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Karachi: STOCK brokers are once again under the spotlight. The apex regulator Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has prepared and forwarded to various stakeholders a concept paper that spells [...]

Karachi: Positives, both on the economic front and in the banking business, are rekindling banks' interest in consumer financing. Between July-November 2013, banks' consumer financing rose to Rs13.8 billion from [...]

Karachi: Our economy, predominantly agrarian and rural, is trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty engendered by landlessness, or petty holdings with low yields, dwindling farm output, overexploitation of groundwater [...]

Karachi: GOLD, as an investment, has had a horrid year and will probably continue to disappoint investors next year. But Asian consumers are unperturbed, as they see the sharp decline [...]

Karachi: WHEN it comes to agricultural financing by banks for value addition business, rural Sindh remains at the receiving end. Generally, banks do not finance value addition-related projects in sectors [...]

Karachi: Economic conditions after the 2008 financial crisis have taken a turnaround in most countries in the past six months. The US has avoided the fiscal cliff, while the Eurozone's [...]

Karachi: As always, after the elections, both markets and the economy are tested with harsh ground realities and economic challenges. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government is not immune from [...]

Karachi: AUSTRALIAN Treasurer Wayne Swan will eschew European-style austerity as a stronger currency slows growth, wagering the government can win a September 14 election fought on jobs and absorb the [...]

Karachi: THE gain of one stock broker is sometimes the loss of another, which is why market participants have a penchant to disagree. Yet, when it comes to Pakistan Muslim [...]

Karachi: In a typical boardroom, the CEO's attention often remains glued at statistics including return on investment, earnings per shares, or the growth forecasts. Staff members contributing towards these dense [...]

Karachi: THE recently-released data on large-scale manufacturing showing 2.13 per cent growth in the July-December period, and 21 per cent gain in the Karachi Stock Exchange-100 Index in less than [...]

Karachi: TWO kinds of middle-class Americans are struggling today -- people who can't find any work or enough work, and full-timers who can't seem to get ahead. Democrats and Republicans [...]

Karachi: Finally, the renewable energy resources seem to be making a footprint, albeit with little impact on the troubled energy sector that is pulling down gross domestic product by over [...]

Karachi: It is well documented that the effectiveness of employment, human resource development (HRD) and technical vocational education training (TVET) policies are crucially linked with the availability of accurate information [...]

Karachi: IN an environment of otherwise growing consumerism, it is relieving to note that a large number of citizens are saving and investing in the state-run National Savings Schemes, despite [...]

Karachi: Gold IN the New York market, gold fell on October 18 as weaker US equities and uncertainty over the commitment of Germany and France to battle the euro zone [...]

Karachi: With elections approaching, the PPP-led coalition government has directed its economic managers to urgently come up with new economic numbers especially those relating to growth, inflation and poverty. Since [...]

Karachi: GOING by the current performance of the economy, the external sector outlook, fiscal deficit and energy crisis would continue to challenge problem-solving skills of the economic managers as they [...]

Karachi: THE State Bank has reduced borrowing cost by cutting its key policy rate. The purpose is to revive private investment to 'break the economy out of its slow-growth mode' [...]

Karachi: It is said that entrepreneurship is born of a moment of epiphany, when a visionary identifies a void in the market that urgently needs to be plugged. That would [...]

Karachi: GOING by the emerging macro indicators, it seems that the hard times for the economy will not be over any time soon despite a few marked positive trends. The [...]

Karachi: WHILE India's external trade is soaring with both exports and imports registering impressive growth, the country's ports sector continues to languish, resulting in huge wastage and delays. The country's [...]

Karachi: Pakistan has had seven previous petroleum policies over the last two decades, with each successive policy providing more incentives to potential investors. The crude oil production meets only about [...]

Karachi: Like a chameleon, Hudiara drain changes along its length: the colours of its waters and even the smell changes. As it flows by a dyeing unit on the outskirts [...]

Karachi: THE much hyped Liquefied Natural Gas import plans are getting murkier. Taken in hand over four years ago by the government for limiting the chronic energy crisis in the [...]

Karachi: THE Chairman Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan said last week that there were three million small and medium enterprises in the country, and that there was a need [...]

Karachi: THE IMF suggestion made last week that the interest rate be hiked to contain inflation appears to be puzzling, coming as it does at a time when the rate [...]

Karachi: Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry is currently under spotlight due to more than 150 deaths in Punjab province, caused by a drug produced by one of its member companies. A batch [...]

Karachi: THE Pakistan equity markets produced a negative return of six per cent in 2011 and already into the first month of the New Year, the shares are still sinking. [...]

Karachi: ECONOMIC dividends of democracy accruing to the electorate do not appear too impressive as the representative Gilani government enters an expected election year. Despite their distaste for the popular [...]

Karachi: Economic activists are an intriguing bunch. Every few seasons, they converge upon some iconic location and raise a great deal of hullabaloo. Their objectives are often vague, while their [...]

Karachi: AT the current pace of inflow, the country might end up with more than $12 billion remittances this fiscal year. However, the government has yet not come out with [...]

Karachi: As the country's electricity mix has tilted heavily towards expensive thermal power -- increasing consumer tariff by almost 100 per cent in just 18 months -- focus is shifting [...]

Karachi: HUNGER, malnutrition and rising food prices have become major global problems. The causes are not difficult to see. Investment in agriculture has been declining for 30 years in developing [...]

Karachi: THE State Bank policy rate cut by 150 bps to 12 per cent for October-November remains two per cent above the current core inflation rate at 10 per cent. [...]

Karachi: THE one and a half per cent cut in the State Bank of Pakistan's key policy rate on October 8 has brought down inter-bank interest rates, spurred activity in [...]

Karachi: At a time when the money market players are expecting further decline in the benchmark discount rate, the local equity market has so far ignored this view of the [...]

Karachi: The government has formally announced its decision to end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme that has remained in limbo since August 2010 because of Pakistan's failure to carry [...]

Karachi: THE market expects a further cut in the State Bank's policy rate at the end of this month amidst mounting concerns haunting investors as well as policymakers over anemic [...]

Karachi: Pakistan assured the world to do whatever it takes to reduce poverty to 13 per cent as envisaged by the Millennium Development Goal in 15 years, ending 2015. Currently, [...]