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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 8 Reuters - Monday, March 8 Send IM Story Print KARACHI, March 8 - 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. Reuters plans to release a poll on the data by midday . * 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 firmed amid a lack of import payments and dealers said some exporters continued to sell dollars in the market. The rupee <PKR=> ended at 84.65/75 to the dollar on Saturday, compared with Friday's close of 84.56/66. * On Friday, the Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index <.KSE> rose 114.76 points, or 1.21 percent, to end at 9,626.29 points on turnover of 129.7 million shares. * The net inflow of foreign portfolio investment in the stock market was $10.05 million on Friday. [http://www.nccpl.com.pk/fipi-new/index.php] * U.S. stocks jumped and the Nasdaq hit an 18-month closing high on Friday as U.S. employers cut fewer jobs than expected last month and consumers showed signs of shedding their penny-pinching ways. The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> gained 122.06 points, or 1.17 percent, to end at 10,566.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> added 15.73 points, or 1.40 percent, to 1,138.70. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> rose 34.04 points, or 1.48 percent, to 2,326.35. [.N] * Oil extended gains toward $82 a barrel on Monday, buoyed by a weaker dollar and signs of an economic recovery in top oil consumer, the United States. Crude for April delivery <CLc1> rose 48 cents to $81.98 a barrel by 0306 GMT. On Friday, it rose as high as $82.07, the highest since $82.34 marked on Jan. 12. London Brent crude <LCOc1> was up 51 cents at $80.40. [O/R] * Gold ticked higher on Monday after a firmer euro spurred bargain hunting from investors seeking a safe haven from volatile currencies, while palladium held near its strongest level in more than two years. Gold <XAU=> traded as high as $1,136.85 an ounce and was at $1,133.97 by 0317 GMT, steady from New York's notional close on Friday, when bullion in euro terms jumped to a record at 838.26 euros on buying driven by a sovereign debt crisis in Greece. [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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