Buying back bonds: An innovative solution for Pakistan’s financial woes
Writing for The Express Tribune, author AAH Soomro suggests that efficient management of companies and countries requires constant effort to maximize profits...
From game-changer to bailout: The troubled journey of CPEC
Writing for Business Recorder, author Farhat Ali explains that China and Pakistan signed 51 agreements and Memoranda of Understanding worth $46 billion...
Market Daily: Indices fail to maintain positive momentum
After gaining around 66 points during the session market eventually slipped in the red zone, where it lost around 325 points intraday to close at an index level of 42,536 points, down 236 points from Wednesday’s close.
Market Daily: KSE-100 flat WoW amid profit-taking
During the week, foreigners remained net sellers to the tune of $14.6 million as against net selling of $0.4 million seen during the same period last week.
From fast food to autos, India’s digitally connected users lure investors
Mumbai resident Shivam Vahia cannot remember the last time he left home to shop. He spends about 30,000 rupees ($364) a month...
Once booming Indian startups set for more pain as funding crunch worsens
A funding squeeze at Indian startups that has already led to layoffs and delayed stock listings is set to worsen as investors...
IGI Investments (Private) Limited acquires majority biopharmaceutical companyÂ
IGI Holdings Limited is a Packages group company and was incorporated in 1953
US companies hoarding workers even as economy cools
When storms hammered California's farms last winter, Kevin Kelly knew his small factory outside San Francisco would soon see demand wilt for...
Smuggled/Counterfeit Drugs: Products of the collapsing pharmaceutical industry
The consequential unavailability of medicines can inevitably trigger a national health emergency
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...
APTMA sends budget proposals to finance minister
KARACHI: In its budget proposals, the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said that the availability of electricity at regionally competitive prices is of...
For nth time, Dar claims staff-level agreement right around the cornerÂ
The finance minister’s promises seem to have stopped giving confidence to the markets which continued to show negative trends.Â
Chinese tech entrepreneurs keen to ‘de-China’ as tensions with US soar
For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder.
Before 2019, there were few major impediments to having...
Pakistan’s growth backed by China’s A1 stable ratings, says Moody’s
Moody’s has reaffirmed Pakistan’s credit profile as B3 stable, while it boasts GDP growth of 5.8 per cent against 3.8 per cent amongst its peers.
Fixed exchange rates risky for Pakistan’s plummeting foreign reserves, says Moody’s
Moody's maintained that higher interest to revenue in the baseline compared with floating exchange rates thrive under exchange rate shocks. Thus, deterioration in debt affordability could lower investors’ willingness to invest while making it harder for Pakistan to access foreign funding.