Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan surges by 68.2% MoM in September

MG News | October 16, 2020 at 03:58 PM GMT+05:00

0:00

October 16, 2020 (MLN): Pakistan witnessed Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) of $189 million during the month of September 2020, i.e. around 68.2% higher as compared to the net inflows of $112.3 million received in August 2020.

According to the monthly data compiled by the State Bank of Pakistan, the Foreign Private Investment into the country amounted to $156.8 million, wherein $189 million was attributed to Direct Investments, while disinvestment of $32.2 million was attributed to Equity Securities i.e. a part of Portfolio Investments.

Within the Direct Investments, there was an inflow of $268.8 million and an outflow of $79.8 million during the month.

Under the Foreign Public Investment, $21.9 million worth of investment witnessed in debt securities during September 2020 against the disinvestment of $6.3 million in August 2020.

All in all, the Foreign Investments in Pakistan during the month amounted to $178.7 million, registering a growth of 74% when compared to net inflows of $102.9 million recorded in August 2020.

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	138,597.36 256.32M	-0.05% -68.14
ALLSHR	85,286.16 608.38M	-0.48% -413.35
KSE30	42,340.81 77.13M	-0.03% -12.33
KMI30	193,554.51 76.19M	-0.83% -1627.52
KMIALLSHR	55,946.05 305.11M	-0.79% -443.10
BKTi	38,197.97 16.53M	-0.59% -225.01
OGTi	27,457.35 6.73M	-0.94% -260.91

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	117,670.00	121,165.00 117,035.00	-1620.00 -1.36%
BRENT CRUDE	69.23	70.77 69.14	-0.29 -0.42%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	96.50	0.00 0.00	2.20 2.33%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	104.50	104.50 104.50	-0.30 -0.29%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	998.50	998.50 998.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	66.03	67.54 65.93	-0.20 -0.30%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	16.79	17.02 16.71	0.05 0.30%