Posted on 04.24.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:41 am
A nine-member committee has been formed to smooth the transition from COT (Badla) to margin financing. Comprising four bankers and five brokers, the committee would have former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and now President of Metropolitan Bank, Kasim Parekh, as its chairman. In a series of meetings held at the State Bank of Pakistan Head Office on Saturday, chaired by the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan and attended by Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan and Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Dr Tariq Hasan.
More on: Badla, COT, Metropolitan Bank, SBP, SECP
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Posted on 04.24.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:31 am
A nine-member committee has been formed to smooth the transition from COT (Badla) to margin financing. Comprising four bankers and five brokers, the committee would have former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and now President of Metropolitan Bank, Kasim Parekh, as its chairman. In a series of meetings held at the State Bank of Pakistan Head Office on Saturday, chaired by the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan and attended by Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan and Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Dr. Tariq Hasan.
More on: Badla, COT, Metropolitan Bank, National Clearing House, SBP, SECP
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Posted on 04.22.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:31 am
The Privatisation Commission has virtually missed the deadline of April 30 for the United Bank Limited (UBL) initial public offering (IPO) as the Security & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and stock exchanges are yet to register the transaction, it was learnt here on Friday. In the case of IPO, after the cabinet committee on privatisation (CCoP) approval, the privatisation commission is required to submit the case with the SECP for registration.
More on: IPO, SECP, UBL
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Posted on 04.22.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:31 am
The Board of Directors of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), in a meeting with Commissioner Securities Market, Shahid Ghaffar, has elaborated several rules related to futures market including that from May 2005, no scrip shall qualify for futures market unless its free-float is 50 million or more. Moreover, member’s exposure in Futures Contract in a scrip shall not exceed 1 percent of the free-float, as determined by the Exchange, under its free-float methodology.
More on: KSE, SECP
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Posted on 04.22.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:21 am
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has summoned his Adviser on Finance Dr Salman Shah and State Bank Governor Dr Ishrat Husain to assess the placement of liquidity in the stock market for phasing out of COT (badla) with margin financing. At present, Salman and Ishrat are in the US to attend International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings. They are scheduled to return on April 25. Now they would report in Islamabad directly.
More on: Badla, COT, IMF, Ishrat Husain, Salman Shah, SBP, Shaukat Aziz, World Bank
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Posted on 04.20.05 by StockPK Team @ 11:21 am
The Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has accepted the demand of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) related to badla phasing system from margin financing, which failed to cheer the investors’ mood on Tuesday. The SECP, through a letter, informed the KSE which later on circulated as a notice for all members. The letter said that the Commission is pleased to note that the KSE board has decided to implement a number of the terms and conditions, agreed to by the Commission and the KSE in the meetings held on April 16 and 17, 2005, which are essential to ensure the smooth phase-out of COT.
More on: Badla, COT, KSE, SECP
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Posted on 04.18.05 by StockPK Team @ 4:20 pm
The Privatization story of Kot Addu Power Company Limited (Kapco) has finally begun to unfold as the company disclosed financial results for the half year ended December 31, 2004.
In an announcement released through the Karachi Stock Exchange on Saturday, the company posted after tax profit of Rs3,687 million for the six months, July-December 2004. That translated into earning per share (eps) of Rs4.19 on 880 million outstanding shares.
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Posted on 04.18.05 by StockPK Team @ 2:13 pm
The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has asked the Privatisation Commission (PC) to allocate 10 percent shares of Kot Addu Power Company ( kapco ) for Wapda employees through suitable amendment in the offer for sale document, sources in PC told Business Recorder. They said that Wapda Chairman Tariq Hamid has written a letter, the second in three weeks, to Privatisation Ministry Secretary, inviting his attention towards concerns of Wapda and Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) union of employees regarding non-allocation of quota of kapco public shares to be offloaded to Wapda employees.
More on: CBA, Kapco, Wapda
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Posted on 04.18.05 by StockPK Team @ 2:13 pm
Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) and Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) have jointly conducted a successful mock-trading session here on Saturday. The information technology (IT) experts of the exchanges said the operational capacity and system topology were measured and subsequently found satisfactory. The successful completion of mock-trading session has further strengthened the merger scheme of two bourses. Now, the ISE and LSE both were technologically ready for merger, experts added.
Meanwhile, the ISE Chairman Abdul Waheed Jan told this correspondent the board meeting would be held on March 16 to give formal approval to the merger of ISE and LSE. Both the exchanges had already agreed on setting up of a new company to promote integration of stock exchanges in the country.
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Posted on 04.18.05 by StockPK Team @ 2:13 pm
The Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDC) is the trend-setter and since the beginning of 2005, of the gains made by KSE-100 index, nearly 68 percent has been contributed by this equity. Among the top and active stocks of KSE, analysis shows that OGDC remains the major contributor responsible for the increase of approximately 2,300 points, or 68 percent, out of the overall 3,356 points jump since the beginning of the current calendar year.
More on: KSE, OGDC
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