Liftoff: Modi’s space push for India counts on private players
Encouraged by high-profile successes elsewhere, India wants its private space companies to increase their share of the global launch market by fivefold within the...
Argentina to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars
Argentina will start to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars, the government announced Wednesday, a measure that aims to relieve the...
Oil rises on Saudi plan to deepen output cuts from July
Oil prices rose by more than $1 a barrel on Monday after top crude exporter Saudi Arabia pledged to cut production by a further...
The Finance Minister who cried Wolf
It is becoming harder and harder to believe Mr Dar’s claims given his history of being wrong.
Global rating downgrades deter foreign Investors from investing in Pakistani market
Writing for Express Tribune, author Faraz Ahmed explains that Pakistan's stock market has been facing a range of challenges for several years, including political...
Will AI be an economic blessing or curse? History offers clues
If medieval advances in the plough didn't lift Europe's peasants out of poverty, it was largely because their rulers took the wealth generated by...
Pakistan’s Economic Woes
by Abbas Murtaza Maken and Syed Shujaat Ahmed
The dearth of economic accountability and transparency in Pakistan means that the size of the parallel economy...
Brexit an ‘economic disaster’ for UK and German trade – DIHK
Brexit has been an "economic disaster" for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct...
Ahead of budget, is the FPCCI off tangent?
On 25th May 2021, four of the country’s leading newspapers carried an appeal to the Honorable Prime Minister. Unlike the annual pre-budget industry lobbying,...
SBP likely to yield to IMF demands, raising interest rates again
KARACHI: According to analysts, the central bank of Pakistan is likely to raise its key interest rate again in response to persistently high inflation,...
Has Huawei overcome U.S. sanctions by developing its own 5G chip?
The surprise launch of the latest high-end smartphone from Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) has triggered an international guessing game over what is...
Transport corridor projects to create economic surplus: WB report
ISLAMABAD: A report launched by the World Bank Group (WB) here on Thursday revealed that investment in transport corridors is expected to create large...
Pakistan amongst best performers, up by 12pc on MSCI, says report
LAHORE: Despite political and external pressures, Pakistan has recorded a surge of 12 per cent on the MSCI index and 6 per cent on...
Biden, Modi hail new era for US-India ties and tout deals
U.S. President Joe Biden and Narendra Modi hailed a new era in their countries' relationship after the White House rolled out the red carpet...
New Vodafone boss takes aim at costs with 11,000 global job cuts
New Vodafone (VOD.L) boss Margherita Della Valle said she would cut 11,000 jobs globally over three years to help the telecoms group regain its competitive...
