Several developments suggest demand moderating measures are gaining traction and have improved the outlook for inflation, says Monetary Policy Committee
“After COVID the remittances have increased, due to decrease in Pakistanis travelling we are moving towards consumption-driven growth. Furthermore, the reduction in the interest rate and strengthening of Pakistani rupee has played a role in KSE-1000 companies showing record profit,” he said.
Net Interest Income (NII) recorded an increase of 7pc YoY i.e. Rs11.4 billion in spite of a sharp decline in interest rates. However, NII reported a decline of 2pc QoQ as repricing of assets reach its completion.
“TRG Pakistan’s prorated stake at closing, excluding any earn-out and prior to net debt adjustment at TRGIL, will be approximately Rs 21.5 billion,” it said.
The government has withdrawn a wide range of income tax exemptions to the emerging sectors and industries including IT sector; exemption on profit and gains derived by LNG terminal operators and terminal owners and exemption available to the Pakistan Mortgage Refinance Company under the Tax Laws (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2021.
The report was of the view that that the imports of goods are likely to increase higher then earlier expected as economic activity picks including rise in import of auto CKD/CBU, coal for cement, while pressure on account of import of machinery through TERF is also anticipated.
PSX witnessed four IPOs (including are preference share listing) during this year in spite of the COVID-19 outbreak, where the cumulative amount raised clocked in at Rs 8.4bn.
The IPOs were witnessed in sectors like steel, meat processing, telecom and chemicals.