ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday directed Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar, Advisor to PM Ahad Cheema, FBR Chairman, federal finance secretary and senior officers at a meeting to formulate and present a comprehensive strategy, based on input from all the stakeholders, to improve how the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) works. He emphasized that the utilisation …

ISLAMABAD: The United States announced the mobilization of more than $40 million in new U.S.-Pakistani diaspora investment at the USAID ‘Invest in Pakistan’ conference in Islamabad on Saturday.  Four diaspora partners concluded four new Memoranda of Understanding with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) valued at $44 million – increasing total diaspora commitments to nearly $200 million.  New investment commitments include: …

WASHINGTON, DC: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has concluded the Article IV consultation1 with Dominica and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting on a lapse-of-time basis. The Dominican economy is recovering strongly following the pandemic. Real GDP growth is estimated to have reached 6.9 percent in 2021 and 5.7 percent in 2022, driven by construction of climate-resilient …

LONDON: Shares of British makeup brand Revolution Beauty (REVB.L) soared as much as 54% after a suspension of trading of the company’s stock was lifted on Wednesday. Revolution Beauty’s shares were suspended from trading on Sept. 1 last year, after the company’s auditors raised concerns about its financial accounts and the company failed to publish its 2022 annual results. ‑‑Reuters

KARACHI: The price of gold in Pakistan continued to fall, by Rs1,500 per tola in fact on Friday, as it did throughout the world’s gold market, falling by $10 to $1,919 per ounce today but the Pakistani rupee remained stable against the greenback, increasing only fractionally by Rs0.01 and closing at Rs. 286.74 in the interbank market on Friday. The …

NEW YORK: The Biden administration could delay deciding whether to give electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers tradable credits for using electricity generated from renewable fuels, potentially putting the effort to boost EV automakers like Tesla (TSLA.O) in political limbo, two sources familiar with the matter said. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last year recommended adding EVs o the U.S. Renewable Fuel …

NEW YORK: A former chief financial officer of multiple special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for embezzling more than $5 million from them, and losing almost all of it trading meme stocks and cryptocurrencies. Cooper Morgenthau, 36, of Fernandina Beach, Florida,pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in January. He was …

ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar promised a delegation of prominent business leaders from Sialkot in Islamabad that he would support the business community and address their concerns on priority. The meeting took place at the Ministry of Commerce in Islamabad, was attended by prominent members of the Sialkot business community, including manufacturers, exporters, and traders. The discussion focused on …

BELEAGUERED bitcoin miners are finally feeling the spring sunshine after a cold, hard crypto winter. The power-hungry companies that pump new bitcoin into circulation have been thrown a lifeline by the cryptocurrency’s rally to above $30,000 this year, which has conspired with falling electricity prices to boost their profitability. The 30-day average of mining revenues has risen to $27.34 million …

WASHINGTON: The World Bank’s management has approved a plan to use some $1 billion in a frozen Afghanistan trust fund for education, agriculture, health and family programs, according to a bank paper and two sources, in what would be a major boost to efforts to ease the country’s worsening humanitarian and economic crises. The plan, outlined in the paper seen …