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SDRs

ME conflict and the economic iceberg

Published 01 May, 2026 05:18am

With the Middle East conflict broadly ongoing for almost two months, with a fragile ceasefire holding for the...

ME conflict caused supply shock, and IMF policy-II

Published 24 Apr, 2026 06:45am

It needs to be pointed out that IMF has given no indication for provision of enhanced special drawing rights (SDRs)...

Currency values in terms of Special Drawing Rights

Published 21 Mar, 2025 05:42am

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), treasuries' department's currency values in terms of Special...

Currency values in terms of Special Drawing Rights

Published 19 Mar, 2025 05:36am

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), treasuries' department's currency values in terms of Special...

Existential threats and Neoliberalism — II

Updated 15 Mar, 2025 07:38pm

During the hey days of the Covid pandemic, and especially post Covid pandemic there was lot of talk of world...

Currency values in terms of Special Drawing Rights

Published 14 Mar, 2025 05:34am

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), treasuries' department's currency values in terms of Special...

Currency values in terms of Special Drawing Rights

Published 13 Mar, 2025 05:28am

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), treasuries' department's currency values in terms of Special...

Existential threats and Neoliberalism—I

Updated 08 Mar, 2025 12:38pm

The climate change crisis is fast-unfolding, and unlike what was thought at the time of the ‘Paris Agreement’ on...

Review of the IMF programme

Updated 07 Jan, 2025 07:22am

This is the appropriate time to review progress on implementation of the reforms committed to the IMF in the new IMF...

Trump, global economy, and a world of polycrisis

Updated 08 Nov, 2024 08:38am

The last time Donald Trump was in office, the world was in the midst of a global pandemic, and the cost of living ...

IMF’s risk assessment: eyes half shut

Published 18 Oct, 2024 06:41am

The first coronavirus outbreak – SARS – in the shape of epidemic happened around the beginning of this century....

IMF programme: a mixed bag of economic consequences

Updated 04 Oct, 2024 08:29am

In the statement released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 27, it indicated that it had approved a...

Planning educational emergency

Published 17 May, 2024 05:50am

‘What the best and wisest parents wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children....

IMF board approves members to channel reserve assets to MDBs for hybrid instruments

Published 15 May, 2024 09:49pm

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday announced that its executive board has approved members to...

Immediate economic priorities for the incoming government

Published 09 Feb, 2024 03:29am

The new government that comes into office will have its work sharply cut out as far as the economic challenges are...

Some important economic policy questions

Published 22 Dec, 2023 05:22am

The first important policy question facing policymakers is how much role aggregate demand plays in determining...

Misplaced optimism about economy

Published 15 Dec, 2023 03:12am

Given elections are scheduled for early February, a few months into 2024 spring will bring into public life a new...

IMF’s policy needs deeper political economic thinking

Published 02 Oct, 2023 07:03am

‘“Escalating protests in Pakistan against rising costs linked to IMF demands, which follow similar protests in...

Economic policy by the interim govt

Updated 18 Aug, 2023 06:22am

Given Pakistan is facing very difficult economic challenge, mainly in the shape of bringing debt sustainability, on...

Inequality, poverty, and austerity — II

Published 22 Jul, 2023 06:25am

Unfortunately, both the IMF and individual countries practicing these, in or outside of the IMF programme, are not...

Climate change crisis and multilateralism

Updated 07 Jul, 2023 06:04am

‘I played a key role as chair of the African Union during the Covid period. We felt like we were beggars when it...

Global economic crisis: Neoliberalism, debt sustainability, SDRs, and multilateralism

Updated 26 May, 2023 07:12am

The global economy is facing existential threats of climate change and Pandemicene crises. The underlying basis for...

Economic stress

Updated 12 May, 2023 06:33am

Since around September 2021, and especially since April last year, economic stress has come to Pakistan from a ...

Serious economic crisis due to austerity policies, and weak multilateralism

Updated 07 Apr, 2023 06:32am

Inadequate provision of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) special drawing rights (SDRs) to Pakistan, like in...

SDR allocation, monetary tightening, inflation, and banking crisis

Published 31 Mar, 2023 06:45am

While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues to not provide a much-needed special drawing rights (SDRs)...

Understanding austerity

Published 10 Mar, 2023 03:46am

There is a general confusion in Pakistan, whereby austerity policies are taken as belt-tightening in terms of...

Developing countries’ lost decade?

Updated 03 Mar, 2023 06:58am

Global average temperatures have reached 1.2 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial era, and most scientific...

Debt relief for developing countries

Published 17 Feb, 2023 06:00am

When the Covid pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) back in early 2020, a number of...

2023: year of non-neoliberal, non-austerity, counter-cyclical reform policy

Updated 30 Dec, 2022 06:28am

Agreed, Pakistan’s credit default swap (CDS) risk has increased substantially during the current year, that it has...

IMF policy needs a serious rethink

Published 16 Dec, 2022 05:58am

The first major jolt to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) thinking regarding pursuing austerity policy...

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 17	162.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 17	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 17	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 17	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 17	64,141.12
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Hang Seng / Jul 17	24,562.24
FTSE 100 / Jul 17	10,600.37
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 17	24,830.98
France CAC40 / Jul 17	8,338.81

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 17	82.49
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 17	4,017.39
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 17	78.63
Petrol/Litre / Jul 19	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 19	354.35

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Dadabhoy Cement / Jul 17 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	17.01 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
Ruby Textile / Jul 17 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	17.59 ▲ 1.6 (10.01%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 17 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	53.68 ▲ 4.88 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 17 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	272.21 ▲ 24.75 (10%)
Suhail Jute / Jul 17 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	223.96 ▲ 20.36 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 17 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	418.56 ▲ 38.05 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 17 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	50.61 ▲ 4.6 (10%)
Asia Ins. / Jul 17 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	34.45 ▲ 3.13 (9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 17 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	107.58 ▲ 9.65 (9.85%)
TPL Trakker Ltd / Jul 17 TPL Trakker Limited(TPLT)	27.91 ▲ 2.5 (9.84%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp. (R) / Jul 17 Tariq Corporation Limited(Right)(TCORPR2)	2.70 ▼ -0.89 (-24.79%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jul 17 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	11.04 ▼ -1.23 (-10.02%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 17 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,871.47 ▼ -207.94 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 17 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	62.27 ▼ -6.92 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 17 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	97.59 ▼ -10.84 (-10%)
Mughal Iron & Steel(C) / Jul 17 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd (C)(MUGHALC)	63 ▼ -6.99 (-9.99%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 17 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	150.29 ▼ -16.65 (-9.97%)
Paramount Spinning / Jul 17 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	10.91 ▼ -1.1 (-9.16%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jul 17 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	23.62 ▼ -2.36 (-9.08%)
Supernet Tech. / Jul 17 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	41.34 ▼ -3.72 (-8.26%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 17 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	86,491,992 ▲ 0.19
TPL Properties / Jul 17 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	62,545,194 ▼ -0.67
Pak Refinery / Jul 17 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,580,070 ▲ 2.94
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 17 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,499,606 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 17 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,396,866 ▼ -0.24
Lotte Chemical / Jul 17 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,830,259 ▼ -1.32
Hascol Petrol / Jul 17 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	14,534,208 ▼ -0.33
B.O.Punjab / Jul 17 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,503,494 ▼ -0.51
TPL REIT Fund I / Jul 17 TPL REIT Fund I(TPLRF1)	11,458,248 ▼ -0.29
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 17 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	10,427,355 ▲ 0.51

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