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LSM: Revival will be painfully slow

For the fourth month running, LSM reading recorded a positive year-on-year growth, as March 2024 LSM grew 2 percent...

Published 17 May, 2024 09:30am

Business & Finance

Q2 of FY24: Industrial production records contraction for 4th consecutive quarter

KARACHI: The industrial production recorded contraction for the fourth consecutive quarter in the second quarter of...

Published 15 May, 2024 05:47am

Opinion

The LSM sector

Large scale manufacturing (LSM) registered negative 0.52 (cumulative) July-January 2024 against negative 2.67 ...

Updated 29 Apr, 2024 05:25am

BR Research

Power generation: The rut continues

For the sixth month running, electricity generation went down year-on-year, as March 2024 generation was recorded...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 08:55am

Editorials

The LSM decline

EDITORIAL: Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) registered negative 0.51 percent growth July-February 2024 against the...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 05:07am

BR Research

LSM: 20 months in the red

The longest negative LSM growth streak got longer, as per the latest data released by the Pakistan Bureau of...

Published 18 Apr, 2024 07:39am

Jul-Feb LSM posts negative growth YoY

ISLAMABAD: The overall Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector has shown a growth of -0.51 per cent during the first...

Updated 17 Apr, 2024 08:59am

Editorials

March economic outlook

EDITORIAL: In the most damning indictment of the caretaker government’s performance on the economic front, the Gross...

Published 02 Apr, 2024 04:37am

Business & Finance

Q2 GDP stands at 1pc despite improvement in agri sector

ISLAMABAD: The GDP growth stood at one percent in the second quarter of the ongoing fiscal year against the revised...

Updated 30 Mar, 2024 08:47am

BR Research

LSM: Still in red, just

The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) Index, on a cumulative basis, stayed negative for the 19th straight month, as...

Published 18 Mar, 2024 08:17am

Business & Finance

Jul-Jan LSM sector attains negative growth YoY

ISLAMABAD: The overall Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector has shown a growth of -0.52 percent during the first...

Published 16 Mar, 2024 06:26am

Editorials

February Economic Update and Outlook

EDITORIAL: The February 2024 Economic Update and Outlook uploaded on the Finance Division website on the last day of...

Published 06 Mar, 2024 04:18am

Business & Finance

LSM attains negative growth in 1H

ISLAMABAD: The overall Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector has shown a growth of -0.39 per cent during the first...

Published 16 Feb, 2024 06:02am

Editorials

State of the economy

EDITORIAL: The January Outlook and Update uploaded on the Finance Division website claims that “the first half of...

Published 06 Feb, 2024 05:00am

Challenges of inflation persist: MoF

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry has said the challenges of inflation persist in the forms of supply chain...

Updated 01 Feb, 2024 08:58am

Business & Finance

Nov LSM sees 1.59pc growth YoY

ISLAMABAD: Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) has registered a growth of 1.59 per cent in November year-on-year basis...

Updated 16 Jan, 2024 09:43am

Opinion

Output: uptick, downtick or ...

This is the first of a two-part series focusing on the significant divergence in calculation of Gross Domestic...

Updated 06 Nov, 2023 06:03am

BR Research

LSM: Green after a long time

The jinx is finally broken. After 13 long months of consecutive negative growth – the Large-Scale Manufacturing...

Published 23 Oct, 2023 05:57am

Editorials

Rise in LSM output

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released very encouraging data on large-scale manufacturing (LSM)...

Published 19 Oct, 2023 05:10am

Opinion

Poverty on the rise

Poverty levels have risen from 34.2 percent in 2022 to 39.4 percent in 2023, pushing 12.5 million people below the...

Updated 09 Oct, 2023 07:03am

Business & Finance

Economic revival plan: Tax on retail, agri and real estate sectors may be revised: MoF

Key measures include revenue enhancement strategies including tax revisions in sectors such as retail, agriculture, and real estate, alongside a wealth tax on movable assets, as deemed appropriate

Updated 30 Sep, 2023 09:45am

Editorials

Significant rise in poverty

EDITORIAL: World Bank officials while briefing the media noted that Pakistan’s poverty level rose to 39.4 percent...

Updated 27 Sep, 2023 07:05am

Opinion

Worst is yet to come

Inflation and purchasing power erosion pinch is now reflected in volumetric sales’ reduction in products and...

Updated 25 Sep, 2023 07:36am

Opinion

Handling the energy crisis

The relentless rise in electricity prices in Pakistan has taken a severe toll on domestic consumers, large-scale...

Published 20 Sep, 2023 06:28am

BR Research

LSM: low base in play

The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) marked the thirteenth consecutive month of negative year-on-year growth – an...

Published 19 Sep, 2023 08:53am

Economic update for August: Upward adjustment in energy tariffs, fuel price hike to strain inflationary pressures: MoF

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry Wednesday said the upward adjustment in energy tariffs and further increase in fuel...

Updated 07 Sep, 2023 09:33am

BR Research

LSM: Tanks double-digits

Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM)growth settled in negative double digits for the outgoing fiscal year. This is so...

Published 18 Aug, 2023 08:40am

Editorials

Woeful LSM decline

EDITORIAL: The FY23 Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) is down 10.3 percent year-on-year. Barring the Covid year, this...

Published 18 Aug, 2023 05:42am

Rs9.4trn revenue collection target: FBR required to rely on policy, some other steps

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will heavily rely on policy and administrative/ enforcement measures...

Updated 09 Aug, 2023 09:27am

Opinion

LSM sector travails

Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector, as per data released by the Finance Division, registered negative 8.1 ...

Published 07 Aug, 2023 06:34am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 23	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 23	278.22
USD to Japanese Yen / May 23	156.74
USD to Swiss Franc / May 23	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 23	1.27
Euro to USD / May 23	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 22	5307.01
Nasdaq / May 22	16801.54
Dow Jones / May 22	39671.04
India Sensex / May 23	74667.86
Tokyo Nikkei / May 23	39034.80
Hang Seng / May 23	18845.59
FTSE 100 / May 23	8373.47
Germany DAX 30 / May 23	18748.98

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / May 23	273.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 23	76.94
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 23	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 23	207476
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 23	2362.37
Diesel/Litre / May 23	274.08

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 23 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 23 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 23 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 23 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 23 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 23 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 23 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 23 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 23 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 23 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 23 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 23 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 23 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 23 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 23 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 23 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 23 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 23 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 23 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 23 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 23 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 23 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 23 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 23 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 23 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 23 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 23 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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