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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rosenearly 2% on Thursday, after two consecutive losses, as expectations of increased Indian purchases, stronger crude oil prices, and firmer rival Dalian…
SINGAPORE: Chicago soybeans and corn firmed on Thursday, recouping some of the previous session’s losses as higher oil prices and positioning ahead of a monthly agricultural supply-demand report…
SHANGHAI: China’s onshore yuan was steady on Thursday as mainland markets reopened after a week-long holiday during which the Chinese currency strengthened offshore despite a strong dollar.
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India likely sold dollars near the market open on Thursday to support the rupee, four traders said, with the currency within striking distance of its all-time low.
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan on Thursday raised its economic assessment for two of the country’s nine regions and said robust AI-related demand was underpinning output.
PML-N leader Hamza Shehbaz and Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong hold a meeting at PM Office in Islamabad on October 8, 2026.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has raised the customs value of imported shelled almonds to $3.81 per kilogram and
MUMBAI: The Indian rupee’s drop after a Reserve Bank of India rate hike and stance change on Wednesday that some economists said was hawkish has left the currency vulnerable to further losses, with…
Indian shares were likely to open slightly lower on Thursday , extending losses from the previous session after the central bank delivered a hawkish rate hike, while rising oil prices added to…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and Pakistan have reached a staff-level agreement on the fourth review of the $7-billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the third review of the…
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday appointed Mariam Kayani, a BPS-20 officer of Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), as adviser to the executive director (ED) of the International Monetary…
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has highlighted significant distortions in tax systems that affect key economic decisions, noting that unrecovered value-added tax (VAT) can raise…
ISLAMABAD: The government has moved to overhaul the power sector regulatory regime amid growing solarisation, falling grid demand and mounting legacy capacity obligations, with Finance Minister…
KARACHI: Pakistan’s financial inclusion index rose to 59.5 in 2025 from preceding year’s 58.1, reflecting a further expansion in access to and use of formal financial services across the country.
ISLAMABAD: The government has set an ambitious target to nearly double SME financing to Rs2 trillion and increase the number of potential borrowers to 775,000 by June 2028, as the Finance Ministry…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday called for stronger public-private cooperation to boost the economy, stressing that the…
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