Pakistan’s economic situation is changing: Reza Baqir
KARACHI: Pakistan's economy is facing with a number of problems and uncertainty but the situation is changing, said State Bank of Pakistan...
Google, Facebook, Amazon to testify in US against French digital tax
WASHINGTON: Alphabet Inc’s Google unit, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc are among the companies that will testify Monday at a US government hearing...
Recession indicator, trade pessimism sink dollar versus yen
NEW YORK: The Japanese yen jumped to a session high against the dollar on Wednesday after the US Treasury bond yield curve inverted...
Barclays ends partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase: sources
LONDON: Barclays is no longer providing banking services to major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, ending a relationship...
Facebook listened to users’ conversations: report
SILICON VALLEY: Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe snippets of users’ conversations, US media reported, amid heightened scrutiny...
Signs of hope in trade war as US delays new tariffs on Chinese electronics
BEIJING: US retailers and global financial markets got an early Christmas present Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration announced it is delaying tariffs...
Shrinking German economy ‘on edge of recession’ as exports stutter
BERLIN: Slumping exports sent Germany’s economy into reverse in the second quarter, with prospects of an early recovery slim as its manufacturers' struggle...
Oil prices fall on weak global economic data
LONDON: Oil prices fell on Wednesday on weak global economic data and a rise in US crude inventories, almost erasing the previous session’s...
Thai airlines’ losses widen on weak tourism, strong baht
BANGKOK: Bangkok Airways and smaller Thai carriers have reported surging second-quarter losses as they reeled from a decline in Chinese tourists and a...
China economy shows new signs of weakness with soft data
BEIJING: China's economy showed further signs of strain in July with output at its factories falling to its lowest level in 17 years,...
US aviation regulator bans select MacBook Pro laptops from flights
US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned certain models of Apple Inc’s MacBook Pro laptops on flights, after the company recalled select...
How do consultants, donors and Pakistani ministries solve problems?
The flood of 2010 showed me (I was Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commision then) how dysfunctional policy was in Pakistan and...
The meaning of culture
“I came to see during my time at IBM that culture is not just one aspect of the game, it is the...
Profit E-Magazine Issue 71
https://issuu.com/profitbypt/docs/binder1_1cb7ccef179619
Shortsighted moves on trade
There is absolutely no scenario in which Pakistan evolves from being the low-income country it is today to becoming a high-income or...