Native lame ducks abound
The renowned German multinational engineering and electronics firm, Bosch, entered Pakistan with its first liaison office in Lahore in February 2016 –...
An economic imperative: Adding women to Pakistan’s workforce in substantive numbers
Working longer hours than the usual nine-to-five, her day starting at 9 am but extended up to 7 pm a little more...
It’s been a great year for the stock market. Was it for real?
With the index reaching new highs, Profit determines the winners and losers
Chundrigar Catastrophe: How economic indicators made the PSX crash
The stock market might not be an indicator of the economy, but the economy has a long, invisible, hand.
How to fix the Pakistani economy
Profit speaks to five of the nation’s top experts on what the government should do in order to get the economy humming again
Have car prices sleepwalked into no-man’s land where nobody can afford them anymore?
Customers might have to pull the break on their dreams to own a car because it looks like we’ll be here for a bit
Mall operator Pace, once a market leader, struggling to survive
The company operates old-fashioned shopping centers at a time when Pakistanis are getting used to modern malls; the social boycott against the majority shareholders – the Taseers – does not help either
The Dollar: Buy, sell or hoard?
Profit explains the flaws with the old FX policy, what measures the PTI took to keep the market relatively stable and where the USD/PKR parity is headed in the short to medium term.Â
Let there be IPOs
The PSX wants more IPOs but has the worst idea to incentivize them
Will the FBR toe the industry line, or lay down the law?
Businesses want a friendly tax regime. But what are their specific demands?
Habib Metro shows how (not) to compete against the big boys and win
Habib Metro is a boring, unexciting bank. It’s neither big nor small. Nobody uses its credit card. It won’t serve you if...
Habib Metropolitan: the proudly old-fashioned bank
Habib Metropolitan Bank has one of the fastest growing deposit bases among middle market banks in Pakistan, a branch network that has...
Will the new boss at the PSX clean house?
The new CEO of the country’s only stock exchange has big plans to expand investor participation in Pakistan. But does he dare take on the power of the brokers?
Pakistan’s digital efforts will not be in vain
The State Bank of Pakistan loves to promote its digitization process on its pages. Same goes for other banks as well: that...
ezBike: Revolutionizing Mobility or Just another startup?
The company aims to develop the EV ecosystem in the country but is it that EZ?