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December 10, 2025

News Desk

IMF urges Pakistan to maintain tight monetary policy and expand tax regime

This picture shows the seal for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC on January 26, 2022. — AFP— AFP Efforts should be focused on improving the business environment: formal. Nigel Clarke says the reforms have helped macroeconomic stability. Advises SBP to allow exchange rate flexibility to absorb shocks. ISLAMABAD: After approving two tranches of a loan totaling $1.29 billion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to continue a tight monetary policy, expand and simplify its tax regime, adjust electricity and gas tariffs and continue structural reforms to fix the troubled economy. The News reported on Wednesday.

June 17, 2025

News Desk

The PSX range is bound in front of monetary policy

Karachi: The Pakistan’s Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday remained committed to range and recorded minutes of 82 points, as investors fell carefully ahead of monetary policy announcement later on the day. As expected by many analysts after the escalation of geopolitical tensions, the Central Bank abandoned its policy unchanged at 11%. Despite the conflict between Israel and Iran, the market ended the negotiation on positive territory as it took the slogan from the recovery of world shares. In the morning, the PSX started the procedures in an optimistic note and immediately reached the intra -group high at 122,903 points. Shortly

October 25, 2024

News Desk

The Monetary Policy Committee has called for a 400 basis point cut in interest rates

Workers working in a textile factory. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: In a bid to ease financial pressure on the industrial sector, the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has urged the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to cut interest rates by at least 400 basis points in its next meeting on November 4. Asking the MPC to reduce the discount rate, which is now at 17.5%, APTMA chairman Kamran Arshad stressed in a statement on Thursday that export businesses are extremely concerned about the persistently high interest rates, The News was mentioned. Arshad added that the real interest rate was at an

March 18, 2024

News Desk

SBP is likely to keep interest rate at 22% in today’s monetary policy meeting

A logo of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is pictured at a reception desk at its headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan, July 16, 2019. — Reuters Some financial sector players see the interest rate unchanged. Other experts predict a 1% rate cut. SBP has not changed policy rates for the last five meetings. The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) monetary policy committee will decide on the new policy rate at its meeting on Monday in Karachi, the central bank said in a statement. The committee is due to decide on the interest rate today with the majority of financial sector

March 7, 2024

News Desk

PSX feels pressure ahead of monetary policy

KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained under pressure on Wednesday as investors were cautious ahead of the mid-March monetary policy announcement and possible negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a new loan package. In the morning, trading started on a high and the market rose in the early hours. Buying activity was seen throughout the first half as investors warmed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s instructions to start talks with the IMF on an expanded capital facility (EFF). Bulls dominated proceedings until midday, soon after the KSE-100 touched an intraday high of 66,150.94. Market sentiment then turned

December 12, 2023

News Desk

Markets do not anticipate any change in monetary policy

KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank is set to make a critical announcement on Tuesday as it unveils its next monetary policy statement. Domestic financial markets have seen a marked shift in expectations, with a consensus now leaning towards keeping the current benchmark rate at a record 22%. This marks a departure from previous forecasts, which suggested the possibility of a modest rate cut in December 2023. The revised outlook comes ahead of expected approval by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board for the disbursement of the next $700 million loan tranche to Pakistan, due in January 2024. Initial forecasts were

October 31, 2023

News Desk

SBP maintains tight monetary policy

KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank on Monday left its key policy rate unchanged at a record high of 22 percent ahead of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) first review of its $3 billion loan program. “The MPC (monetary policy committee) noted that the successful and timely completion of the upcoming IMF-SBA (standby arrangement) review would help free up other multilateral and bilateral financing,” the State Bank said in announcing the monetary policy. The bank said it would maintain “tight monetary policy” for now, but indicated that the policy rate had peaked at the current level. In its latest monetary policy statement

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