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$80m foreign portfolio investment in Sept
KARACHI, Sept 30: Net inflow of foreign funds in the country’s stock market during September amounted to $79.7 million, which represents the highest single month portfolio investment by overseas investors in eight months of this calendar year.... 
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Pulses, vegetables, poultry become dearer
KARACHI, Sept 30: The month of September proved tough on the consumers who paid higher prices for pulses, vegetables, poultry products against some relief in prices of a few flour varieties....
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Sindh, Balochistan badly managed, insolvent: World Bank report
KARACHI, Sept 30: Sindh and Balochistan are relatively less densely populated provinces of Pakistan than Punjab and the NWFP. These provinces have a higher density of government servants and are comparatively badly managed with more illiterates....
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Insufficient supplies create rumpus at utility stores
KARACHI, Sept 30: Insufficient supplies of sugar, pulses and flour coupled with a marked difference in prices from the retail market have created a rumpus at utility stores in Karachi....
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More incentives to attract foreign investment likely
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Pakistan is likely to offer additional fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to the international institutional investors with a view to luring them to make new investment in the country....
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Pakistan-China FTA talks from 9th
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Pakistan and China will hold the fourth round of negotiation on finalisation of the draft text of FTA in Beijing next month, officials told Dawn on Saturday....
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Investment under CFS declines
KARACHI, Sept 30: Total investment under the CFS on the Karachi Stock Exchange last week showed a modest fall at Rs23.6 billion, below the upper limit of Rs24.5 billion....
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Crude business: both volatile and slippery
RIYADH, Sept 30: Crude markets have received severe battering -– of almost unprecedented magnitude -– having lost almost 25 per cent since July before rising somewhat, underlining the fact that crude business is both volatile and slippery....
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Lint prices ease amid active mill buying
KARACHI, Sept 30: Cotton prices on Saturday suffered fresh fall of Rs25 per maund as ginners continued to make hasty selling amid conflicting reports about the size of the crop....
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Package for Indian farmers
NEW DELHI, Sept 30: India''s cabinet has cleared a $3.7 billion package to try to stem farmer suicides in the cotton-growing belt but experts said on Saturday it may not help those hardest hit by rising debt....
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World oil prices lower, gold up
LONDON, Sept, 30: World oil prices see-sawed this week, dunking $60 per barrel on weakening supply worries, before bobbing above $64 as concerns resurfaced over Iran....
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PTA chairman
KARACHI, Sept 30: S. M. Naseem has been elected central chairman of Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) unopposed for the fifth time while Saqib Saeed Masood and Khawaja M....
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