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Hafeez directs for smooth wheat, sugar supply at reasonable prices

He also urged the provincial governments to continue taking necessary steps to ensure provision of basic items at affordable prices across the country.

Published 18 Jan, 2021 11:38pm

Business & Finance

SBP Partners with FBR and PBS to Harmonize Trade Data

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to harmonize exports and imports data in collaboration with the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

Published 18 Jan, 2021 03:11pm

Business & Finance

COVID-19 slowdown bites Pakistan’s cement exports

In the first six months of FY20-21 (July-December 2020) cement exports were down 1.6pc YoY to $142.927mn from $145.26mn.

Published 18 Jan, 2021 03:08pm

Pakistan

Exports increase 9.7pc to Rs1.97 trillion in H1

The exports during July-December (2020-21) were recorded at Rs1,978,764 million, showing an increase of 9.7 percent.

Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:19pm

Markets

Prices of essential kitchen items continue witnessing upward trend

ISLAMABAD: Prices of essential kitchen items have continued witnessing an upward trend, revealed a survey conducted...

Published 17 Jan, 2021 04:13am

Markets

KCA cuts cotton spot rate by Rs100 to Rs10600

KARACHI: The Spot Rate Committee of the Karachi Cotton Association on Saturday has decreased the spot rate by Rs 100...

Published 17 Jan, 2021 04:13am

Business & Finance

July-Dec 2020-2021: Mobile phones’ import increases by 52.37pc

ISLAMABAD: Mobile phones’ import witnessed an increase of 52.37 percent in the first half (July-Dec) of fiscal ...

Published 17 Jan, 2021 04:13am

Editorials

Covid-19 impact

EDITORIAL: A special report by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), which gives a data driven evaluation of the...

Updated 17 Jan, 2021 04:59am

Pakistan

Footwear exports decrease by 8.66pc in 5 months

Exports of leather footwear decreased by 9.13 percent as it went down from $43.750 million last year to $48.147 million during the current year.

Published 09 Jan, 2021 07:25pm

Pakistan

Weekly inflation witnesses nominal increase of 0.06pc

The weekly SPI with base year 2015-16=100 is covering 17 urban centers and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.

Published 09 Jan, 2021 07:23pm

‘Digital’ step to help contain inflation: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the digital system launched by the government to monitor...

Published 09 Jan, 2021 02:47am

Business & Finance

PBS Survey validates sharp V-Shaped recovery in COVID: Umar

“The positive things validated by the PBS report on COVID are: very large number of households confirming that they got support from government through Ehsaas programme, secondly the sharp V shaped recovery which resulted in almost all job losses being recovered in a few months,” he said in a tweet post.

Published 08 Jan, 2021 01:00pm

Trade deficit widens by 32.04pc to $2.683bn in Dec

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit widened by 32.04 percent to $2.683 billion in December 2020 compared to $2.032...

Updated 08 Jan, 2021 03:20am

Well-being of people: PBS shares results of survey on Covid-19 impact

ISLAMABAD: A survey of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) revealed that in Pakistan 35 percent of population which...

Updated 08 Jan, 2021 03:24am

Pakistan

Sports goods exports fall 14.03pc in 5 months

Pakistan exported sport goods worth $108.300 million during July-November (2020-21).

Published 06 Jan, 2021 06:56pm

Pakistan

Pakistan earns $121.890 million from export of travel services in four months

The personal travel services decreased by 27.54 percent, from US $ 167.264 million last year to US $ 121.200 million during July-October (2020-21).

Published 05 Jan, 2021 06:56pm

Pakistan

Pakistan earns $80 million from export of engineering goods

Among the engineering goods, the exports of electric fans increased by 15.54 percent by growing from $8.690 million to $10.040 million.

Published 04 Jan, 2021 07:15pm

Pakistan

Electric fan exports increases 15.54% in 5 months

The exports of fan from the country during November 2020, were recorded at $1.463 million against the exports of $1.032 million in November 2019.

Published 02 Jan, 2021 12:37am

Business & Finance

Gold imports fall 44pc in 5 months

The exports during July-November (2020-21) were recorded at $9.747 billion against the exports of $9.536 billion in July-November (2019-20), showing growth of 2.21 percent according to PBS data.

Updated 27 Dec, 2020 01:56pm

Pakistan

Gold imports fall 44 percent in 5 months

On year-on-year basis, the gold imports into the country witnessed a decrease of 1.39 percent during the month of November 2020.

Published 23 Dec, 2020 06:56pm

Pakistan

POL import bill contracts 22.78pc to $3.946 billion in 5 months

The imports of all other petroleum group commodities also increased by 8.93 percent, the data revealed.

Published 22 Dec, 2020 07:13pm

Pakistan

Tea imports increase 26.72pc in 5 months

The overall food imports into the country increased by 44.53 percent from $2088.960 million last year to $3019.072 million during the current fiscal year.

Published 19 Dec, 2020 08:47pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan's LSMI Output Increase 6.6pc in October

Meanwhile, the overall output of LSMI increased by 5.46 percent for July-October 2020-21 as compared to July-October 2019-20.

Updated 15 Dec, 2020 12:53pm

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI declines 0.26pc amid fall in food prices

During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 16 (31.37pc) items increased, 13 (25.49pc) items decreased and 22 (43.14pc) items remained constant.

Published 11 Dec, 2020 03:53pm

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI record increase of 0.24pc as price of food items rise

During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 13 (25.49%) items increased, 18 (35.29 %) items decreased and 20 (39.23%) items remained constant.

Published 21 Nov, 2020 10:27am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 20	278.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 20	278.10
USD to Japanese Yen / May 20	155.76
USD to Swiss Franc / May 20	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 20	1.27
Euro to USD / May 20	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 17	5303.27
India Sensex / May 17	73917.03
Nasdaq / May 17	16685.97
FTSE 100 / May 17	8420.26
Dow Jones / May 17	40003.59
Germany DAX 30 / May 17	18704.42
France CAC40 / May 17	8167.50
Tokyo Nikkei / May 20	39197.34

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 17	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 17	210562
Petrol/Litre / May 20	273.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 20	80.09
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 20	2436.84
Diesel/Litre / May 20	274.08

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 20 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 20 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 20 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 20 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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