Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Turkey wants gold savings to shore up ailing lira

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ANKARA: Gold has a central place in Turkish customs from birth to weddings. As the country is battling economic woes and low foreign currency reserves, the authorities want to draw the yellow metal stored by citizens into the banking system. As Turkey’s annual inflation surged to a two-decade high of 48.7 per cent in January, … Read more

Pakistan equity market closes record high as KSE-100 Index gains 1,120 points

Consolidation at the Pakistan Stock Exchange

KARACHI: The Pakistan stocks celebrated a lower-than-expected interest rate hike, which was accompanied by the central bank’s guidance, hinting now at rate hike in January monetary policy, dealers said. Ahsan Mehanti at Arif Habib Corporation said that the stocks closed record high after lower-than-expected tightening of the key policy rate by 100bps, and the central … Read more