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| June 30, 2003 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 29,1424 |
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Bears gasp for breath in overbought market
Stocks, during the last week established new peak levels amid highly erratic price movements. Final closing remained on higher side as the bulls were not inclined to give a breathing space... 
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Time, demand liabilities continue upward movement
On June 25, at the six-month Treasury bill auction, the State Bank of Pakistan received total bids worth Rs19.375 billion. It accepted only Rs1.5 billion and rejected the rest. The SBP...
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Commodities display dull trading
Karachi wholesale commodity markets passed through another featureless week as the prices of essential items showed divergent trend in the absence of Punjab dealers....
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Slight fall in rupee
The inter-bank market, this week opened on a negative note as the rupee parity assumed downtrend. However, the fall in rupee value against the dollar was marginal....
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Sugar-beet fiasco in Sindh
During the last few years, the supply of irrigation water for crop production, is showing a declining trend. The pundits who can forecast the likely availability of the water for agricultural...
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Wheat support policy and free market
 In an article entitled “APCom Survey Demolishes Wheat Support Policy” published in the EBR weekly (June 2-8,03), Syed Shahid Husain has highlighted the results of survey data published in the report...
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Wheat yields accross the border
While the government is insisting that its figure of 19.3 million tonnes of wheat for the recent crop is authentic and sufficient to meet domestic consumers’ needs, it would do well...
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World economics report
Uganda has consistently been among Africa’s best performers, with average annual increases of more than 3 per cent in per capita income, but remains among the world’s 30 poorest........
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Stagnant exports in leather products
 The leather industry in Pakistan is the second largest foreign exchange earner after textiles. It is one of the established indigenous manufacturing sectors that have developed reasonably very well over last...
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Risks to concentrated economies
 Power has been the major quest for human beings since known history. In Stone Age, a person or a group who possessed any thing (we can call “weapon”) by which he...
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Getting ready for WTO challenges
Pakistan is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO),the goal of which is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business. All trade quotas would...
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Too big a delegation for a small trade
A delegation of 100 Pakistani businessmen going out to India for 10 days from July 2 is too large a group in the present state of slowly thawing India-Pakistan relations....
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