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Pakistani stocks floor removal after IMF approval
Reuters - 1 hour 14 minutes ago
KARACHI, Dec 3 - A floor on Pakistan's main stock index imposed in August after sharp falls will be removed after reaching understandings with the International Monetary Fund, according to a letter of intent posted on the IMF website.
Stock market trading has dried up since the floor was imposed after a fall of nearly 35 percent for the year. The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark 100-share index <.KSE> was trading flat at 9,187.10, just 43 points above the floor, in early trade.
"The timing and terms under which the floor on stock prices will be removed,including any use of public funds to support the stock market, will be decided after reaching understandings with Fund staff," according to a government letter of intent posted on the IMF website.
The letter also said the floor would not be removed until a stock market support fund was in place.
The stock-market regulator in October approved a 20 billion rupees fund being set up by the government to support stock prices when the floor is removed.
KSE Managing Director Adnan Afridi told Reuters he had yet to hear any news of the fund.
The IMF approved of a loan of $7.6 billion last week to avert a balance of payments crisis and prevent the government defaulting on its international debt obligations.
Pakistan got immediate access to the $3.1 billion under the 23-month facility with the rest to be phased in subject to quarterly review.
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