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Back on the road

With policy rate cut by half, auto loans have made a strong comeback, and it has translated in a resurgence of...

Published 04 Jul, 2025 06:02am

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Brakes on

Rate cuts have been more than welcoming for car buyers, and it shows in improving sales across the industry. In 10M,...

Updated 30 May, 2025 08:07am

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Wait is over

It has taken 41 months for net automobile loans to circle back to the level they used to be. That’s nearly three...

Updated 28 Apr, 2025 08:08am

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Back in gear

As small as Pakistan’s automobile industry is, it has contracted significantly in recent years. By FY24, industry...

Published 08 Apr, 2025 09:04am

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‘Owning’ the market

Car sales are rising and driving up the premiums as they go. Known locally as “own money”, this is where buyers pay...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 06:59am

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INDU: Good ol’ demand

It wasn’t too long ago when Indus Motors was keeping its plant shut down due to material shortages and supply chain...

Published 14 Mar, 2025 07:36am

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Shifting gears

The automotive market is salvaging its size. After dropping to a historic low in FY24, the market is growing once...

Published 19 Feb, 2025 07:49am

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Rivian says other automakers ‘knocking on door’ about tech from VW joint venture

PALO ALTO: A joint venture between US electric pickup and SUV maker Rivian and Volkswagen is in talks with other...

Published 24 Jan, 2025 10:49am

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Mixed signals

Consumers say they don’t intend to purchase motor vehicles in the next six months—well, most consumers, not all;...

Published 15 Jan, 2025 07:55am

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SUVs take the spotlight as Pakistan car sales soar 69% YoY in December

Car sales in Pakistan surged 69% to 9,820 units in December 2024 as compared to the same month of the last year,...

Updated 14 Jan, 2025 11:51pm

Pakistan

Imposing pickup trucks symbolise country's power gulf

KARACHI: In country’s largest city, cars inch forward in bumper-to-bumper traffic. But some seamlessly carve...

Published 21 Dec, 2024 06:24am

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Forget FY24

In 2021, buckling under the pressure of a rising import bill, soaring inflation, and shrinking reserves, the State...

Published 12 Dec, 2024 08:37am

Business & Finance

SUVs/EVs: FBR chairman briefs Senate body on chargeability of FED

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Rashid Mahmood Langrial on Wednesday informed that Ministry of ...

Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:23am

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Pakistan’s first electric SUV Seres 3 unveiled

KARACHI: Regal Automobiles Industries Limited, a trailblazer in Pakistan’s automotive sector, has made history ...

Published 02 Dec, 2024 06:04am

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Cars on the cards

A 50 percent increase in volumes should have automobile assemblers writing self-congratulatory notes to themselves,...

Published 22 Nov, 2024 09:06am

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Don’t bury the Lede

The shrinking of the automobile market for newly assembled vehicles is almost palpable and can be felt (by...

Published 21 Oct, 2024 09:12am

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Autos: It’s not over

In a great display of resilience, automobile sales have remained consistently strong on May 24 after delivering a...

Published 21 Jun, 2024 08:59am

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Misery meets company

If the worthy reader too cannot keep up with the barrage of news on price cuts being offered by various automobile...

Published 20 May, 2024 08:49am

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Lamborghini posts record 2023 sales, helped by SUVs

MILAN: Italian sportscar manufacturer Lamborghini on Thursday reported record sales in 2023 with worldwide ...

Published 29 Mar, 2024 04:44am

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Autos: Unpromising!

In two more months, the automotive industry would have reached the half-way point into the fiscal year that is FY24,...

Published 16 Nov, 2023 08:39am

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Bad romance

In the last recorded quarter (Jun-23), none of the three listed automotive assemblers in Pakistan was in losses,...

Published 13 Oct, 2023 08:52am

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Autos: The scatter here is too great

The headlines haven’t changed—automobile volumes are down (in FY23, volumes shrank by 55 percent for passenger cars,...

Published 24 Aug, 2023 08:44am

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The reckoning

Automotive industry is large enough and auto OEMs are making enough profits for analysts to talk about it endlessly....

Published 18 Aug, 2023 08:38am

Business & Finance

India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Q1 profit nearly doubles

BENGALURU: India’s Mahindra and Mahindra on Friday reported a first-quarter profit that nearly doubled, surpassing...

Published 05 Aug, 2023 06:00am

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Siren song

Imagine for a moment, an industry whose market size has been halved within a span of a single year despite new ...

Published 04 Aug, 2023 08:18am

Business & Finance

MG HS Excite and 2.0 AWD: MG Pakistan to launch two new variants

LAHORE: MG Pakistan – a joint venture between SAIC, the number one Chinese and the sixth-largest global automobile...

Updated 25 Jul, 2023 08:00pm

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The rich and the resilient

Pricier cars becoming more uneconomical, mounting cost of borrowing at prevailing kibor rates close to 23 percent,...

Updated 13 Jul, 2023 10:11am

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Autos: Head-on collision

While March numbers would give pause and indicate there may still be ample demand in the market for newly assembled...

Published 11 May, 2023 09:01am

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India’s passenger vehicle sales up 26.7% in FY23

NEW DELHI: India’s passenger vehicles sales grew 26.7% in the fiscal year 2022-23, as chip shortages eased and...

Published 13 Apr, 2023 12:19pm

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Auto: Idle hands

The automotive market—including, passenger cars, light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and SUVs—has shrunk 43 percent...

Published 11 Apr, 2023 08:53am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 8	284.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 8	284.22
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 8	147.11
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 8	0.80
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 8	1.36
Euro to USD / Jul 8	1.17
UK LIBOR % / Jul 8	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 8	6,225.52
India Sensex / Jul 8	83,712.51
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 8	39,706.75
Nasdaq / Jul 8	20,418.46
Hang Seng / Jul 8	23,957.38
FTSE 100 / Jul 8	8,854.18
Dow Jones / Jul 8	44,240.76
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 8	24,206.91
France CAC40 / Jul 8	7,766.71

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 8	68.26
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 8	16,585
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 8	303,926
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 8	3,293.56
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 8	67.31
Petrol/Litre / Jul 9	266.79
Diesel/Litre / Jul 9	272.98

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Parmount Sp. / Jul 9 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	5.85 ▲ 0.69 (13.37%)
Habib Ins. / Jul 9 Habib Insurance Company Limited(HICL)	10.47 ▲ 1 (10.56%)
Kohinoor Energy / Jul 9 Kohinoor Energy Limited(KOHE)	21.18 ▲ 1.93 (10.03%)
First Treet Manuf / Jul 9 First Treet Manufacturing Modaraba(FTMM)	19.43 ▲ 1.77 (10.02%)
Kohinoor Mills / Jul 9 Kohinoor Mills Limited(KML)	82.01 ▲ 7.46 (10.01%)
Maqbool Tex. / Jul 9 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	47.54 ▲ 4.32 (10%)
Tandlianwala Sugar / Jul 9 Tandlianwala Sugar Mills Limited(TSML)	280.73 ▲ 25.52 (10%)
Tata Textile / Jul 9 Tata Textile Mills Limited(TATM)	234.71 ▲ 21.34 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 9 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	53.37 ▲ 4.85 (10%)
Arpak Int. / Jul 9 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	62.28 ▲ 5.66 (10%)

Stock	Price
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 9 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	16.02 ▼ -1.63 (-9.24%)
Hala Enterprise / Jul 9 Hala Enterprises Limited(HAEL)	24.54 ▼ -2.38 (-8.84%)
Masood Textile / Jul 9 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	62.10 ▼ -4.71 (-7.05%)
Ellcot Spinning / Jul 9 Ellcot Spinning Mills Limited(ELSM)	103.05 ▼ -7.52 (-6.8%)
JS Investments / Jul 9 JS Investments Limited(JSIL)	26.15 ▼ -1.55 (-5.6%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Jul 9 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	18,555 ▼ -1094.09 (-5.57%)
Apna Microfin. / Jul 9 Apna Microfinance Bank Limited(AMBL)	14.51 ▼ -0.78 (-5.1%)
Paramount Mod / Jul 9 First Paramount Modaraba(FPRM)	9 ▼ -0.45 (-4.76%)
Sanghar Sugar / Jul 9 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	50.45 ▼ -2.48 (-4.69%)
Sardar Chemical / Jul 9 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	61.10 ▼ -2.93 (-4.58%)

Stock	Volume
TPL Properties / Jul 9 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	42,768,552 ▲ 0.35
Kohinoor Spining / Jul 9 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	35,103,823 ▲ 0.33
Treet Battery / Jul 9 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	19,661,591 ▲ 1.21
Hascol Petrol / Jul 9 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	18,462,234 ▲ 0.25
Treet Corp / Jul 9 Treet Corporation Limited(TREET)	10,621,297 ▲ 0.99
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 9 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	9,008,603 ▲ 0
Telecard Limited / Jul 9 Telecard Limited(TELE)	9,003,645 ▼ -0.07
Sui South Gas / Jul 9 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	8,741,158 ▼ -0.71
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 9 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	8,380,986 ▲ 1.12
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Jul 9 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	7,592,215 ▲ 0.46

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