News stories for Dr Omer Javed

Dr Omer Javed

Opinion

Inflation, monetary policy, borrowing costs, and debt sustainability

‘The start of this year is an eerie echo of 2021. A new variant of coronavirus has sent infections...

Published 21 Jan, 2022 05:27am

Opinion

Inflation and growth

While inflation has been caused primarily by the pandemic-led recession that fed into supply cuts, and the return of...

Published 14 Jan, 2022 06:50am

Opinion

CPTPP and Pakistan

Due to overall low economic institutional quality, recurring macroeconomic stabilization issues and lower market...

Published 07 Jan, 2022 06:22am

Opinion

2022: year of essential economic reform

There is a lot of spilt milk in terms of lost time to initiate meaningful, broad-based institutional, ...

Published 31 Dec, 2021 06:50am

Opinion

Turkey’s ‘new economic model’: any lessons for Pakistan?

Pakistan has seen its currency depreciate sizably during the ongoing tenure of this government; some justifiably to...

Updated 24 Dec, 2021 03:45pm

Opinion

Macroeconomic choices for 2022

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) increased policy rate by 1 percent (100 basis points) to 9.75 percent. This is the...

Published 17 Dec, 2021 04:30am

Opinion

Covid’s Omicron variant and some likely repercussions

‘The global risk from the new Omicron coronavirus variant is “very high”, the World Health Organization...

Updated 03 Dec, 2021 05:22am

Opinion

A tight macroeconomic policy stance and its repercussions

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is its latest monetary policy statement (MPS) increased policy rate by 150 basis points...

Published 26 Nov, 2021 05:15am

Opinion

COP26 left a lot to be desired

‘Many people around the world already consider the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow a...

Published 19 Nov, 2021 04:35am

Opinion

High commodity prices — what could have been done differently?

With Brent Crude prices at very low position of around $20 a barrel around the third week of April last year, and...

Published 12 Nov, 2021 04:46am

Opinion

Climate change crisis and COP26

'Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to...

Published 05 Nov, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

Supply chain crisis: balancing globalization and autarky

'The supply chain crisis threatening the global economy risks lasting at least another year unless governments step...

Published 29 Oct, 2021 05:05am

Opinion

Pakistan should leave IMF programme

Pakistan should come out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, pursue active economic diplomacy, and...

Updated 22 Oct, 2021 04:54pm

Opinion

Politics and Bretton Woods institutions

‘The “Doing Business” controversy has shaken confidence in the World Bank and the IMF. But it must not obscure...

Published 15 Oct, 2021 04:08am

Opinion

Supply chain crisis, imported inflation, and greater autarky

Prime Minister, Imran Khan reportedly indicated that inflationary pressures are mainly due to imported inflation, as...

Published 08 Oct, 2021 04:30am

Opinion

Dilemma facing IMF, and programme countries

The pandemic has seen international commodity prices, especially food prices, sky rocket; while oil prices also ...

Published 01 Oct, 2021 04:07am

Opinion

Rising stagflationary concerns

The world, including developing countries where food inflation is particularly on the higher side, is facing...

Published 24 Sep, 2021 04:40am

Opinion

Pandemic and a difficult economic situation of developing countries

‘Developing countries have been ravaged by a combination of the pandemic-driven health crisis, collapsing exports,...

Published 17 Sep, 2021 03:52am

Opinion

Dirty air, foreign aid, and climate funds

Burning of fossil fuel has had a significant role in exacerbating climate change crisis, the tipping point of which...

Published 10 Sep, 2021 04:41am

Opinion

Tackling air pollution

‘The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) shows that strong pollution policies pay back in additional years of life for...

Published 03 Sep, 2021 04:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 17	278.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 17	278.10
USD to Japanese Yen / May 17	155.67
USD to Swiss Franc / May 17	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 17	1.27
Euro to USD / May 17	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 17	5303.27
India Sensex / May 17	73917.03
Tokyo Nikkei / May 17	38787.38
Nasdaq / May 17	16685.97
Hang Seng / May 17	19535.61
FTSE 100 / May 17	8420.26
Dow Jones / May 17	40003.59
Germany DAX 30 / May 17	18704.42

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 17	79.59
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 17	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 17	210562
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 17	2386.18
Cotton US¢/pound / May 17	76.29
Petrol/Litre / May 18	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 18 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 18 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 18 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 18 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 18 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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