The Pak Banker - 2024-01-27

• Monetary Policy: To cut or not to cut?
• Financial controls tightened ahead of IMF review
• Finance Division directs all attached department­s to deposit annual surpluses
• Higher SBP reserves keep exchange rate stable
• Experts expect policy rate to remain unchanged in upcoming MPC meeting
• IT exports witnesses remarkable surge in December 2023
• Elahi among PTI candidates allowed by SC to contest Feb 8 polls
• PM Kakar requests China to rollover $2 billion loan
• Three days 9th Mega Leather Show kicks off at Expo Centre
• PTI says its websites ‘blocked’ in Pakistan ahead of Feb 8 polls
• Shut ‘private jails’ in Sindh, Shehbaz tells Bilawal
• Freight through Suez Canal down 45pc since Houthi attacks
• Oil set for weekly gain on US economic growth
• Best developmen­ts from AFC Asian Cup so far
• ILT20 is only going to get bigger and
• Spot Bitcoin ETFs will drive digital assets jobs within financial institutio­ns - Binance CEO
• Comparing economic performanc­es
• A saffron rebirth
• An affront to Gandhi’s Ram
• Building trust
• Army duties
• US govt shutdown threats on Senate border bill
• The dangers of great power competitio­n for resources
• Europe must prepare for worst-case scenarios
• Chinese economy still has much potential
• A Ukrainian call to Davos
• Hardline US Republican­s side-lined by spending deal
• ICJ opens case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
• US seeks to encourage Libyans on reconcilia­tion, dialogue
• Ethnic killings in Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead: UN
• Jack Ma buys Alibaba stock for struggling empire amid market setback
• Myanmar to hold coconut-based products expo in delta region
• Safran tests radical jet engine design in historic wind tunnel
• Tesla stocks fall as sales decrease due to competitio­n
• Microsoft says Russian hackers spied on its executives
• Asia’s top banks are financing coal due to loopholes: report
• Crypto bank files record $3b lawsuit against Bulgaria
• US capital rules could narrow bank sector’s transatlan­tic gulf
• EU growth plan potential ‘game changer’ for Western Balkans, official says
• Fed to allow emergency bank lending program expire on March 11
• Turkey’s central bank hikes key interest rate again to 45pc to battle inflation

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