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unemployment rate

Pakistan’s quiet jobs crisis

Published 22 Jun, 2026 05:36am

Pakistan’s economic stabilization has come largely through contractionary policy: tighter spending, higher interest...

Contesting finance minister’s narrative

Updated 12 Jun, 2026 07:47am

Growth rate for the outgoing fiscal year has been estimated at 3.7 percent, a rate lower than the budgeted 4.2...

Economic Survey: Pakistan’s unemployment rose to 7.1%

Published 11 Jun, 2026 08:00pm

Pakistan’s unemployment rate rose to 7.1% in 2024-25, up from 6.3% a year earlier, even as the country’s economy...

Fed leaves rates unchanged, sticks with single cut in 2026 despite higher inflation

Published 19 Mar, 2026 12:45am

The dollar pared its earlier gains, with the dollar index last up 0.27%. U.S. Treasury yields also pared gains

EDITORIAL: A labour market under pressure

Updated 28 Nov, 2025 07:44am

EDITORIAL: Released after a significant gap of four years by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the latest...

Revitalisation of industry urged to check joblessness

Published 27 Nov, 2025 07:44am

KARACHI: Mian Zahid Hussain, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum & All Karachi Industrial...

Rate of unemployment rises in country

Published 26 Nov, 2025 07:35am

ISLAMABAD: In a troubling sign for the nation’s growing economic instability, Pakistan’s unemployment crisis has...

Pakistan Economic Survey fails to calculate unemployment rate for current year

Updated 10 Jun, 2025 10:44am

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Survey 2024-25 failed to calculate the unemployment rate for the current year and instead...

Tariff situation undoubtedly impacting US economy

Published 10 Mar, 2025 05:58am

The US economy added 151,000 jobs, but the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%. This is a key economic indicator for the...

PBS conducts first digital census: Around 7.8pc of total population unemployed

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 09:29am

ISLAMABAD: Around 7.8 percent (187,359,79 population) of the total population (241,499,431) of the country is...

Extremely high unemployment rate

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 07:04am

The digital Population and Housing Census of 2023 conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up...

Pasha says concerned at current unemployment rate

Updated 10 Feb, 2025 03:44pm

ISLAMABAD: “Poverty rate has risen to 44 percent and inflation is still in double digits.” Dr Hafeez Pasha, former...

Panel informed: Unemployment rate stands at 6.3pc

Published 15 Nov, 2024 06:20am

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel was informed on Thursday that the unemployment rate in the country stands at 6.3...

Leveraging private sector to empower Pakistan’s youth

Published 03 Sep, 2024 07:10am

Over the past couple weeks, I had the privilege of visiting some of Pakistan’s leading universities, digital ...

Italy May unemployment rate stable at 6.8%, but 17,000 jobs lost in month

Published 02 Jul, 2024 02:52pm

ROME: Italy’s unemployment rate was stable at 6.8% in May, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Tuesday,...

Trends in unemployment

Updated 22 Jun, 2024 07:28am

EDITORIAL: One of the most ignored contributors to the unemployment rate – which stands at 6.3 percent, according...

Unemployment rate stands at 6.3pc

Published 12 Jun, 2024 06:51am

ISLAMABAD: With 4.51 million unemployed population, the rate of unemployment in Pakistan stands at 6.3 percent, the...

Dollar drops after US job data

Published 04 May, 2024 05:48am

NEW YORK: The dollar fell to a three-week low against the yen on Friday after data showed that US jobs growth slowed...

Fed still sees three rate cuts in 2024 amid sticky inflation, stronger economy

Published 20 Mar, 2024 11:13pm

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, but policymakers indicated they still...

Europe’s STOXX 600 logs weekly gains

Published 09 Mar, 2024 04:59am

PARIS: Europe’s main stock indices were flat on Friday, but notched strong gains over the week that saw record...

Global unemployment seen rising modestly in 2024: UN labour body

Published 10 Jan, 2024 05:33pm

GENEVA: The global unemployment rate is expected to inch up to 5.2% this year primarily because of a rise in...

Outlook 2024-I

Published 02 Jan, 2024 05:21am

Global perspective has recently changed as economies have shown to be more resilient than experts had anticipated....

The giant ship of China’s economy will continue to cleave the waves

Published 20 Dec, 2023 06:22pm

Since the beginning of this year, the China’s economy has been moving forward, overcoming obstacles and showing a...

‘Green jobs for women, youth are need of the hour’

Published 12 Aug, 2023 06:26am

LAHORE: “Currently, 64 percent of Pakistan population is younger than 30 years of age. The country now has more...

The youth bulge

Updated 04 Jul, 2023 05:50am

The high rate of population growth of Pakistan, among the highest in the world, has led to the emergence of a large...

Unemployment rate fell to 6.3pc in FY21

Updated 09 Jun, 2023 08:59am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in 2020-2021 from 6.9 per cent in 2018-2019, according...

Slower US job growth expected in April; unemployment rate seen rising to 3.6%

Published 05 May, 2023 09:32am

WASHINGTON: US employers likely hired the fewest workers in nearly 2-1/2 years in April as the cumulative and...

World Bank estimates fall in GDP per capita income to $1,399

Updated 15 Apr, 2023 08:33pm

Says poverty will inevitably increase with pressures from weak labour markets and high inflation

Big rise in poverty, unemployment

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 07:11am

The current combination of various negative factors is likely to lead to a big exponential jump in the number of...

Fed delivers another big rate hike; Powell vows to 'keep at it'

Updated 22 Sep, 2022 04:46am

WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell vowed on Wednesday that he and his fellow policymakers would "keep...

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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 20	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 20	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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