As Wall Street puts April’s tariff shakeout in the rearview mirror and indexes set record highs, investors remain wary of US President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire, sometimes chaotic policymaking process and…
US President Donald Trump’s signature tax break on tips promises relatively few upsides for low-income Americans, who face a net loss of income under his massive tax and spending bill…
Parliament’s constitutional ‘power of the purse’ is meant to anchor democratic control over public money, yet in Pakistan the reality rarely lives up to the principle. The constitution and the…
Investors are hopeful that US-China trade talks this weekend will cool a trade war between the world’s two largest economies and dispel some of the uncertainty clouding financial markets, though…
Banks, brokerages, investment managers and exchanges are adding staff to handle high trading volumes on and around Election Day with markets expected to become volatile as results come in. Political…
IF the floods were a natural calamity, Pakistan’s population explosion is no less than a man-made disaster. Dr Shershah Syed, a well-known gynaecologist, estimates that there are 75,000 pregnant women…
A STUDY on Maternal Stress and Health Quality of Life in Mothers with Special Needs Children, authored by Sara Jafree and Khadija Burhan of FCC University, Lahore, was published by…
Karl Marx popularized the quote “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. Given the quote, let us not forget that Earth has its needs too,…
Republicans and Democrats are touting a hastily-written debt ceiling deal that staves off a devastating US default, but does little to slow a massive buildup of total federal debt now…
Investors are increasingly seeking insurance against a sudden crash in stocks, fearing that more tumult is in store for markets after worries over the banking system shook asset prices over…
