Equities have become preferred asset class

Karachi, July 01, 2020: The pandemic has triggered the deepest global recession in decades. We have witnessed slowdown in Pakistan’s economy and downside risk to growth has increased. However, the fiscal and monetary authorities have responded with unprecedented economic policies including fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and debt moratorium. The recent reduction of Policy Rate to…

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Equities sink amid bad news in the neighborhood

Karachi, Augst 10, 2019: Unwarranted selling and fragile sentiments witnessed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange during then last week correlated to India’s inexcusable revocation of Kashmir’s special status. According to Arif Habib Research, once again brought to the forefront, political rivalry between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours. With peace in the region tested, investors…

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