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Data requirements: PBS workshop to ‘ensure more comprehensive understanding’

KARACHI: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Monday held 2nd workshop of a series, in collaboration with the...

Published 28 Nov, 2023 04:56am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.06pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the current week, ended 23 November 2023, decreased ...

Published 25 Nov, 2023 05:19am

Editorials

Inflation at a dangerous level

EDITORIAL: Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the week ending 16 November 2023 increased by 9.95 percent against a rise...

Published 21 Nov, 2023 06:01am

Markets

Weekly Cotton Review: Spot rate decreases amid dull business

KARACHI: The production of cotton till now is said to be seventy three lac and seventy thousand bales; however, the...

Published 20 Nov, 2023 06:28am

Business & Finance

Jul-Oct mobile phone imports soar 107.91pc to $469.99m YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones worth $469.992 million during the first four months (July-October) of...

Published 19 Nov, 2023 03:14am

Markets

Jul-Oct: Petroleum group imports register negative growth of 16.93pc

ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group imports witnessed a negative growth of 16.93 percent during the first four months...

Published 18 Nov, 2023 06:03am

Jul-Oct period: Textile exports down 6.33pc to $5.565bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports declined by around 6.33 per cent during the first four months...

Updated 18 Nov, 2023 09:09am

Business & Finance

Q1 LSMI output up 0.68pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) output increased by 0.68 percent during the first quarter...

Published 16 Nov, 2023 05:39am

Pakistan

Internet bandwidth: PTA to review charging mechanism

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is planning to assess and review the charging mechanism of...

Published 14 Nov, 2023 05:08am

Opinion

Estimation of the quarterly GDP

Pakistan has committed to the IMF in the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, as part of the Stand-by...

Updated 14 Nov, 2023 05:42am

Markets

SPI inflation up 0.73pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the current week, ended 8 November 2023, increased by...

Published 11 Nov, 2023 06:30am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation up 0.71pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the current week, ended 2nd November 2023, increased...

Published 04 Nov, 2023 06:00am

Essential commodities: NPMC satisfied with current price trend

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

Updated 03 Nov, 2023 08:59am

Editorials

Trade deficit

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) trade data for July-October 2023 notes an improvement in the balance...

Published 03 Nov, 2023 06:11am

October CPI-based inflation stays high at 26.9pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 26.9 per cent on a year-on-year basis in...

Updated 02 Nov, 2023 09:18am

Jul-Oct FY24: Trade deficit shrinks 34.7pc YoY

Country’s exports increase by 0.66 percent to $9.617 billion during July-October 2023-24

Updated 02 Nov, 2023 09:57am

Pakistan

Pakistan’s headline inflation reading clocks in at 26.9% in October

Inflation reading significantly lower than September, when it stood at 31.4%

Updated 01 Nov, 2023 10:57pm

Editorials

Rising Sensitive Price Index: sensitive matter

EDITORIAL: The year-on-year (YoY) increase in the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) remained worryingly high at 29.65...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Business & Finance

CCP launches MIU for market surveillance

ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has launched a new Market Intelligence Unit (MIU) - a new...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 0.33pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the current week, ended 26th October 2023, decreased...

Published 28 Oct, 2023 05:58am

Pakistan

20.9pc female engineering graduates unemployed, 50.9pc out of labour force: Labour Force Survey 2020-21

KARACHI: An analysis of the Labour Force Survey 2020-21 has revealed that out of total 28,920 female engineering...

Published 25 Oct, 2023 06:19am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation down 1.7pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the current week, ended 19th October 2023, decreased...

Updated 21 Oct, 2023 08:53am

Markets

Q1FY24: Petroleum group imports post 28pc negative growth

ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group imports witnessed a negative growth of 28.03 percent during the first quarter...

Published 19 Oct, 2023 05:10am

Q1 textile group exports down 9.95pc to $4.127bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports declined by around 9.95 percent during the first quarter...

Updated 19 Oct, 2023 08:52am

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

Aug LSMI output up by 2.52pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The large-scale manufacturing industries (LSMI) output increased by 2.52 percent for August 2023 compared...

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 09:17am

Pakistan

10.87m mobile handsets made locally

ISLAMABAD: Local manufacturing plants have manufactured/assembled 10.87 million mobile handsets during the first...

Published 15 Oct, 2023 03:19am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation up 0.30pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) based inflation for the week ended 12th October 2023, increased by 0.30...

Published 14 Oct, 2023 05:32am

Editorials

Inflation on the rise

EDITORIAL: Sensitive Price Index (SPI) rose by 0.11 percent for the week ending 5 October 2023 registering a...

Published 11 Oct, 2023 03:10am

Opinion

Spurt in inflation

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released the estimate of the rate of inflation in the national Consumer...

Updated 10 Oct, 2023 06:47am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 25	278.52
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 25	278.32
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 25	155.60
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 25	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 25	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 25	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 24	5070.63
Nasdaq / Apr 24	15712.75
Dow Jones / Apr 24	38460.92
India Sensex / Apr 25	73780.80
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 25	37628.48
Hang Seng / Apr 25	17264.90
FTSE 100 / Apr 25	8077.84
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 25	17994.97

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 23	21035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 23	213220
Petrol/Litre / Apr 25	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 25	83.02
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 25	2325.45
Diesel/Litre / Apr 25	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 25 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 25 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 25 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 25 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 25 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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