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SPI inflation up 2.89pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended February 16, 2023, recorded an...

Published 18 Feb, 2023 03:33am

Business & Finance

Jul-Dec LSMI output down 3.68pc

ISLAMABAD: The Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) output has declined by 3.68 per cent during the first ...

Published 16 Feb, 2023 06:08am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI up 0.17pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended February 9, 2023, recorded an...

Published 11 Feb, 2023 05:57am

Editorials

Runaway inflation

EDITORIAL: Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 27.6 percent year on year in January against 24.5 percent the month...

Published 07 Feb, 2023 06:36am

Opinion

Big rise in poverty, unemployment

The current combination of various negative factors is likely to lead to a big exponential jump in the number of...

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 07:11am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation up 2.82pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended February 2, 2023, recorded an...

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 10:14am

Business & Finance

Jul-Jan trade deficit shrinks 31.97pc to $19.632bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit narrowed by 31.97 percent to $19.632 billion during the first seven months...

Updated 03 Feb, 2023 08:42am

Jan food prices rise 43pc YoY

CPI-based inflation hits 48-year high

Updated 02 Feb, 2023 09:10am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI up 0.45pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended 26th January 2023 recorded an...

Published 28 Jan, 2023 06:20am

Business & Finance

Inter-provincial coordination needed to avoid commodities’ scarcity: NPMC

ISLAMABAD: The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Thursday reviewed the prices of essential commodities...

Published 27 Jan, 2023 07:30am

Opinion

GDP growth in 2022-23 — II

The previous article by this writer had presented the estimate of the GDP growth rate in 2022-23 as negative 1% from...

Updated 26 Jan, 2023 12:50am

Business & Finance

Negative growth of 66.73pc YoY: H1 mobile phones import stands at $362.862m

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $362.862 million during the first half (July-December) of the...

Updated 22 Jan, 2023 10:17am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation stays unchanged

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended January 19, remained unchanged,...

Published 21 Jan, 2023 06:49am

Opinion

Wheat crisis

Agrarian economy of Pakistan employs a large workforce and considered vital from a social, livelihood and foreign...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:35am

Business & Finance

Petroleum group imports show negative growth

ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group imports witnessed a negative growth of 8.80 percent during the first half (July-December)...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:10am

Business & Finance

Textile group: H1FY23 exports decline 7.07pc to $8.72bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports declined by around 7.07 percent during the first half (July-December)...

Updated 20 Jan, 2023 08:51am

Editorials

IMF is first option; it’s our last option as well

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s economy is in a tailspin notwithstanding repeated claims to the contrary by Finance Minister...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 06:22am

Jul-Nov LSMI output declines 3.58pc YoY

As per provisional Quantum Index numbers (QIM) of the Large Scale Manufacturing Industries, the LSMI output decreased by 5.49 percent for November 2022

Updated 18 Jan, 2023 08:55am

Markets

Jul-Nov Large Scale Manufacturing sector output down 3.6% YoY

Some of the main contributors towards decline are food, tobacco and textile industries

Updated 17 Jan, 2023 04:12pm

Imported urea: ECC approves DTP, incidental charges

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet stated that fixation of price of imported urea...

Updated 17 Jan, 2023 09:08am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI-based inflation on the rise

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended January 12, recorded an increase ...

Published 14 Jan, 2023 06:22am

Pakistan

Arrangements in place for country’s first digital census: PBS official

ISLAMABAD: The country is going to hold a digital census for the first time this year, with all the preparations...

Published 13 Jan, 2023 06:05am

Editorials

Digital Census

EDITORIAL: In an important development Pakistan is all set to digitalise population and housing census. The National...

Published 11 Jan, 2023 05:53am

SBP seeks feeder-wise data of power consumers

ISLAMABAD: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has sought feeder-wise data of electricity consumers to be used to project...

Updated 10 Jan, 2023 09:03am

Business & Finance

Pakistan: Weekly SPI sharply up 1.09pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) witnessed a sharp increase of 1.09 percent ended on January 5, 2023...

Updated 07 Jan, 2023 08:50am

Jul-Dec trade deficit declines 32.65pc to $17.13bn YoY

The exports during July-December (2022-23) were recorded at $14.249 billion

Updated 04 Jan, 2023 09:11am

Editorials

Analysing the inflationary spiral

EDITORIAL: December 2022 headline inflation (Consumer Price Index) rose by 24.5 percent as per the Pakistan Bureau ...

Published 04 Jan, 2023 06:02am

Inflation refuses to be tamed, rises to 24.5pc

The CPI in the first half (July-December) of current fiscal year on average remained at 25.02per cent compared to 9.81 per cent during the same period of the last fiscal year

Updated 03 Jan, 2023 09:09am

Pakistan

Pakistan's headline inflation clocks in at 24.5% in December

CPI-based number has stayed above 20% for the last 7 months

Updated 02 Jan, 2023 06:51pm

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.09pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended December 29, recorded a decrease ...

Updated 31 Dec, 2022 08:46am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 19	278.45
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 19	278.15
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 19	154.37
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 19	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 19	1.24
Euro to USD / Apr 19	1.06

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 18	5011.12
Nasdaq / Apr 18	15601.50
Dow Jones / Apr 18	37775.38
India Sensex / Apr 19	72222.48
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 19	37068.35
Hang Seng / Apr 19	16205.02
FTSE 100 / Apr 19	7834.89
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 19	17717.67

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 18	21735
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 18	214077
Petrol/Litre / Apr 19	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 19	84.27
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 19	2382.04
Diesel/Litre / Apr 19	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 19 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 19 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 19 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 19 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 19 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 19 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 19 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 19 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 19 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 19 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 19 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 19 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 19 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 19 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 19 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 19 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 19 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 19 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 19 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 19 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 19 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 19 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 19 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 19 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 19 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 19 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 19 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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