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NAB barred from arresting MPs over allegations, complaints

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) would not arrest any member of the Parliament solely based on...

Published 11 May, 2024 06:22am

BR Research

MPS: slow (and cautious) wins the race

As expected, SBP has maintained the policy rate at 22 percent. However, the implied forward guidance (the language...

Updated 19 Mar, 2024 09:43am

BR Research

MPS: Stay put in March

The monetary policy meeting is on Monday, March 18, 2024 and analysts are divided on where they will be, some...

Updated 15 Mar, 2024 04:58pm

Mixed expectations: MPS on 18th

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is scheduled to announce the Monetary Policy next Monday (March 18) with...

Updated 13 Mar, 2024 09:42am

Pakistan

Asif assails MPs for getting ‘dictation’ from Bajwa, Faiz

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Khawaja Asif lamented that the parliamentarians had to...

Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am

Editorials

MPS strong reflection of state of economy?

EDITORIAL: The 29 January 2024 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) can best be described as a whimper rather than a...

Updated 31 Jan, 2024 06:13am

Business & Finance

SBP may hold rates steady as inflation seen easing

KARACHI: Central bank is expected to hold its key rate steady at a fourth straight policy meeting on Tuesday, with...

Published 12 Dec, 2023 05:28am

Business & Finance

MPS on 12th: Analysts say policy rate to remain unchanged

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is scheduled to announce monetary policy statement on December 12, 2023....

Published 07 Dec, 2023 04:35am

Pakistan

Five former MPs join PML-N

LAHORE: Five former MNAs and MPAs announced joining the PMLN after a meeting with former prime minister and PMLN...

Published 13 Nov, 2023 06:31am

Business & Finance

MPS tomorrow

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will meet on Monday to decide about...

Published 29 Oct, 2023 03:25am

BR Research

MPS: Wait and see

The monetary policy is going to be announced coming Monday (30th October 2023). The rational choice of analysts is...

Published 27 Oct, 2023 08:09am

Editorials

Policy rate kept unchanged

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 22 percent surprising...

Published 18 Sep, 2023 06:32am

Markets

SBP keeps key policy rate unchanged at 22%

Contrary to market expectations, Monetary Policy Committee maintains status quo
Stresses on maintaining prudent fiscal stance to keep aggregate demand in check

Updated 14 Sep, 2023 09:00pm

Business & Finance

MPS tomorrow

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the SBP will meet on Thursday (tomorrow) at SBP Karachi to decide...

Published 13 Sep, 2023 06:17am

Business & Finance

Ministers, MPs and bureaucrats: UBG against making fuel, gas and electricity available free of charge

KARACHI: United Business Group (UBG) has said that the business community demands that, in order to meet the IMF...

Published 04 Aug, 2023 06:20am

Editorials

MPS: Will IMF need to recalibrate its expectations?

EDITORIAL: In a surprise move, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) left the policy rate unchanged at 22 percent,...

Published 02 Aug, 2023 06:47am

MPS on Monday: Analysts give mixed views on policy rate

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will meet on Monday (July 31) to...

Updated 28 Jul, 2023 02:40pm

Editorials

Policy rate hike

EDITORIAL: Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), has not been much successful in justifying the 100 basis point increase...

Published 02 Jul, 2023 03:13am

Editorials

The policy rate challenge

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee raised the policy rate by one percent - to 21 percent - thereby linking the...

Published 06 Apr, 2023 06:20am

SBP seen raising key rate to record 22pc as inflation bites

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will meet on Tuesday, April 04, 2023 at...

Updated 01 Apr, 2023 08:48am

Editorials

MPS: steep rate hike to tame inflation

EDITORIAL: In spite of the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC’s) decision to raise the discount rate to 20 percent...

Published 06 Mar, 2023 06:22am

BR Research

MPS: Need more hawks

SBP increased the policy rate by 1 percent to 17 percent seeing entrenched inflation expectations and sharp and...

Published 24 Jan, 2023 09:56am

BR Research

Building inflation expectations

Inflation expectations are becoming entrenched in Pakistan. There is a case of seven straight months of twenty...

Published 16 Dec, 2022 09:04am

Editorials

MPS makes grim but unsurprising reading

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) raised the policy rate by 100 basis points to 16 percent, reflecting...

Published 28 Nov, 2022 06:09am

Markets

SBP raises key interest rate by 100bps, takes it to 16%

MPC says decision reflects view that inflationary pressures have proven to be stronger and more persistent than expected
Majority of market participants had anticipated central bank to maintain key policy rate

Updated 25 Nov, 2022 08:52pm

Editorials

MPS text influenced by the ‘Dar factor’?

EDITORIAL: Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), the first under the chairmanship of the newly-appointed Governor State...

Published 12 Oct, 2022 05:46am

Business & Finance

MPS on 10th

KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will meet on Monday (Oct 10) at SBP Karachi ...

Published 07 Oct, 2022 05:59am

Editorials

Friendly countries aid fatigue

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while addressing a lawyers’ convention in Islamabad, acknowledged that...

Published 19 Sep, 2022 05:45am

‘Most difficult part is behind us now’: SBP official defends quick hikes in key policy rate

KARACHI: Chief Economist and Research Advisor SBP, Dr Ali Chaudhry has said that the most difficult part is behind ...

Updated 28 Aug, 2022 01:12pm

Pakistan

Monetary policy: SBP keeps key interest rate unchanged at 15%

Monetary Policy Committee says with recent inflation developments in line with expectations, domestic demand beginning to moderate and the external position showing some improvement, it felt it was prudent to take a pause at this stage

Updated 22 Aug, 2022 05:10pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 21	278.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 21	278.30
USD to Japanese Yen / May 21	156.44
USD to Swiss Franc / May 21	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 21	1.27
Euro to USD / May 21	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 20	5308.13
Nasdaq / May 20	16794.88
Dow Jones / May 20	39806.77
India Sensex / May 21	73830.29
Tokyo Nikkei / May 21	39037.68
Hang Seng / May 21	19234.33
FTSE 100 / May 21	8383.95
Germany DAX 30 / May 21	18702.87

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 20	214678
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 21	79.32
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 21	19935
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 21	2414
Cotton US¢/pound / May 21	75.63
Petrol/Litre / May 22	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 22 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 22 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 22 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 22 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 22 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 22 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 22 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 22 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 22 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 22 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 22 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 22 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 22 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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