[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ak Suzuki Motor Company Limited always endeavors to enhance profitability, sales and diversity in its operations by upgrading the existing…
Year: 2017
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]conomic experts identified that healthy sales of vehicles in Pakistan during fiscal year 2016-17 enabled the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)…
GBP/USD WEEKLY OVERVIEW Pound inched up 1% a one year high against the dollar after release of Consumers Price data…
PAKISTAN STOCKS END HIGHER AS FTSE, S&P REBALANCING PROVIDES TRIGGER Despite a volatile session, the Pakistan Stock Exchange ended in…
MARKET REVIEW The local bourse gained 1,386pts during the week continuing last week’s rally to close at 42,787, up by…
KSE-100 INDEX CLIMBS ON FOREIGN BUYING AND FTSE, S&P INCLUSION OF PAKISTANI STOCKS SUMMARY The week ended higher and remained…
KEY NEWS HELP INDEX CLIMB; FTSE MOVE, BY-ELECTION LIKELY TO PUSH SENTIMENTS During the week ended 15th September 2017, the…
PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI TRUCK ART BEING PRESENTED IN A US MUSEUM: Across the globe, Every country has its culture and people…
FLYDUBAI CUTS FARES BY UP TO 50% Dubai: Budget carrier flydubai has slashed its fares across a number of routes,…
OIL EASES, BUOYED BY HOPES FOR ROBUST DEMAND Oil prices eased on Thursday, but held on to most of their…
SINGAPORE MARINE FUELS SALES HIT RECORD Sales of marine fuels in August at Asia’s biggest ship fuelling port of Singapore…
WEEK-ON-WEEK: SPI FALLS 0.27PC The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended September 14, 2017 registered a decrease of…
AUGUST WHOLESALE INFLATION SPIKES TO 4-MONTH HIGH OF 3.24% India’s wholesale price inflation (WPI) rose to 3.24 per cent from…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]UCCESS ALWAYS CREATES NEW REALITIES ONLY THE FAIRY STORY ENDS “THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.” Success always obsoletes the very…
UBER JOINS INDEPENDENCE CUP 2017, AS OFFICIAL TRANSPORT PARTNER Uber, the international smartphone app that seamlessly connects riders to drivers,…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is one of the best known lagging indicators. The consumer price index expresses the current prices of a basket…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he balance of trade compares the value of a country’s exports of goods and services against its imports. When exports…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Issac John /dubai[/box] Dubai has set a target of 20 million visitors by 2020, which would…
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]ibor rate is the average interest rate at which term deposits are offered between prime banks in the Pakistani wholesale…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Chia Yan Min Economics Correspondent[/box] It ranks 11th out of 130 nations, having developed 73% of…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford and David Kreps, University of Salford[/box] [dropcap]D[/dropcap]eutsche Bank CEO John Cryan…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Julian Friedland, Trinity College Dublin[/box] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the 1990s, economists indulged heady hopes that globalisation would raise…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org[/box] [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ondon, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Loizos Heracleous, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick[/box] [dropcap]A[/dropcap]pple is taking a calculated risk with the…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Project Syndicate[/box] [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ondon – This autumn, the International Monetary…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]emographic is the study of a population based on factors such as age, race and sex, among others. Governments, corporations…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nflation is a sustained increase in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy. When the…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n interest rate is the cost of borrowing money, or conversely, the income earned from lending money. Interest rates are…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Steve Keen, Kingston University[/box] There are none so blind as those who will not see. [dropcap]T[/dropcap]his…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jeff Desjardins Founder and editor of Visual Capitalist[/box] [dropcap]J[/dropcap]ust a month ago, it was revealed that…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Vasant Dhar Professor, Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science.[/box] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]ork is not…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Charlotte Edmond Formative Content[/box] [dropcap]E[/dropcap]ducation may be the passport to the future, but for all the…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Taku Tamaki, Loughborough University[/box] [dropcap]N[/dropcap]orth Korea’s nuclear test, by far its largest, came less than a…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University[/box] [dropcap]N[/dropcap]o sooner had Hurricane Harvey’s record rains receded from…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Pete Robertson, Edinburgh Napier University[/box] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he claim that Eskimos have 50 words for snow may be…
AFFORDABILITY & ACCESS TO FINANCE [dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan has a housing backlog of almost 10 million units (source: ABAD’s Real Estate Research,…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is an old saying ‘construction is the mother of many industries’ and it seems true even today. To begin…
[dropcap]G[/dropcap]wadar port is equally attracting the interest of the local and foreign investors. The government has recently decided to set…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he cost of construction rose 10 percent in the outgoing year due to increase in cement and steel bar prices,…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]bout one-tenth of Pakistan’s total population lives in Karachi. Its population is growing by around 6 percent per annum due…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he real estate sector in Pakistan is an important sector of the economy. Pakistan spends about $5.2 billion on construction…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he housing finance market is among the most important in the economy. It accounts for a sizeable portion of the…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ement is the essential constituent of construction activity. Presently, the total installed capacity of 28 cement plants is 17.312 million…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he cement sector registered a cumulative growth of 45 percent in the month of July 2017 compared to the corresponding…
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]arachi is fast becoming a concrete jungle with the construction of high-rise buildings. Previously, multi-storey buildings were constructed in old…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]isha Steel Mills Limited (ASML) is one of the largest private sector investments in the value added flat-rolled steel industry.…
GROWTH TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF ISLAMIC HOME FINANCING [dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter the steps taken by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he burgeoning population and rapid urbanization calls for more and affordable housing schemes in Pakistan. Constituting 2 percent of the…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ponsored by reputed Yunus Brothers Group – one of the largest export houses of Pakistan, Lucky Cement Limited currently has…
Interview with Mr Ahmed Owais Thanvi — Managing Director, King’s Group Builders and Developers PAGE: WHAT CAN YOU TELL US…
Introduction of single window operation may simplifies its tax system Interview with Syed Muhammad Talha – Director, Safe Mix Concrete…
PAKISTAN MARKET INDICATORS EXCHANGE RATES CURRENCY ACTIVITY Friday 28-Jul Friday 4-Aug Friday 11-Aug Friday 18-Aug Friday 25-Aug Friday 8-Sep DOLLAR…
PAKISTAN: EXPORT OF CEMENT AND CLINKER Financial year Cement Clinker Total Exports % age Incr/(Decr) Export Breakup Afghanistan Via Land…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nternational adepts revealed that the international steel production grew to 977.32 million ton during the first 7-month of 2017, up…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan’s manufacturing sector constitutes as the second largest sector of the country’s economy contributing 13.5 percent to GDP and generating…
GBP/USD WEEKLY OVERVIEW On Tuesday pound surged above $1.30 for the first time in more than three weeks in the…
US SHARES DIP AS HURRICANE IRMA APPROACHES FLORIDA Wall Street stocks dipped early Friday as a monster-sized Hurricane Irma ripped…
MARKET REVIEW Bears gained a foothold in the market in the week as the index returned 1.04%WoW to close at…
STOCKS RECOVER AS SENTIMENTS IMPROVE AFTER HBL SETTLEMENT AND FOREIGN BUYING SUMMARY The market remained under tense situation last week…
INDEX RECORDS MARGINAL INCREASE; MARKET TO REMAIN RANGE BOUND During the week ended on 8th September 2017, the performance of…
PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN STARTUP CUP 2017 IS BACK WITH $2.5 million PRIZE MONEY: Startup Cup has presence in 60 countries, has…
UAE’S NON-OIL PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH AT 30-MONTH HIGH Dubai: The Emirates NBD Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the UAE rose…
CRUDE DIPS, GASOLINE SPIKES AS FLOODS KNOCK OUT QUARTER OF US REFINERIES Oil prices dipped on Wednesday but gasoline spiked…
BALTIC MAIN INDEX GAINS NEARLY 3PC ON STRONGER VESSEL ACTIVITY The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index rose nearly 3…
PAKISTAN GETS $230 MN LOANS TO CUSHION FOREX RESERVES Pakistan has received two short-term loans worth $230 million from international…
STARTUPS, UNLISTED COMPANIES ON BLACK MONEY RADAR, PROBE ON 200 ENTITIES MUMBAI: Startups and unlisted subsidiaries of some major Indian…
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ANAGING ONESELF: IDENTIFY STRENGTHS IT TAKES FAR LESS ENERGY TO MOVE FROM FIRST-RATE PERFORMANCE TO EXCELLENCE THAN IT DOES TO…
THE SMART SCHOOL DISTRIBUTES CASH PRIZES AMONGST THE HIGH ACHIEVERS OF MATRIC EXAMINATIONS Pakistan’s largest school franchise school network, The…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is one of the best known lagging indicators. The consumer price index expresses the current prices of a basket…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he balance of trade compares the value of a country’s exports of goods and services against its imports. When exports…
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]ibor rate is the average interest rate at which term deposits are offered between prime banks in the Pakistani wholesale…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]emographic is the study of a population based on factors such as age, race and sex, among others. Governments, corporations…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nflation is a sustained increase in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy. When the…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n interest rate is the cost of borrowing money, or conversely, the income earned from lending money. Interest rates are…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Callum Brodie Formative Content[/box] [dropcap]Y[/dropcap]oung people feel that they’re not being listened to by global decision…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Charlotte Edmond Formative Content[/box] [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome countries have much larger shadow or unofficial economies than others. Greece’s…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John McKenna Formative Content[/box] [dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver had that moment of panic when your smartphone is down to…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Paul Goodwin, University of Bath[/box] [dropcap]S[/dropcap]atnav systems have been blamed for all kinds of motoring mishaps.…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ben Ashby, University of Bath[/box] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s fair to say parasites are generally bad for their hosts.…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Gregor Gall, University of Bradford[/box] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]orkers in two McDonald’s restaurants will make history on September 4…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dr Timothy Hodgetts Research Fellow in the Geopolitics of Wildlife Conservation, University of Oxford[/box] [dropcap]S[/dropcap]elf-driving cars…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Hayley Wright, Coventry University[/box] [dropcap]R[/dropcap]esearch into how we can keep our brains healthy as we age…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nicholas Chilton, University of Manchester[/box] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is an adage that says that data will expand to…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan’s banking sector is passing through a phase that is both challenging and exciting. While challenges emanate from low interest…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n Pakistan many of the businessmen suffer from this illusion that induction of technology can boost their business, they are…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite security concerns in Pakistan, the country has witnessed an influx of foreign retail brands. It is a fact that…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ig international car manufacturers are making their way into the Pakistani automobile industry after the current acceleration in the auto…
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne often finds negative stories about Pakistan, only because the local and global success stories are hardly shared. It is…