Despite availability of sufficient stock of sugar in the country, its wholesale price has surged to Rs 61-62 per kilogram as a result of recent decision of Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) allowing export of 0.25

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US soyabean futures rose 1.4 percent on Wednesday on a round of bargain buying following three straight days of declines that pushed the benchmark contract to its lowest since mid-November, traders said. Corn futures also

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Gold rose to the highest in nearly four weeks on Wednesday as the dollar edged back from a 14-year peak and physical demand from major consumers China and India increased. Spot gold climbed to its

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This is apropos a Business Recorder news item "Consensus still eludes China, Pakistan on FTA expansion" carried by the newspaper yesterday. According to it, Commerce Ministry has not yet decided to go for the second

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Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall US President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border. But in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, where extensive fencing was erected by the United States to secure

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Veteran politician Javed Hashmi has suddenly recalled he had a lot more information on the 2014 sit-in the PTI staged in Islamabad against alleged electoral rigging than he realised at the time that needed to

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At the dawn of 2017 Pakistan is at an economic crossroads. On the one side we have the IMF warning that unless Pakistan puts in place a comprehensive strategy for reforms, investment, exports and growth,

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If 2016 proved an annus horribilis, can Muslims look forward to something better in 2017? Not, it would appear, if present trends continue. Consider. The Muslim world has been hard done by, first at the

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Joint Co-operation Committee (JCC) of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) co-chaired by Wang Xiaotao, Vice Chairman of National Development and Reform Commission and Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms expressed satisfaction over

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A meeting of senior management of the SECP with the consultative group comprising of senior market participants and representatives of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) and National Clearing Company of Pakistan Limited (NCCPL) was held at

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