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IMF lowers GDP growth forecast to 2.6% for Pakistan

Says core inflation elevated at around 9%

Updated 19 May, 2025 03:31pm

Business & Finance

ADB to scale up food security support to $40bn by 2030

Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced on Sunday that it will expand its financial commitment to food and nutrition...

Published 04 May, 2025 06:11pm

Growth in Pakistan may stay broadly unchanged: IMF

ISLAMABAD: Growth for Pakistan is expected to remain broadly unchanged in fiscal year 2025, reflecting a 0.6...

Updated 02 May, 2025 02:20pm

Markets

Prices of essential kitchen items show mixed trend

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

Published 06 Apr, 2025 05:44am

Finance Division outlook: YoY LSM slump shows underlying weaknesses

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Division has warned that the year on year (YoY) decline in Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM)...

Updated 26 Mar, 2025 02:24pm

Markets

Prices of essential food items show mixed trend

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of essential food commodities, like live chicken/meat, sugar, flour, dates, pulses,...

Published 24 Mar, 2025 05:33am

Prices of essential kitchen items show declining trend

ISLAMABAD: The prices of the essential kitchen items have witnessed declining trend during this week past against...

Updated 23 Mar, 2025 09:21am

Markets

Peshawar: Prices of essential items remain steady

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities, including live chicken/meat, vegetables, dates, cooking oil/ghee,...

Published 17 Mar, 2025 05:29am

Prices of essential kitchen items show mixed trend

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

Updated 09 Mar, 2025 09:24am

Markets

FAO says global food commodity prices rise in Feb

ROME: Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the...

Published 09 Mar, 2025 05:17am

BR Research

Inflation plummets, but pain persists

Inflation continues its downward trajectory, with the headline number dropping to a nine-year low of 1.5 percent in...

Published 05 Mar, 2025 07:22am

Prices of essential food items become dearer

PESHAWAR: With the beginning of holy month of Ramazan, steep increase in prices of essential food items was...

Updated 03 Mar, 2025 08:40am

BR Research

At-Tahur Limited

At-Tahur Limited (PSX: PREMA) was incorporated in Pakistan as a public limited company in 2007. The company is...

Published 21 Feb, 2025 07:46am

Prices of essential food items remain high

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food items, like live chicken/meat, vegetables, pulses, flour, sugar, cooking oil/ghee...

Updated 10 Feb, 2025 09:15am

Business & Finance

Sugar, vegetable oils decline: World food commodity prices fall in January: FAO

ROME: Global food commodity prices fell in January, led by sharp declines in sugar and vegetable oils, the Food and...

Published 08 Feb, 2025 06:30am

BR Research

Inflation – the rise, the fall, the wait

The headline inflation nosedived to 2.4 percent—the lowest level since October 2015—down from 28.3 percent last...

Published 04 Feb, 2025 08:58am

World

Afghans complain of rising food prices as currency loses value

KABUL: Residents of the Afghan capital have complained of rising food prices as the local currency lost value...

Published 27 Jan, 2025 09:41pm

Editorials

Global food prices since the pandemic

EDITORIAL: Ordinarily a 2.1pc dip in world food commodity prices over the course of a year, as was the case in 2024...

Published 12 Jan, 2025 02:44am

Prices of essential food items show mixed trend

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of essential food commodities, like live chicken/meat, vegetables, pulses, flour and...

Updated 06 Jan, 2025 09:04am

Business & Finance

World food prices dip 2pc in 2024: FAO

PARIS: World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on...

Published 04 Jan, 2025 06:30am

Editorials

State of the economy

EDITORIAL: The December 2024 Economic Update and Outlook, a monthly publication uploaded on the Finance Division...

Updated 02 Jan, 2025 08:22am

BR Research

Food prices in 2024 – quite some respite

The year ending today provided a rare and much-needed respite for inflation-weary households in Pakistan,...

Published 31 Dec, 2024 09:12am

Markets

Prices of essential food items surge in retail market

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities, including live chicken/meat, vegetables, pulses, sugar, cooking...

Published 30 Dec, 2024 07:36am

Peshawar: prices of essential food items show mixed trend

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of essential food commodities was witnessed in the retail market. A weekly-survey...

Updated 11 Nov, 2024 09:13am

Markets

Global food prices reach 18-month high: FAO

PARIS: Global food prices rose in October to their highest level in 18 months, with a sharp increase in the cost of...

Published 09 Nov, 2024 06:36am

Business & Finance

World Bank expects oil glut to cause commodity price slump

WASHINGTON: Global commodity prices should fall to a five-year low next year thanks to a huge oil glut, the World...

Published 30 Oct, 2024 06:32am

Pakistan

Food prices in Punjab lower than in other provinces: Azma

LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari said on Tuesday that food prices are the lowest in Punjab compared...

Published 23 Oct, 2024 08:19am

Markets

Peshawar: prices of daily-use items show mixed trend

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of daily use items like vegetables, pulses, live chicken/meat, flour, sugar and ...

Published 14 Oct, 2024 07:15am

BR Research

Wholesale inflation: Multiyear low

Single-digit inflation is the talk of the town, and the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) joins the race like never...

Published 07 Oct, 2024 09:09am

Weekly SPI inflation up 0.44pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the week ended October 03, 2024 increased by 0.44 per...

Updated 05 Oct, 2024 02:43pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 19	281.83
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 19	281.63
USD to Japanese Yen / May 19	145.04
USD to Swiss Franc / May 19	0.84
Pound Sterling to USD / May 19	1.33
Euro to USD / May 19	1.12
UK LIBOR % / May 16	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 16	5,958.38
Nasdaq / May 16	19,211.10
Dow Jones / May 16	42,654.74
India Sensex / May 19	82,171.74
Tokyo Nikkei / May 19	37,498.63
Hang Seng / May 19	23,303.78
FTSE 100 / May 19	8,642.72
Germany DAX 30 / May 19	23,746.47
France CAC40 / May 19	7,867.04

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 16	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 16	288,151
Petrol/Litre / May 19	252.63
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 19	61.99
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 19	3,221.72
Diesel/Litre / May 19	254.64
Cotton US¢/pound / May 19	64.92

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Paramount Mod / May 19 First Paramount Modaraba(FPRM)	7.98 ▲ 0.86 (12.08%)
Dost Steels Ltd. / May 19 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	9.34 ▲ 1 (11.99%)
Abdullah Shah / May 19 Abdullah Shah Ghazi Sugar Mills Limited(AGSML)	6.18 ▲ 0.66 (11.96%)
Balochistan Glass / May 19 Baluchistan Glass Limited(BGL)	9.95 ▲ 1 (11.17%)
Beco Steel Ltd / May 19 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	10.14 ▲ 1 (10.94%)
LSE Ventures / May 19 LSE Ventures Limited(LSEVL)	10.52 ▲ 1 (10.5%)
Ghani Chemworld / May 19 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	10.62 ▲ 1 (10.4%)
Metro Steel / May 19 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	10.20 ▲ 0.95 (10.27%)
AN Textile Mills / May 19 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	14.37 ▲ 1.31 (10.03%)
Service Textile / May 19 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	16.80 ▲ 1.53 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
J.K.Spinning / May 19 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	54.97 ▼ -6.03 (-9.89%)
Equity Modaraba / May 19 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.11 ▼ -0.34 (-9.86%)
Olympia Mills / May 19 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	47.02 ▼ -4.55 (-8.82%)
Intermarket Securities / May 19 Intermarket Securities Limited(IMS)	51.38 ▼ -4.73 (-8.43%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / May 19 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9.17 ▼ -0.83 (-8.3%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / May 19 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	8.26 ▼ -0.74 (-8.22%)
Bhanero Textile / May 19 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	700.26 ▼ -59.74 (-7.86%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / May 19 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	46.13 ▼ -3.7 (-7.43%)
Diamond Ind. / May 19 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	23.16 ▼ -1.79 (-7.17%)
Bilal Fibres / May 19 Bilal Fibres Limited(BILF)	18.31 ▼ -1.37 (-6.96%)

Stock	Volume
Fauji Foods Ltd / May 19 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	60,601,551 ▲ 1.11
Cres.Star Ins. / May 19 Crescent Star Insurance Limited(CSIL)	20,056,727 ▲ 0.13
At-Tahur Ltd. / May 19 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	18,289,768 ▼ -3.7
Gul Ahmed / May 19 Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited(GATM)	15,459,424 ▲ 0.53
WorldCall Telecom / May 19 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	11,543,439 ▲ 0
K-Electric Ltd. / May 19 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	8,553,628 ▼ -0.01
Pak Petroleum / May 19 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	8,304,279 ▲ 3.36
Ghani Chemworld / May 19 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	7,904,089 ▲ 1
Agha Steel Ind. / May 19 Agha Steel Ind.Ltd(AGHA)	7,863,604 ▲ 0.61
Lotte Chemical / May 19 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	7,257,543 ▲ 0.58

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