Microfinance services are an important tool to improve livelihood of poor and marginalised segments of the population.

Ambassador Cameron Munter sees great investment potential in energy sector.

Sugar millers have expressed their inability to set up power plants across the country.

Banks make most investment in short-term papers.

Reforms being delayed, industry output weak, says SBP.

Pakistan’s investment-to-GDP ratio has dropped for three years in a row.

Reports about the risk of credit card default in China spark panic in the domestic cotton market.

The State Bank will unveil the next monetary policy on November 29 and all eyes will be on the interest rate.

Cotton prices may rise once again to Rs10,000 per maund (37.324 kg) on the back of shortages and heavy demand.

Market share presently stands at 6 per cent.