Pakistan

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has published "due diligence" guidance urging companies to use extra care when exporting to Pakistan. BIS has stepped up its attention toward Pakistan after the agency's Office of Export Enforcement investigations "revealed...

Nightmarish urban gridlock is fueling a bumper crop of on-demand bus startups that seek to get drivers out of their single occupancy vehicles and into more efficient mass transit options. Airlift, based in Lahore, Pakistan, is the latest enterprise to attract interest from investors, who have sunk...

The Global X MSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSE: PAK) is up 8.3 percent year-to-date, a solid performance among the single-country exchange traded funds dedicated to nations classified as frontier markets. PAK: Purely Pakistan However, Pakistan will not be a frontier market for long and the country's...

Among ex-US investable markets, few are regarded as being as rough and tumble as Pakistan. However, Pakistani equity markets have rewarded investors for taking on the perception of increased risk. Over the past year, the Global X MSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSE: PAK), the lone U.S.-listed exchange traded...

Donald Trump as U.S. president could mean “an overhaul in the US-Pak relations,” analysts at AKD Research said in a report. According to the report, “In this backdrop, Pakistan has done well by diversifying its foreign relations towards Russia and China’s ongoing ambitions...

As taxi hailing giant Uber enters Pakistan, it has to compete with a little-known local competitor Rixi, which targets low income residents and bets on autorickshaws not cabs. Reuters said the service hails rickshaws instead of cars. Its platform isn't smartphones, but older SMS phone...

Gainers Pakistan: Global XMSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSE: PAK) is up 5.67 percent after receiving MSCI's Emerging Markets Index approval. Peru: iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund(NYSE: EPU) is up 2.15 percent after Kuzynski won Peru's nail-biting election. Philippines: iShares MSCI Philippines...

After the close of U.S. markets Tuesday, index provider MSCI Inc (NYSE: MSCI) released its annual market classification. Most investors awaiting the MSCI news were focusing on the index provider's decision on whether or not to include China A-shares in its emerging markets benchmarks, but there...

The iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (NYSE: KSA), the lone exchange-traded fund dedicated to stocks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nation, is down nearly 1.1 percent year-to-date, a disappointing performance when noting the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP (NYSE: BNO) is higher by 19.5...

Ever wondered what the leading exports of Antarctica or North Korea or the Solomon Islands are? Well you've come to the right place. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons and the Observatory of Economic Complexity, Benzinga has compiled an array of export tree maps from countries and regions around the...