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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday said it will announce monetary policy on October 10, 2022. The Monetary Policy Committee of SBP will meet on Monday, October 10, 2022 at SBP Karachi to decide about the Monetary Policy. Later on, SBP will issue the Monetary Policy Statement through a press release on […]
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KARACHI: Pakistan central bank is scheduled to review policy rate on July 07, 2022 and analysts believed an increase of up to 100 basis points due to surge in inflation. A report of K Trade Research issued on Tuesday, stated that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) scheduled its monetary policy meeting for July 07, […]
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ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has increased the key policy rate by 6.75 per cent during September 2021 to May 2022, according to Economic Survey of Pakistan 2021/2022 released on Thursday. The survey stated that Pakistan’s economy has witnessed a V-shaped recovery in 2020-2021 after witnessing a contraction of 0.9 percent in FY2020. […]
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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is scheduled to announce monetary policy on May 23, 2022 and may increase the key policy rate by 100 basis points to 13.25 per cent, analysts said on Tuesday. According to the analysts at Arif Habib Limited, the monetary policy committee of SBP will convene on Monday (May […]
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KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Saturday said that the recent increase in interest rate will result in disaster for the economy. Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, President FPCCI, has expressed his profound disappointment and concerns over an unexpected and massive hike in the key policy rate, i.e. 250 bps by the […]
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KARACHI: Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has urged the central bank to immediately withdraw the rise in the key policy rate of 2.5 per cent. Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) Zubair Motiwala and President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Muhammad Idrees, while highly criticizing the State Bank’s move to exorbitantly raise the […]
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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in an unscheduled meeting held on Thursday announced a sharp increase in key policy rate by 250 basis points to 12.25 per cent from 9.75 per cent for next two months. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is scheduled to be held on April 19, 2022. However, due to […]
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KARACHI: Salman Aslam, President, Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), has expressed concern over one percent increase in interest rates. He said that further increase in monetary policy by SBP to 9.75 per cent would result in more inflation. President Salman Aslam said that the government was trying to control inflation by raising interest […]
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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday announced first increase in key policy rate by 25 basis points in past 25 months. Previously, the SBP announced the increase in policy rate of 100 basis points to 13.25 per cent. The SBP kept the policy rate unchanged at 13.25 per cent till March 17, […]
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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday kept the policy rate unchanged at 7 per cent for next two months. The SBP said that at its meeting on July 27, 2021, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to maintain the policy rate at 7 percent.
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