Pakistan posts a 6-month Budget Deficit of 2.3% of GDP

MG News | February 14, 2020 at 11:37 AM GMT+05:00

Add Mettisglobal as a Trusted Source on Google

0:00

February 14, 2020 (MLN): Pakistan has posted a 6-month budget deficit of 2.3 percent of GDP, according to the data compiled by Finance Ministry.

The data further revealed that the 6-month primary balance of Pakistan stood at 0.7% of GDP.

During the first six months of the current Fiscal Year 2020, the total revenue amounted to Rs. 3.2 trillion, whereas total expenditure stood at Rs. 4.1 trillion. This resulted in a budgetary deficit of Rs. 0.9 trillion.

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Key Pakistan Market Stats and Economic Indicators

Diesel up Rs5.28, petrol Rs5.02 from September 12

Refiners get 45 days to save their tariff cushion

Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	170,511.86 278.75M	0.98% 1646.82
ALLSHR	103,203.80 682.99M	0.89% 908.76
KSE30	50,839.23 100.13M	1.18% 592.12
KMI30	243,245.60 147.66M	1.61% 3852.07
KMIALLSHR	66,892.15 407.33M	1.15% 757.54
BKTi	47,509.55 28.38M	0.77% 361.93
OGTi	34,789.19 8.38M	1.60% 547.02

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	77,380.00	77,640.00 76,375.00	-50.00 -0.06%
BRENT CRUDE	106.97	108.49 106.11	2.36 2.26%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	130.00	0.00 0.00	3.40 2.69%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	140.00	0.00 0.00	0.95 0.68%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,228.00	1,228.00 1,228.00	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	102.32	103.60 101.59	2.27 2.27%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	18.15	0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00%