Tag: Stock

Indonesia stock market holds minute silence for affectees of floor collapse

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s stock exchange held a minute silence at the start of trading on Tuesday for more than 70 people injured when a mezzanine...

OGRA held responsible for not keeping stock

OGRA refuses to accept responsibility of petrol crisis, says it informed oil companies and Petroleum Ministry about petrol stock situation on December 28, 2014 Petroleum...

India continues to stock cluster bombs

India is among a handful of nations that continues to stock cluster bombs, used for carpet bombing. Cluster munitions have a wide-area effect, which makes...

Slight recovery in Pakistani stocks following steep fall

The Pakistani stock market closed higher on Wednesday after a steep fall the previous day. Investors bought cautiously although uncertainty remained over the resolution of...

Pakistani stocks plunge over 300 points, rupee weakens

Pakistani stocks closed lower on Wednesday amid concerns over political stability and weaker interest in energy stocks, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark...

Bears leave their mark on the capital

The Islamabad Stock Exchange witnessed a bearish trend on Monday as the ISE-10 index was down by 18.81 points to close at 3220.56. A...

US deadlock, data cap global stocks; euro gains

The euro fell to session lows against the dollar after data on U.S. consumer spending and income fell short of expectations, though it later...

Stock futures end shortened session lower on storm, Europe

All US stock markets were closed on Monday and may remain closed on Tuesday, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange said, depending...

GE, McDonald’s give Wall Street a black eye on ’87 crash...

Technology shares kept up a pattern of recent weakness, hurt by anemic results from Microsoft (MSFT.O) and another losing day for Google (GOOG.O). The...

Investors turn wary as earnings picture dims

Central bank-fueled gains took markets within reach of five-year highs in September, but now U.S. stock market participants are shifting their focus back to...

‘Stock brokers must undergo ICM certification’

The Institute of Capital Markets (ICM) has made it mandatory for employees of the country’s brokerage houses to enroll with it for a Certification...

Stock bulls eye Spain, Bernanke and jobs

The S&P 500.INX.SPX finished its third positive quarter in the last four on Friday, despite suffering its largest weekly percentage decline since June. For...

Dr Salman Shah elected LSE Board chairman

The Board of Directors of the Lahore Stock Exchange Limited (LSE) today elected Dr. Salman shah new Chairman of the Board. Dr. Shah is...

Pakistani stocks hit four-year high

The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index closed 0.90 percent, or 137.87 points, higher at 15,391.58, on volume of 13.12 million shares. Pakistan’s...

KSE drops bomb, 22 firms gone, 9 survive

The front regulators at the recently-demutualised Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) have decided to delist almost two dozen listed companies for their failure to comply...

Oh it’s a bull bash alright!

The bulls stamped their authority at the Karachi stock market on the first working day of the week with benchmark, KSE 100-share index gaining...

LONG OVERDUE!

Dollar-starved Pakistan on Wednesday finally received the long-awaited $ 1.118 billion from the United States under the long-withheld Coalition Support Fund (CSF), confirmed the...