This is a stocktaking rather than a day’s movement. The Pakistan Stock Exchange is closed for the weekend, and the bullion market has not published a Sunday rate.
Where the figures stand
- KSE-100 — 166,419.71, Friday’s close, up 233.55 points
- Gold — Rs440,636 a tola, as published Saturday
- Petrol — Rs386.30 a litre
- High-speed diesel — Rs396.96 a litre
- USD/PKR — Rs277.05, the State Bank’s mark-to-market rate for 6 October
The rupee figure is twelve days old
That is the number this newspaper is least comfortable publishing, and it is worth being explicit about why it appears at all.
The State Bank has not posted a mark-to-market rate later than 6 October at any check across this period. Aggregator sites publish quotes daily, but they share one set of figures between them and publish a bid-offer spread rather than a close — which is not the same thing and cannot substitute for it.
Rs277.05 is therefore carried as the last published official rate, correctly dated, and not as a current one. It should not be read as evidence the rupee has been still for twelve days.
The week in the index
The KSE-100 fell 1,964.86 points on Monday after the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa emergency, lost a further 347.97 on Tuesday, then gained 641.07, 768.65 and 233.55. It ended 669.56 points below its pre-emergency level — about 71 per cent of the loss recovered.
Fuel
The gap between the two fuels stands at Rs10.66, with diesel dearer. Petrol has fallen Rs7.56 across two revisions while diesel has risen 31 paisas.
Diesel sets freight, tractor and generator costs. It has been effectively frozen for a week while petrol has moved sharply, which is why this newspaper has declined to describe the period as fuel price relief.
[Image: The Express Tribune]
Sources: Pakistan Stock Exchange, Pakistan State Oil, State Bank of Pakistan
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