PSX gears up for the year’s first IPO
A small number of active blue-chip companies are now touching their fair values.
Dilawar Hussain
Fee cuts cause a gush of mutual fund investment
A couple of major stockbrokers actively lobbied against the reduction in regulatory fees.
Stocks surge 684 points tossing index to 17-month high
The market has witnessed a spectacular rally that has carried it up by 50pc in fewer than five months.
Stocks rally 1,165 points as US-Iran tensions ease
KARACHI: Investors who had run to take cover following Iran’s missile attacks on US bases in Iraq on Wednesday,...
Good times ahead
‘The market is set for a re-rating in 2020 on the back of a recovery in corporate profitability amidst improving ...
Taking stock of the decade
Equities outperformed other classes of assets over the last 10 years.
No good news for small investors
National Savings are supposed to act like a safety net for special segments of society. But the government seems to
The fault in our capital market
Issuers put over a dozen IPOs on hold owing to unfavourable stock market conditions in 2017.
Good times rolling for investors at Pakistan Stock Exchange
The country’s ranking in the ease of doing business jumped 28 places to 108th in 2019.
Let’s get the drum roll going
The country’s ranking in the ease of doing business jumped 28 places to 108th in 2019.
False pretences
Fraudulent companies use their SECP registration to beguile the public into believing that their activities are within..
Index alone proves nothing
‘LEAs should ask the SECP to provide them with staff for particular tasks instead of summoning officials of...
Bulls march on
A steep drop in the returns on government papers has buoyed investors’ confidence
Tracing shell companies
Buried deep under the high-profile cases of politicians, the Panama Papers also revealed the names of 259 Pakistanis ...
Resuscitating the primary share market
The market is relieved that the IPO regulations have finally caught the eye of the regulator.
The boardroom conundrum
The fee for attending meetings now runs into hundreds of thousands for a single sitting against the...
Brokers protest against standard commission
KARACHI: A couple of stockbrokers along with their traders were chatting excitedly outside the stock exchange ...
Dodging the FATF’s blacklist
'Blacklisting would result in an overall downgrade of the entire financial system.'
Businessmen send a distress signal
Profitability of listed companies in 2018-19 amounted to Rs588 billion, down 4.7pc from a year ago
Policing the stock analysts
Brokerages avoid quoting a ‘target price’ post-Research Analysts Regulations, 2015