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Currency Rates in Pakistan Open Market Dollar Rate of Dollar, Pound, Riyal – 1 July 2025
Pakistani Rupee remains under pressure as PKR depreciates slighlty against major foreign currencies in open market. On July 1, 2025, US Dollar is being bought at Rs285.25 and sold at Rs286.25, amid demand for the greenback amid economic...

Currency Exchange Rates in Pakistan Today – 1 July 2025
KARACHI – Pakistani rupee has recorded slight changes against various foreign currencies in open market as the buying and selling prices of Euro, Saudi Riyal and UK Pound witnessed slight changes. On July 1, US Dollar’s buying rate stood at...
Market exchange rates in China -- July 1
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 25 major currencies announced on Tuesday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in...

Credila Financial Services IPO to hit the market soon
Credila Financial Services, one of the largest providers of education loans to Indian students pursuing their studies overseas, is set to make its debut on the Indian stock exchange with an IPO of Rs 5,000 crore. Investors should decide whether to...

Zebralution promotes William Hallström to head of international business development
Independent digital distributor Zebralution has revealed key promotions and new appointments at the company. “These changes reflect the company’s dedication to strengthening its international reach and expanding its ability to serve the evolving...

Shocked Stockholm: Notorious ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ Criminal Dies at 78 – URGENT NEWS
Arvika (671 31) – Clark Olofsson, the infamous Swedish criminal whose actions helped coin the once‑controversial term “Stockholm syndrome,” died on June 24 at age 78 in Arvika Hospital after a prolonged illness, his family confirmed. Born in...
Regulation and growth: Lessons from nearly 50 years of product market reforms
After two decades of weak productivity growth, policymakers across the OECD maintain a keen interest in understanding the sources of the productivity slowdown. One key driver is the stance of product market regulation (Blanchard and Giavazzi 2001,...

Depth NHL free-agency targets: The 12 best players on the secondary market
In the flat cap era, the secondary free-agent market was a robust source of talent that clever NHL teams mined systematically to flesh out their depth. Under general manager Bill Zito, of course, the Florida Panthers became the poster team for...

Wild add former nemesis Vladimir Tarasenko in trade with Detroit
During the decade-plus he spent with the St. Louis Blues, fans at Xcel Energy Center didn’t care much for Vladimir Tarasenko. The crafty Russian forward was a thorn in the Minnesota Wild’s side during countless Central Division meetings, and in a...

Autoliv Announces Departure of Chief Financial Officer
STOCKHOLM, June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Autoliv, Inc. (NYSE: ALV) and (SSE: ALIVsdb), the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, today announced that Fredrik Westin has decided to resign as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice...

France's BNP Paribas acquires HSBC's custody business in Germany
AK&M 30 June 2025 17:43 BNP Paribas, through its Securities Services division, has entered into an agreement to acquire the depository operations division of HSBC Continental Europe S.A. in Germany. This is reported in a press release from BNP...

Noise from Vancouver miner's deep-sea operations could threaten Pacific marine life, studies say (Business)
Photo: Paul Hilton / Greenpeace. A pod of sperm whales move into a defence line to stop a pod of killer whales getting to their calf, off the coast of Sri Lanka. Researchers in an area targeted for deep sea mining recently observed the threatened...

Dollar nears 4-year low vs. euro as tax bill, trade fears mount
REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION/FILE PHOTO U.S. dollar, euro and pound banknotes are seen in this illustration on May 4. NEW YORK>> The dollar hit a near four-year low against the euro today amid worries over the rising U.S. government deficit and...

IFS acquires autonomous AI agent company TheLoops
June 30, 2025, Linköping, Sweden — Enterprise cloud and industrial AI software provider IFS has acquired TheLoops, an autonomous AI agent technology company. The company will apply TheLoops agentic capabilities in the industrial setting, making...

Not Just Shock Absorbers: How ASEAN Is Shaping the China Trade Balance
China’s recent manufacturing resurgence – dubbed the “Second China Shock” — has prompted fears of deindustrialization across Southeast Asia. Writing in The Straits Times last month, Ravi Velloor argued that China’s dominance in sectors from...

The bridge changing lives and boosting business
Maddy SavageBusiness reporter Reporting fromCopenhagen & Malmö ShareSave Laurine Deschamps lives in Malmö and works in Copenhagen One of Europe's most iconic transport landmarks, the Öresund bridge, which connects Denmark and Sweden, is...

Market moves: Supplier activity picking up as key mergers finalized
Business sales activity rose slightly in June from May but remains well below 2024 levels. Most activity came in the supplier sector as dealers and aftermarket acquisition pace remains soft amid market softness. The first transaction of note in...

“Isms” Have Hijacked Economics. It Needs Fresh, Creative Thinking Now.
Of late, economics has lost credibility. So much so that Yale University Press published What’s Wrong with Economics?, a book by Lord Robert Skidelsky. This noted and colorful British economic historian found that “a narrowing of vision and a...

Nominations open for Global Trade and Business Awards after high-profile media launch
The stage is officially set for the 2025 edition of the Global Trade and Business Awards (GTBA), following a successful media launch held on Friday, June 13, 2025, at the Golden Crystal Hotel in East Legon. The event brought together high-profile...

Gas Camouflage: How Russia is Trying to Re-Enter the EU Market — Attempt No. 2
2A number of European energy companies that have won, or expect to win, arbitration cases against Gazprom for failing to meet contracted gas supply volumes in 2021–2022 are now faced with the question of how to recover funds. These are significant...