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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

World

EU Commission agrees to extend sale deadline for Monte dei Paschi

MILAN: The European Commission on Tuesday approved revised restructuring targets for Italian bank Monte dei Paschi ...

Published 03 Aug, 2022 04:55am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 30	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 30	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 30	156.75
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 30	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 30	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 30	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 29	5116.17
Nasdaq / Apr 29	15983.08
Dow Jones / Apr 29	38386.09
India Sensex / Apr 30	75020.21
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 30	38337.50
Hang Seng / Apr 30	17733.21
FTSE 100 / Apr 30	8175.09
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 30	18100.97

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 26	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 29	209105
Petrol/Litre / Apr 30	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 30	82.43
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 30	2326.07
Diesel/Litre / Apr 30	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 30 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 30 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 30 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 30 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 30 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 30 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 30 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 30 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 30 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 30 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 30 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 30 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 30 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 30 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 30 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 30 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 30 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 30 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 30 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 30 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 30 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 30 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 30 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 30 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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