Conversion rates

Published April 21, 2012

KARACHI: The following are April 23, State Bank conversion rates for foreign currency deposits, dollar bearer certificates, foreign currency bearer certificates and special US dollar bonds.

US dollar             Rs   90.7126

Japanese yen    Rs     1.1096

Pound sterling    Rs 146.0110

Euro    Rs 119.4504

LIBOR

The following is Libor rate for calculating interest on special US dollar bonds for April  20.

Libor For 6 months  0.73%

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