohsin Laghari and Taimur Jhagra...

Published 30 Aug, 2022 07:04am

Pakistan

IMF Board approves revival of Pakistan's Extended Fund Facility, says Miftah Ismail

Finance minister says Pakistan should now be getting the tranche of $1.17bn

Updated 29 Aug, 2022 09:40pm

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

KP flood situation ‘takes precedence over all else’: Jhagra

ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra on Saturday said the province has a flood...

Updated 28 Aug, 2022 09:20am

Opinion

Fiscal performance in 2021-22

The results of fiscal operations for 2021-22 have been released. It is a spectacle of one of the worst fiscal...

Published 24 Aug, 2022 05:08am

Editorials

Quantum Index of LSM

EDITORIAL: Data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reveals that the Quantum Index of Large Scale...

Published 22 Aug, 2022 06:33am

Opinion

Annus horribilis?

Mr Market clearly didn’t need more than a minute to believe Finance Minister Miftah Ismail when he said that the...

Updated 18 Aug, 2022 03:06pm

Acting governor of SBP explains criticality of IMF programme

Dr Murtaza Syed inaugurates the Roshan Pension Plan to augment the lifestyle banking services available under the State Bank’s Roshan Digital Account initiative for overseas Pakistanis

Updated 15 Aug, 2022 10:24am

Lower energy demand, oil prices: Miftah says BoP surplus ‘imminent’

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Dr. Miftah Ismail has said the balance of payments position is ...

Updated 11 Aug, 2022 09:50am

Once IMF programme resumes: ADB to disburse over $1.5bn to support BoP

Govt had requested ADB in June to expedite disbursement of nearly $2 billion

Updated 06 Aug, 2022 09:31am

Markets

Meeting IMF funding gap: One friendly country has already confirmed assurance, says Miftah

Finance minister says another friendly country will confirm its assurance in a day or two

Updated 04 Aug, 2022 06:40pm

Opinion

‘Future ain’t what it used to be’

If political and economic crises feeding off of and into each other tend to characterize the last gasps of dying...

Updated 04 Aug, 2022 11:47am

Opinion

Global economic players’ dismal policy action

International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the July 2022 update of one of its flagship reports ‘World...

Published 29 Jul, 2022 06:14am

Pakistan

S&P downgrades outlook on Pakistan's long-term ratings to negative

Says revision reflects Pakistan's weakening external metrics against a backdrop of higher commodity prices, tighter global financial conditions, and a weakening rupee

Updated 28 Jul, 2022 07:56pm

Opinion

Reducing C/A deficit

The rupee has taken a real beating last week, falling by 8 percent with respect to the dollar. There are both...

Published 26 Jul, 2022 04:31am

Country’s financing needs fully met for this year: SBP

SBP acting governor says ‘unwarranted’ market concerns will dissipate in weeks
‘Pakistan responded to external pressures faster than Sri Lanka’
Terms IMF programme an ‘important anchor’ for Pakistan

Updated 24 Jul, 2022 09:03am

BR Research

The plot thickens…

The political landscape has changed. The change brought in by the VoNC through combined efforts of virtually all the...

Published 19 Jul, 2022 08:42am

Opinion

Ambitious reforms: need of the hour

With the glaring example of Sri Lanka defaulting on its debt, the risk of Pakistan facing a similar fate should be ...

Published 19 Jul, 2022 06:00am

Opinion

‘A cruel IMF programme’

This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed “A cruel IMF programme” carried by the newspaper on Friday. That the...

Published 17 Jul, 2022 05:19am

Opinion

A cruel IMF programme

‘The pandemic triggered a dramatic increase in public debt in developing economies, from 54 to 65 per cent of GDP...

Published 15 Jul, 2022 06:20am

Pakistan

IMF announces staff-level agreement with Pakistan

Subject to Board approval, about $1.177bn will become available
IMF says Pakistan plans to undertake comprehensive review of anti-corruption institutions (including the National Accountability Bureau) to enhance effectiveness in investigating and prosecuting corruption cases

Updated 14 Jul, 2022 10:13am

Pakistan

Pakistan reaches agreement with IMF to resume programme: report

Bloomberg, quoting a govt official, says disbursement of $1.2 billion expected in August

Published 13 Jul, 2022 06:18pm

Opinion

An elusive IMF programme

One can say with reasonable confidence that the economic circumstances facing today have no parallel in the history...

Published 13 Jul, 2022 05:48am

Opinion

New IMF precondition

Strengthening of the anti-corruption institutional mechanism is said to be a new International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Published 09 Jul, 2022 03:57am

Editorials

There’s no out-of-the-box thinking

EDITORIAL: The budget 2022-23 envisages higher revenue by about a trillion rupees compared to the year before, with...

Published 07 Jul, 2022 05:35am

Markets

Rupee falls again, closes near 208 against US dollar

Back-to-back losses come over renewed concern on IMF programme

Updated 06 Jul, 2022 06:07pm

Opinion

Govt policy still shrouded in mist

This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial “PM’s ‘strategic roadmap’” carried by the newspaper on...

Published 06 Jul, 2022 05:35am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 15	278.43
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 15	278.23
USD to Japanese Yen / May 15	156.28
USD to Swiss Franc / May 15	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 15	1.26
Euro to USD / May 15	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 14	5246.68
Nasdaq / May 14	16511.18
Hang Seng / May 14	19073.71
Dow Jones / May 14	39558.11
India Sensex / May 15	73025.23
Tokyo Nikkei / May 15	38385.73
FTSE 100 / May 15	8467.99
Germany DAX 30 / May 15	18796.11

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 15	78.55
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 15	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 15	209191
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 15	2361.55
Cotton US¢/pound / May 15	74.42
Petrol/Litre / May 16	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

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

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

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

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