Wall Street Week Ahead: Big tech nervousness prompts calls to diversify

As a technology-driven rally brings U.S. stock indexes within striking distance of fresh records, concerns that big names are over-extended and that new regulation might be coming have some investors diversifying beyond the rally leaders. The S&P 500’s five biggest companies, Apple Inc AAPL.O, Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O, Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O and Facebook مزید پڑھیں

Unemployment rate to decline sharply in coming days, Finance Adviser

“The government is taking various steps to put economy on the path of sustainable growth and create employment opportunities for the youth, Finance Adviser Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh claimed We hope that the graph of unemployment will be reduced sharply in coming days,” he said while speaking to the office bearers and members of Lahore Chamber مزید پڑھیں

World is acknowledging economic growth of Pakistan: Abdul Hafeez Sheikh

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has the whole world is appreciating economic growth of Pakistan. “Due to coronavirus our economy shrunk but we are reviving the economy”, Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said while addressing the members of the business community at the Governor House Lahore. He appreciated the role مزید پڑھیں

Rupee hits five-month high against dollar as greenback falls to Rs163.20

The rupee hit a five-month high on Wednesday as the dollar was trading at Rs163.20 in the interbank market, data from the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan (ECAP) showed. “Steps taken by the State Bank of Pakistan are positive and the new rules and regulations discouraging illegal currency movement in the country have helped the مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan unlikely to avail $4.5bn Islamic Trade Finance Corporation facility

Pakistan is unlikely to fully benefit from $4.5bn financing package it secured about two and years ago from International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) owing to market limitations of the Jeddah-based agency. Pakistan and the ITFC on Monday signed about $400 million worth of two facilities to finance oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports مزید پڑھیں