Business

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index gains 140 points

Engro CEO says govt needs to take immediate remedial measures.

Higher costs of supplies, increased competition eat into industry profits.

CPI shows declining trends; double-digit core inflation remains a concern.

Bill passed after deliberation on amendments, corrections as proposed by Committee secretariat, members committee.

NDTV sues viewer ratings agency TAM India and its global parents, Nielsen and Kantar, for over $1.3 billion.

Finance ministry opposed Ogra’s proposal to cut levy instead of increasing fuel prices.

Govt employees will get remuneration after August 5.

Saudi Aramco contract price jumps to $775 per ton.

APCNGA says investment and years of effort put at stake to benefit a few.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index gains 65 points.

Paperwork finalised for export to Australia as well.

Demands are indisputable as low demand has hurt the sector: PAAPAM.

Money will be spent on setting up desulphurisation plants.

Country’s largest OMC to also buy two ships for crude oil transport and set up a storage unit in Balochistan.

Rozee.pk analysed around 8.14 million job applications for a survey.

The price of CNG will also rise to maintain its 60% parity with petrol.

Latter to help sell Pakistani firm Care & Cure’s products.

Company offers partial payment facility to lure car buyers۔

10,000 commercial bank branches to be utilised .

Petroleum ministry seeks finance ministry’s guarantees for long-term supply۔

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index eases 15 points.

Diesel reaches Lahore division at the eleventh hour.

PEW conducts survey to determine if people believe hard work is rewarding.

Issuing or renewing licences to be banned for gas stations.

AkzoNobel completes de-merger chemicals business of the colonial-era multinational, will keep paints business.

It has generally been argued that war with a trading ally is economic suicide.

Household spending on this category surges 178% in a decade.

Economists say the real estate market dances to its own tune.

Financial sector firms offer a wider array of products to customers with more money to invest.

Pakistanis are eating more food and buying more clothes, and not caring about inflation.

How the urban middle class has continued to prosper, even as the rural poor sink further.

The energy-rich state plans to sell the project to international oil and gas majors in autumn.

120 megawatt (MW) hydel power project to be set up at Taunsa Barrage.

Pakistan has printed new currency notes worth Rs592 billion during June 2011 to July 2012.

Condition for the exporter to be a member of REAP to be abolished.

TDAP fails to register raw cotton export contracts.

Nine out of 10 employees show commitment to company.

FTA will ruin local industry with foreign, cheap products: Sherani.

Pakistan and UAE negotiate a new settlement deal

Company-specific news flows dominated the week.

Petitioner challenges new appointments, terms them political, and alleges they are getting benefits beyond EPZ rules.

Trading Corporation purchases fertiliser at $419 per ton.

Water fuelling system to be patented and fully developed.

Finance ministry presses for immediate examination of bank guarantees.

NA body asks the company to avoid duplication of expenditures.

Benchmark KSE-100 index sheds 27 points.

KESC to charge Rs2.7 per unit more in August and September bills.

Modern locomotives will take at least a year to arrive.

Humour website Gagism was developed by Zafar for fear of being laid off.