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Energy prices take charge of WPI

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 13.9 percent for April 2024 was at a 39-month low. It should spell good news for...

Published 07 May, 2024 09:30am

BR Research

WPI: Much more than it shows

While the last two years have piled on a misery of historic proportions on retail prices, the seeds were sown a year...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 09:18am

Business & Finance

Expert throws light on recent inflation trends

LAHORE: Pakistan has witnessed a gradual decline in inflation for the third consecutive month, marking its lowest...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 05:29am

BR Research

WPI: Gas and power at the core

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for February 2024 clocked in at 18.66 percent – at a 31-month low, and surely comes...

Published 11 Mar, 2024 08:31am

Dec CPI inflation jumps 29.7pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.7 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Updated 02 Jan, 2024 09:54am

BR Research

Core inflation takes centrestage

National headline inflation expectedly cooled off from last month – clocking in at 26.89 percent year-on-year,...

Published 02 Nov, 2023 09:28am

BR Research

WPI: Non-food prices take over

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) registered another month-on-month increase – for the fourth month running – clocking...

Published 05 Oct, 2023 08:59am

Business & Finance

Sept CPI rises 4 percentage points to 31.4pc MoM

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 4 percentage points in September to 31.4 percent against the...

Published 03 Oct, 2023 06:02am

BR Research

Inflation 1, construction 0

The trajectory of cement prices amid lacklustre demand is hard to ignore. Latest numbers from Pakistan Bureau of...

Published 25 Sep, 2023 08:59am

BR Research

WPI – refusing to budge

Such are the times that a 24 percent year-on-year increase in wholesale price index (WPI) is being viewed as a...

Published 06 Sep, 2023 07:30am

Business & Finance

Aug CPI inflation soars 27.4pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 27.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in ...

Published 02 Sep, 2023 06:30am

BR Research

Wholesale price hike: Far from over

If petroleum does not do it, electricity will. That has been the story of wholesale prices for a while as WPI index...

Published 04 Aug, 2023 08:25am

Business & Finance

July CPI inflation rises 28.3pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 28.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis in July...

Published 02 Aug, 2023 06:47am

Business & Finance

June CPI inflation rises to 29.4pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in June...

Published 04 Jul, 2023 05:07am

Opinion

FY23: Uncovering drivers of economic performance

The National Account numbers for FY2023 have been published and, unfortunately, they paint a truly dismal picture of...

Published 30 May, 2023 03:37am

Business & Finance

Food pushes inflation to record 36.4pc in April

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 36.4 per cent on a year-on-year basis in ...

Published 03 May, 2023 06:35am

Business & Finance

India’s March wholesale inflation eases to 30-month low on easing input prices

NEW DELHI: India’s annual wholesale-price based inflation (WPI) eased to the lowest in nearly 30 months, as input...

Published 17 Apr, 2023 01:31pm

BR Research

WPI signalling more retail inflation

The record high CPI reading in March 2023 was a foregone conclusion back in August and September 2022 – when the...

Published 14 Apr, 2023 08:55am

BR Research

Inflation: Wheels are coming off

Just when you think you have reached the peak – another one stares in your eyes. Pakistan’s headline national CPI...

Published 02 Mar, 2023 08:55am

Business & Finance

Feb CPI jumps 31.5pc, highest rate in nearly 50 years

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 31.5 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Published 02 Mar, 2023 06:23am

Jan food prices rise 43pc YoY

CPI-based inflation hits 48-year high

Updated 02 Feb, 2023 09:10am

BR Research

Wholesale prices ease off a high base

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly came down for the third straight month –recorded at 28 percent for...

Updated 06 Dec, 2022 10:09am

Opinion

Inflation: the fault is in ourselves

Inflation has reached politically untenable levels in the ongoing year, considerably higher than the high rates...

Published 05 Dec, 2022 06:09am

Nov CPI inflation jumps 23.8pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 23.8 percent on a year-on-year basis in...

Published 02 Dec, 2022 06:41am

BR Research

WPI peaked – CPI maybe not!

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was seen peaking in August 2022, as highlighted in the space earlier. At 32.6 ...

Published 08 Nov, 2022 08:58am

Opinion

1Q: Economic performance

In our last article we had expressed the hope of potential turnaround in the economy. Some early data for the month...

Published 05 Oct, 2022 05:49am

Business & Finance

Sept CPI soars 23pc YoY, declines 1.2pc MoM

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 23.2 percent on year-on-year basis in September 2022 as...

Published 02 Oct, 2022 05:48am

Markets

Inflation in Pakistan expected to be over 26% in September: report

Food prices, weaker rupee and aftershocks of devastating floods to contribute to high CPI reading

Updated 19 Sep, 2022 04:57pm

BR Research

WPI shatters all records

SPI, CPI, or WPI. Take your pick. Records are being broken everywhere. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for August...

Published 07 Sep, 2022 08:40am

Opinion

The continuing drift

The trade data for the month of August has revealed continuing challenges to macroeconomic framework. It is shocking...

Published 07 Sep, 2022 04:13am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 9	278.20
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 9	278
USD to Japanese Yen / May 9	155.57
USD to Swiss Franc / May 9	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 9	1.25
Euro to USD / May 9	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 8	5187.67
Nasdaq / May 8	16302.76
Dow Jones / May 8	39056.39
India Sensex / May 9	72965.17
Tokyo Nikkei / May 9	38260.75
Hang Seng / May 9	18532.72
FTSE 100 / May 9	8363.71
Germany DAX 30 / May 9	18547.71

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 9	79.44
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 9	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 9	205075
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 9	2318.17
Cotton US¢/pound / May 9	79.20
Petrol/Litre / May 10	288.49

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 10 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 10 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 10 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 10 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 10 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 10 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 10 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 10 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 10 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 10 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 10 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 10 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 10 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 10 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 10 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 10 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 10 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 10 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 10 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 10 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 10 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 10 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 10 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 10 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 10 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 10 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 10 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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