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$39.3bn trade deficit in 10 months is not sustainable: FPCCI

LAHORE: Muhammad Nadeem Qureshi, Regional Chairman FPCCI, has stated that the economy cannot sustain the current...

Published 19 May, 2022 05:29am

Opinion

Pakistan’s taxation regime discourages self-employment and small businesses

Pakistan’s tax policy discourages individuals from self-employment or running small businesses. While salaried...

Published 18 May, 2022 05:54am

Business & Finance

1,000 items: expert underscores need for withdrawing GST

LAHORE: Renowned economist and academician Dr Qais Aslam has advised the government to withdraw General Sales Tax...

Published 14 May, 2022 04:05am

Opinion

Economy: PTI govt versus PML-N govt

The latest data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on the balance of payments showcases the significant...

Updated 02 May, 2022 06:14am

Business & Finance

Askari Bank signs MoU with CashNow

ISLAMABAD: Askari Bank has partnered with a Pakistani financial technology company CashNow to expedite the financing...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 04:45am

Business & Finance

KCCI highlights problems faced by SMEs, proposes budget measures

KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has highlighted problems faced by the small and medium...

Published 19 Apr, 2022 05:32am

Business & Finance

PYMA exhorts SBP to help arrest rupee’s slide

KARACHI: Expressing deep concern over the sharp rise in the value of dollar, chairman of the Pakistan Yarn Merchants...

Published 03 Apr, 2022 05:34am

Business & Finance

Limits on aggregate liabilities: Regulations for NBFCs revised

ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has revised regulations for the Non-Banking...

Updated 30 Mar, 2022 09:56am

SBP to launch ‘Challenge Fund for SMEs’

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced that it will launch a Challenge Fund for SMEs (CFS) to...

Published 23 Mar, 2022 04:58am

Business & Finance

SBP, LCCI to hold ‘SME Finance Mela’ on 24th

LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry in collaboration with State Bank of Pakistan is holding SME...

Published 22 Mar, 2022 05:21am

Business & Finance

Ecommerce platforms creating opportunities for SMEs: Song

KARACHI: E-commerce platforms have created opportunities for Pakistan SMEs sector to enhance their exports and earn...

Published 22 Mar, 2022 05:21am

Business & Finance

ADB support different from IMF’s, LCCI told

LAHORE: Vice President of Asian Development Bank Shixin Chen has said that ADB programmes focus on SMEs, women...

Published 19 Mar, 2022 04:42am

Business & Finance

ERKP supports 2,723 SMEs

ISLAMAABD: The World Bank’s Economic Revitalization Project Steers Emergency (ERKP) that funds the Covid-hit small...

Published 17 Mar, 2022 04:53am

Business & Finance

UBL, Safepay enter into an agreement

KARACHI: United Bank Limited (UBL) and Safepay have entered into an agreement for the provision of digital ...

Published 17 Mar, 2022 04:53am

Business & Finance

Karachi likely to have new industrial estate

KARACHI: Secretary Industries & Commerce, Government of Sindh, Amir Khursheed has informed the members of SITE...

Updated 09 Mar, 2022 10:52am

Opinion

Industrialisation is the way to go

With a little over a year and a half left at the disposal of the incumbent government, it is making yet another...

Published 05 Mar, 2022 04:10am

PM unveils industrial package

LAHORE: With focus on attracting both foreign and local investment, Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday unveiled an...

Updated 02 Mar, 2022 09:45am

Business & Finance

SMEs’ promotion: KCCI inks MoC with UK-based CEC

KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with...

Published 24 Feb, 2022 06:34am

Editorials

To control inflation and help the vulnerable

EDITORIAL: The Khan administration’s overarching objective to help the poor and vulnerable cannot be faulted and...

Published 23 Feb, 2022 04:54am

Editorials

Small and medium enterprises

EDITORIAL: The PTI administration has earmarked 1.6 trillion rupees over the next three years under the Kamyab...

Published 22 Feb, 2022 04:43am

Pakistan

KP introduces operational credit schemes for SMEs

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has introduced credit schemes for capacity building of businesses, purchase...

Published 21 Feb, 2022 07:25am

Business & Finance

Covid-19 pandemic restricts MFI operations: World Bank

ISLAMABAD: As the economic crisis arising from the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in Pakistan, microfinance institution...

Updated 17 Feb, 2022 10:24am

Pakistan

NA body approves ‘Federal Government Properties Management Authority Bill, 2021’

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance approved proposed Federal Government...

Published 09 Feb, 2022 05:46am

Pakistan

Gas loadshedding: SITE industrialists take to the streets

KARACHI: The industrialists of SITE Karachi have stringed up protesting banners over various roads and roundabouts ...

Published 30 Jan, 2022 04:04am

Business & Finance

HBL facilitates SMEs through govt’s SAAF Scheme

KARACHI: HBL is providing collateral-free financing at subsidized markup rates to facilitate the Small and Medium...

Published 24 Jan, 2022 06:50am

Business & Finance

Gas crisis affecting industries in Karachi: Zahid

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum,...

Published 23 Jan, 2022 05:17am

BR Research

Holy grail of SAAF lending

The latest financing scheme launched by the SBP targeting SMEs in Pakistan — a promisingly huge but historically...

Published 21 Jan, 2022 06:50am

Business & Finance

FPCCI proposes a‘charter of economy’

KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) acting president Khawaja Shahzeb Akram...

Published 21 Jan, 2022 05:27am

Long-awaited SME policy launched

PM says there is a great role of the SMEs in wealth creation and the government would go in one direction

Updated 20 Jan, 2022 09:44am

Pakistan

SMEs: Dawood hails regulatory reforms

ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the PM on Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood while chairing the sixth Steering...

Published 14 Jan, 2022 07:45am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Pak Mod. / May 20 First Pak Modaraba(PAKMI)	3.30 ▲ 0.90 (37.50%)
B. F. Mod. / May 20 B.F. Modaraba(BFMOD)	7.00 ▲ 1.00 (16.67%)
Paramount Mod / May 20 First Paramount Modaraba(FPRM)	8.99 ▲ 0.99 (12.38%)
S.G.Power / May 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	4.99 ▲ 0.47 (10.40%)
Pak Gen.Ins. / May 20 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	10.99 ▲ 0.91 (9.03%)
Flying Cement / May 20 Flying Cement Company Limited(FLYNG)	8.10 ▲ 0.64 (8.58%)
Pak Engineering / May 20 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	279.50 ▲ 19.50 (7.50%)
Sapphire Fib. / May 20 Sapphire Fibres Limited(SFL)	1099.72 ▲ 76.72 (7.50%)
Dadex Eternit / May 20 Dadex Eternit Limited(DADX)	73.09 ▲ 5.09 (7.49%)
Maqbool Tex. / May 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	64.12 ▲ 4.47 (7.49%)

Stock	Price
Ask.Gen.Insur. / May 20 Askari General Insurance Company Limited(AGIC)	18.06 ▲ -2.73 (-13.13%)
Oilboy Energy / May 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	10.35 ▲ -1.39 (-11.84%)
Sakrand Sugar / May 20 Sakrand Sugar Mills Limited(SKRS)	8.25 ▲ -0.79 (-8.74%)
Punjab Mod / May 20 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	1.64 ▲ -0.15 (-8.38%)
Service Textile / May 20 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	10.00 ▲ -0.90 (-8.26%)
TPL Insurance / May 20 TPL Insurance Limited(TPLI)	30.63 ▲ -2.48 (-7.49%)
AL-Noor Sugar / May 20 Al-Noor Sugar Mills Limited(ALNRS)	57.50 ▲ -4.36 (-7.05%)
Shield Corp. / May 20 Shield Corporation Limited(SCL)	235.50 ▲ -16.50 (-6.55%)
Dynea Pakistan / May 20 Dynea Pakistan Limited(DYNO)	150.13 ▲ -9.87 (-6.17%)
Bal. Wheel / May 20 Baluchistan Wheels Limited(BWHL)	73.85 ▲ -4.78 (-6.08%)

Stock	Volume
K-Electric Ltd. / May 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,994,000 ▼ 0.00
Silk Bank Ltd / May 20 Silkbank Limited(SILK)	16,885,500 ▼ 0.00
Pak Elektron / May 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	16,358,000 ▼ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	12,930,788 ▼ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	12,253,500 ▼ 0.00
Waves Singer / May 20 Waves Singer Pakistan Limited(WAVES)	6,934,500 ▼ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / May 20 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	6,538,000 ▼ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	5,919,271 ▼ 0.00
Fauji Cement / May 20 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	5,880,500 ▼ 0.00
Ghani Glo Hol / May 20 Ghani Global Holdings Limited(GGL)	5,477,638 ▼ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 20	200.20
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 20	199.80
USD to Japanese Yen / May 20	128.12
USD to Swiss Franc / May 20	0.97
Pound Sterling to USD / May 20	1.24
Euro to USD / May 20	1.06
UK LIBOR % / May 20	0.82

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 20	3900.79
India Sensex / May 20	52792.23
Tokyo Nikkei / May 20	26673.91
Nasdaq / May 20	11388.50
Hang Seng / May 20	20581.03
FTSE 100 / May 20	7302.74
Dow Jones / May 20	31253.13
Germany DAX 30 / May 20	13882.30
France CAC40 / May 20	6272.71

Item	Value
Crude Oil / May 20	112.00
Karachi Cotton Assoc. / May 20	21180.00
Gold 10 Grams / May 20	113300.00
Gold Spot / May 20	1838.55
Cotton / May 20	128.58

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