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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Singapore Asia Pacific World PAKISTAN - Market factors to watch - March 9 Reuters - Tuesday, March 9 Send IM Story Print KARACHI, March 9 - Following is a list of events in Pakistan as well as news stories and press reports which may influence financial markets. (Reuters News welcomes your feedback and for any queries please contact Chris Allbritton in Islamabad editorial on +92-51 281 0017 or via email at chris.allbritton@thomsonreuters.com or on Reuters messaging chris.allbritton.reuters.com@reuters.net) WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PAKISTAN, ALL TIMES LOCAL FOLLOWED BY GMT: (The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will cover the event) * The Federal Bureau of Statistics is due to release monthly inflation data on or soon after Tuesday. * The bureau is due to release monthly foreign trade numbers on or soon after Wednesday. For the FBS website, click on * State Bank of Pakistan to sell 90.0 billion rupees worth of its 3-, 6-, and 12-month treasury bills on Wednesday. MARKET SNAPSHOTS * The rupee <PKR=> was slightly weaker at 84.68/78 to the dollar, compared with Saturday's close of 84.65/75. Dealers said there were few import payments in the market, and portfolio inflows had provided some support over recent days. The rupee ended at an all-time closing low last week and hit an all-time low of 85.15 last month. [PKR/] * Pakistani stocks ended more than 1 percent higher on Monday, despite a suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore, with the market enjoying a boost in confidence from foreign buying last week, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index <.KSE> rose 113.90 points, or 1.18 percent, to end at 9,740.19 points on turnover of 125.6 million shares. [.KA] * The net inflow of foreign portfolio investment in the stock market was $4.21 million on Monday. [http://www.nccpl.com.pk/fipi-new/index.php] * Technology shares pushed the Nasdaq higher on Monday on an otherwise flat day for U.S. stocks, led by BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and Cisco Systems. The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> dropped 13.68 points, or 0.13 percent, to end at 10,552.52. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> shed just 0.20 of a point, or 0.02 percent, to 1,138.50. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> gained 5.86 points, or 0.25 percent, to 2,332.21, its highest close in 18 months[.N] * Oil slid on Tuesday as forecasts for growing U.S. crude inventories tempered bullish sentiment about the global economic recovery, which had driven prices to an eight-week high above $82 a day earlier. Crude for April delivery <CLc1> fell 45 cents to $81.42 a barrel at 0245 GMT, after touching $82.41 on Monday, the highest level since prices jumped to a 15-month high of $83.95 on Jan. 11.[O/R] * Gold edged down on Tuesday as early bargain hunting subsided, and dealers said a weaker U.S. dollar was probably needed to help the metal break free from its current range. Spot gold <XAU=> hit an intraday high of $1,124.30 an ounce and was at $1,120.40 by 0253 GMT, down $2.45 from New York's notional close on Monday, when it fell 1 percent.[GOL/] * For global market news, click on [MKTS/GLOB] * To see announcements of Pakistan central bank's regular open market operations, please click on <SBPK09>. FOR A SPEED GUIDE ON PAKISTAN, CLICK ON <PAKISTAN> FOR A DIARY OF EVENTS IN PAKISTAN, SEE [PK/DIARY] FOR PAKISTAN ECONOMIC INDICATORS, CLICK ON [ECI/PK] FOR KARACHI INTERBANK RATES, SEE <KIBR> <KIBR01> FOR PAKISTAN OPEN MARKET CURRENCY RATES, CLICK ON [PKR/] FOR PAKISTAN COTTON RATES, SEE [COT/KAR] FOR PAKISTAN PORT ACTIVITY, CLICK ON [SHP/PK1][SHP/PK2] FOR KEY GLOBAL ECONOMIC NEWS, SEE [TOP/MACRO] FOR AN OUTLOOK OF ASIAN STOCK TRADING, CLICK ON [STXNEWS/AS] TOP NEWS ON ASIAN COMPANIES [TOP/EQA] FOR INTERNATIONAL FOREX NEWS, HIT [FXNEWS] FOR WHAT INVESTORS ARE SAYING ABOUT GLOBAL DEALS [DEALTALK/] GLOBAL STOCKS - BUY OR SELL? 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