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Weekly market inflation: Prices of essential kitchen items increase further

ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential kitchen items have witnessed a further increase during this week past against the...

Published 14 Jan, 2024 03:13am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation rises 1.36 WoW

ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the current week ended on January 11, 2024...

Published 13 Jan, 2024 05:38am

Business & Finance

Spain’s 12-month inflation falls to 3.1% in December

Spanish national consumer prices rose 3.1% in the 12 months through December, down from a 3.2% increase in the...

Published 12 Jan, 2024 03:20pm

Business & Finance

Hungary’s December CPI slows down to 5.5% y/y, below forecast

Hungarian headline inflation slowed to an annual +5.5% in December from +7.9% in November, below analysts’...

Published 12 Jan, 2024 12:34pm

Opinion

2024—Business winds and waves

Goodbye 2023. A year that was tentative, testing and turbulent. The world became more uncertain and businesses more...

Published 11 Jan, 2024 06:15am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The number of misses is rising exponentially

“Eggs have become very expensive.” “Everything has, the Sensitive Price Index is over 42 percent and the...

Published 10 Jan, 2024 05:22am

BR Research

PKR to appreciate?

The currency market has been moving smoothly for the past month because the PKR is stable in both the interbank and...

Updated 09 Jan, 2024 11:33am

BR Research

Cement: Not enough!

Sluggish domestic construction would suggest very little cement is sold in the market. Numbers indicate such an...

Published 08 Jan, 2024 07:42am

Business & Finance

At 4.1%, French inflation rises as expected in December

PARIS: French December consumer prices rose in line with expectations, preliminary data from the national statistics...

Published 04 Jan, 2024 01:30pm

BR Research

CY23: disaster, stability, and hope

After all that’s said or done, the fact of the matter is that the bleeding has stopped under the caretaker setup....

Updated 04 Jan, 2024 12:07pm

BR Research

Startup ecosystem 2023

The year 2021 was a defining moment for tech firms, with significant global expansion. The trend continued through...

Published 03 Jan, 2024 09:01am

Opinion

Outlook 2024 – II

Increasing bank lending should to be the next move. The ratio of advances to deposits should increase from present...

Updated 03 Jan, 2024 05:59am

Editorials

Inflation is rightly regarded as costly

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released the following data for the last month of 2023: (i) consumer...

Updated 03 Jan, 2024 02:48pm

BR Research

Inflation: Throwing gas on fire

Inflation is not coming down. The headline number stood at 29.7 percent in December 2023 – slightly higher than...

Updated 02 Jan, 2024 11:39am

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

Markets

US Treasuries: Ten-year yields end 2023 slightly higher

NEW YORK: Benchmark US 10-year Treasury yields ended 2023 higher year-over-year as investors digested weak economic...

Published 02 Jan, 2024 05:21am

Markets

Pakistan’s headline inflation reading clocks in at 29.7% in December

Reading is marginally higher than official estimates that put CPI reading in range of 27.5-28.5%

Updated 01 Jan, 2024 07:51pm

Business & Finance

BMP underscores need for revisiting economic policies

LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry’s Businessmen Panel (BMP) has stressed the...

Updated 01 Jan, 2024 06:51am

Markets

Oil prices set to end year 10pc lower

LONDON: Oil prices are set to end 2023 about 10 percent lower after two years of gains as geopolitical concerns,...

Published 30 Dec, 2023 06:28am

SBP terms FY23 ‘extraordinarily challenging’

KARACHI: The fiscal year 2023 was extraordinarily challenging, with a host of external and domestic shocks,...

Updated 30 Dec, 2023 08:16pm

‘Insecurity’ persists: Q3 business expectations rise 42pc against Q2: Gallup

KARACHI: Largely negative about their ongoing prospects, the country’s business owners have started gaining...

Updated 30 Dec, 2023 04:19pm

Business & Finance

Higher markup payments challenge persists: MoF

ISLAMABAD: The challenge of higher markup payments persists, so stated the Finance Ministry while emphasizing both...

Published 28 Dec, 2023 04:52am

Business & Finance

Singapore Nov core inflation slows to 3.2% y/y

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s key consumer price gauge slowed to 3.2% in November on the year, in line with expectations,...

Published 26 Dec, 2023 12:14pm

Opinion

The challenge of rising inflation

This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed “Some important economic policy questions” published by the newspaper...

Published 24 Dec, 2023 04:00am

Business & Finance

Inflation likely to escalate, warns economist

KARACHI: In Pakistan general inflation is constantly soaring, already surpassing almost 45% and it is expected to go...

Published 24 Dec, 2023 04:00am

SPI-based weekly inflation soars 42.60pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended 21st December 2023, increased by 42.60...

Updated 23 Dec, 2023 12:41pm

Business & Finance

Japan inflation slows to 2.5% in November as energy bills drop

TOKYO: Japanese consumer inflation slowed to 2.5 percent year-on-year in November, down from 2.9 percent the...

Published 22 Dec, 2023 11:44am

Opinion

Some important economic policy questions

The first important policy question facing policymakers is how much role aggregate demand plays in determining...

Published 22 Dec, 2023 05:22am

Editorials

If PSX sneezes, economy need not catch a cold

EDITORIAL: That PSX (Pakistan Stock Exchange) is on a roller coaster ride is a fact. The way the market moved up in...

Published 22 Dec, 2023 05:22am

Opinion

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

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

Published 20 Dec, 2023 06:22pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 15	278.43
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 15	278.23
USD to Japanese Yen / May 15	154.15
USD to Swiss Franc / May 15	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / May 15	1.27
Euro to USD / May 15	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 15	5308.15
India Sensex / May 15	72987.03
Tokyo Nikkei / May 15	38630.19
Nasdaq / May 15	16742.39
Hang Seng / May 15	19161.63
FTSE 100 / May 15	8445.80
Dow Jones / May 15	39908
Germany DAX 30 / May 15	18869.36

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 15	78.99
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 15	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 15	209191
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 15	2388.85
Cotton US¢/pound / May 15	76.16
Petrol/Litre / May 16	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

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

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

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

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