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The Chai Tattle - 12th February 2026

A brief summary of the economic market at end of day looking at indicators and metrics not found elsewhere.

A really bad day ensued on the equity market with 71% of the equities declining in value, the benchmark index dropped more than 2500 points, losses were of some magnitude. Liquidity increased but it was due to investors selling their positions.

Mean returns for all segments of the market were severely negative.

Top News

More than 1.4bn have been raised in the IPO for Ghani Dairies with an application of more than 43mn shares.

Pakistan has begun talks with external stakeholders to explore tokenization of assets.

Earnings

REV & NI figures are in 000's.

The PBA announced across the board plans to reduce the markup rate by 3% on the Export Refinance Facility in order to help exporters availing the facility.

279.79 PKR
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