Conversion rates

Published August 18, 2012

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

US dollar             Rs   94.4800 Japanese yen    Rs     1.1896 Pound sterling    Rs 148.4281 Euro    Rs 116.7584

LIBOR

The following is Libor rate for calculating interest on special US dollar bonds for August  17.

Libor

For 6 months    0.72%

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