Mettis Global News
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Mettis Global News
Mettis Global News

MPS Preview: High for Longer

Asia virus latest: Olympics postponed

March 25, 2020: After days of mounting pressure, Tokyo 2020 organizers bowed to the inevitable and postponed the Games to next year due to the rapidly spreading outbreak. Now Japan faces the unenviable

Oil prices rally on hopes for US stimulus

March 25, 2020: Oil prices rallied in Asia Wednesday on signs the US Congress was nearing an agreement on a massive stimulus package to help the coronavirus-ravaged American economy, tracking record Wall Street

Coronavirus economics: roundup of radical steps by govts

Mar 24, 2020: Governments and central banks around the world are resorting to the unthinkable as they battle to immunise their economies from deeper coronavirus carnage. Gargantuan debt spending, loan guarantees, tax breaks

ICCI for reducing policy interest rate to 5%

Mar 24, 2020: Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has urged the government to reduce policy interest rate to 5 percent in order to save businesses from the negative impact of coronavirus.

‘Unprecedented collapse’ for eurozone businesses

Mar 24, 2020: Businesses in the eurozone suffered “an unprecedented collapse” this month because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a closely watched indicator released Tuesday by IHS Markit. Provisional data showed

OPEC daily basket price drops to 24.72 USD per barrel

Mar 24, 2020: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) daily basket price dropped to 24.72 U.S. dollars a barrel on Monday, compared with 28.57 dollars on Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat

Govt accumulates another Rs.192 bln net loan

March 12, 2019 (MLN): Government of Pakistan accumulated an additional net loan worth Rs.192 billion during the week ended March 1, 2019 according to weekly data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on

PM launches low cost finance scheme for housing project

ISLAMABAD, Mar 11: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday launched the low cost finance scheme for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government's flagship project of constructing five million housing units in the country. Addressing the launch ceremony

Finance Division awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification

March 11, 2019 (MLN): The Finance Division of Pakistan has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification which replaces the earlier ISO 9001-2008 with the latest standards of ISO 2001-2015. ISO 9001 is defined as an international

EOBI pension amount to be raised to Rs 15,000

March 11, 2019: The government was committed to raise Employees' Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension amount up to minimum Rs15,000 by 2023, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sayed

EU sanctions EUR 100, 000 relief fund for southern Pakistan

March 11, 2019: European Union is allocating EUR 100 000 in humanitarian funding to bring life-saving assistance to the most affected communities in Southern Pakistan.   According to a Press Release, the aid will directly benefit 15

Rs 365.9 billion released for development projects

March 11, 2019: The federal government has released Rs 365.99 billion against the total allocation of Rs 675 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2018-19 for various ongoing and new schemes. The released

Tomato prices to relapse within a fortnight

March 11, 2019: Tomato price in local markets has witnessed sharp surge for the last several weeks, which has put an extra burden on daily kitchen budget as well as swelled the inflation rate. The