DUBLIN:-Ireland coach Phil Simmons on Tuesday named an unchanged squad for the two upcoming one-day international matches against Pakistan, who are using the series as a warm-up for the Champions Trophy. SQUAD: William Porterfield (captain), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Ed Joyce, ...

The State Bank of Pakistan Board of Directors decided on Friday to hold the bank’s policy rate at 9.5 percent, thus keeping the underlying interest rate punitively high. The board, which met at the bank’s Karachi offices, took this decision in view of the depleting foreign exchange ...

LAHORE – The business community on Friday expressed dismay at the State Bank of Pakistan for keeping the policy rate intact and strongly called for a downward revision to 8pc to encourage new investments and revive trade and industry.They said that the availability of cheaper money is ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.5 per cent. The decision was taken by the Central Board of Directors of SBP at its meeting held here with Governor Yaseen Anwar in chair on Friday.The decision to keep the policy rate unchanged was taken in ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.5 percent. The decision was taken by the Central Board of Directors of SBP at its meeting held under the chairmanship of Governor, Mr. Yaseen Anwar in Karachi Friday.The decision to keep the policy rate unchanged was ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan’s near-term risk of political instability has risen in recent months, but the country’s sovereign rating of B- with a stable outlook remains unchanged, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said.Standard & Poor’s, or S&P, warned in a report on ...

LAHORE - State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) decision to keep the policy rate unchanged failed to weaken the investor sentiments at the local bourse. Investors also ignored domestic political uncertainty, as strong corporate announcements, US State department’s allocation of $2.4 billion for ...

LAHORE The unchanged monetary policy by the State Bank kept the stock market investors depressed during the outgoing week. The KSE 100-share index closed at 11,372 points, declining by 276 points or 2.4 percent WoW. Average volumes remained dismally low at 37 million shares, though on a WoW basis, ...

KARACHI - The economic experts foresee that the upcoming monetary policy decision would be highly influenced by the probable fiscal effects of the tax and power sector reforms on countrys growing budget deficit and foreign debt. Some of these reforms are expected to implement by the government by ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Government has announced that the rates of return on all National Savings Schemes shall remain unchanged till next review. According to a statement issued by CDNS here, the existing rates of return on different National Savings Schemes are 12.15pc for Defence Savings ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinas central bank left its yuan exchange rate basically unchanged on Thursday following its recent vow to let the currency trade more freely amid mounting US pressure. The Peoples Bank of China set the central parity rate the centre point of the currencys allowed trading band at ...

State Bank of Pakistan kept on Saturday its key policy rate unchanged at 12.5 per cent for February and March, the Governor said, as it fights to sustain growth and keep inflation in check. Governor SBP Syed Salim Raza announced this while addressing a press conference for the announcement of ...

LAHORE - Business in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on Thursday though remained unimpressive and dull throughout the day and kept limited and dry on the fourth consecutive day in a row but the heavy trading in Saritow scrip spurred the hopes of market liveliness while benchmark KSE 100-index ...

LAHORE - Business resumed on Thursday in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) at a snail's pace and remained limited and flat throughout the day while volume of traded shares registered to an upward trend compared to Wednesday trading. The benchmark KSE 100-index witnessed officially no change closed at ...

LAHORE - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) Tuesday witnessed yet another dull dreary and flat day, as the investors with their shattered confidence preferred to abstain from business activities taking any risk and remained lacklustre, which saw the volume of trade sliding down to a record low-level, ...

LAHORE - In continuation of the last week, the KSE-100 index remained unchanged for the whole week with the record of lowest average volume in a single day, with the average daily turnover touching a new pathetic low of 0.75m shares during the current week. Dealers said that while the ...

The Bank of Japan said Tuesday it had decided to leave its super-low interest rates unchanged at 0.5 percent, at the end of a two-day meeting, as had been widely expected. The central bank's policy board voted unanimously to keep the benchmark lending rate on hold for a 15th straight month, the BoJ ...

Federal government Thursday decided to keep Petroleum prices unchanged for at least another 15 days. The Initial proposal was prepared by the ministry of finance in light of the picture drawn by Oil and gas regulatory authority. The summary had proposed a hike of at least 3 rupees across the board ...