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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 Weekend Edition Singapore Asia Pacific World Pakistan - Market factors to watch - Dec 31 Reuters - Friday, December 31 Send IM Story Print KARACHI, Dec 31 - 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@thomsonreuters.com) 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) * Bank will be closed on Saturday. MARKET SNAPSHOTS * The rupee <PKR=> ended at 85.67/73 to the dollar, firmer than Wednesday's close of 85.81/88. [PKR/] * The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index <.KSE> ended 1.22 percent, or 145.44 points, higher at 12,031.46, its highest close since July 2008. Volume was 140 million shares compared with 99.78 million traded on Wednesday. [.KA] * Foreign investors bought shares worth a net $5 million on Thursday. * U.S. stocks closed slightly lower on Thursday as a trio of better-than-expected economic data wasn't enough to entice buyers to take on much risk in a market sitting on strong gains just before the new year. The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was down 15.67 points, or 0.14 percent, at 11,569.71. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was down 1.86 points, or 0.15 percent, at 1,257.92. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was down 3.95 points, or 0.15 percent, at 2,662.98. [.N] * Oil eased further below $90 on Friday on forecasts for warmer weather in the U.S. Northeast, the world's top heating oil market, and a smaller-than-expected drawdown in U.S. crude stocks. NYMEX crude for February <CLc1> fell 20 cents to $89.64 a barrel by 0149 GMT, adding to losses of more than a dollar the previous session. [O/R] * Gold edged up on the last trading day of the year, gearing towards its strongest annual gain in three years, supported by a languishing dollar and a firm outlook for precious metals into 2011. Spot gold <XAU=> gained 0.3 percent to $1,407.55 an ounce by 0301 GMT, on course for a 29 percent annual gain and a fifth straight month of gains. U.S. gold <GCG1> climbed up 0.2 percent to $1,408.3 an ounce. [GOL/] * For global market news, click on [MKTS/GLOB] * To see announcements of the Pakistan central bank's regular open market operations, please click on <SBPK09>. FOR A SPEED GUIDE ON PAKISTAN, CLICK ON <PAKISTAN> FOR PAKISTAN ECONOMIC INDICATORS, CLICK ON [ECI/PK] 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 ECONOMIC FX RELATED NEWS, HIT [FXNEWS] FOR WHAT INVESTORS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEALS [DEALTALK/] STOCKS - BUY OR SELL? 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