Business

Says govt is working to provide competitive and fair business environment

Reviews possibility of takeover, suspension of additional power supplies

Bike segment registering strong demand due to drastic cut in financing cost

Total number of investors stands at 252,322 by end of April 2021

Benchmark index rises 380.02 points to close at 44,943.61

Crude oil prices also got support from a large fall in US inventories

Country will also pay $3.8b to external creditors during last quarter of current fiscal

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Economic czar unveils plan to spur growth

Boards of KSE-100 companies include people close to these families

Minister says takeover of liabilities conditional on bringing private management

Gives priority to agriculture, directs farmers should be facilitated more

Energy minister expresses satisfaction over progress on TAPI gas pipeline

Major carriers will conduct trials in urban, rural and semi-urban areas

Mainstreams digital currencies by bringing them to trading floors of Wall Street

Total sales reach 4.94m tons in April 2021 against 3.52m tons in April last year

Directs railways ministry, PPP Authority to review progress every month

Prospect of pick-up in fuel demand offsets concern over India’s Covid-19 situation

Benchmark KSE-100 index surges 487.39 points to close at 44,563.59

He termed improvement in Pakistan’s ranking in the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) Index a major win for BOI

rupee strengthened against the US dollar at Rs153.3

Appeals for govt subsidy on high air and sea freight rates

Earnings of 94 firms clock-in at record high of Rs243 billion in Jan-Mar quarter

Cautions govt if payments are held back, tractor parts makers will face trouble

Aims to encourage manufacturers, suppliers of transformers, cables, etc

Anti-corruption watchdog questions tax exemptions for $1.6b project

Study based on data from seven countries that make up two-thirds of online trade

Six LNG tankers re-routed as Covid crisis dampens domestic demand

SAPM says govt trying to discourage overseas Pakistanis from using hundi/hawala

Move aimed at executing Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan

India reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for 12th straight day

Benchmark KSE-100 index drops 186.15 points to close at 44,076.20

Policy should continue for long time to attract good quality FDI

Long-run solution to stagflation is increase in productivity of factors of production

If political polarisation grows, hopes for 3% economic expansion will fade

Improved trade facilitation, digitalisation of procedures will be critical to reducing costs

In absence of inflation-led growth, it will be very hard to show economic progress

Crypto firms added to AML rules

Slowdown in industrial production due to third wave of Covid-19 to fuel lay-offs

Increase comes on back of surge in food prices

KSE-100 index decreases 445 points amid growing cases of coronavirus

Beijing eyes FMD free meat and dairy products for import

Indian financial markets struggle as world’s worst Covid-19 crisis engulfs country

Say closure of factories, businesses will have serious economic and social consequences

There has been growing retail and institutional investor acceptance of digital currencies

Says high taxes and capacity payments are contributing to rising circular debt

Looks to ease pressure on telecom networks for delivering high quality service

Reduction comes on back of limited flight operations, low jet fuel prices

Says govt will provide targeted, sustainable incentives to business community

Applicants applying for housing loans are being charged exorbitant processing fee