Reserves number highlighting containment of C/A deficit

News Image

MG News | November 08, 2018 at 07:12 PM GMT+05:00

By Muzzammil Aslam

The Foreign reserves dropped by USD 228 million during the last two weeks out of which commercial banks reserves dipped USD 83 million. Adjusted SBP reserves declined came in at USD 145 million.

This is very important to consider, assuming no foreign flows poured in the last two weeks, should we assume current account deficit took a huge fall? In my opinion this is likely. Post devaluation and interim budget already markets witnessed a massive slowdown and sales number are not encouraging.

Sentimentally, this is bad and good news. The good news is obviously slowdown in reserves leakage, but bad news is slowdown in economic growth and may spark shortfall in tax revenues, as import slowdown may be the factor behind this.

 

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Name Price/Vol %Chg/NChg
KSE100 168,474.94
54.35M
-0.54%
-917.39
ALLSHR 101,832.21
161.60M
-0.41%
-414.56
KSE30 50,140.43
32.64M
-0.65%
-327.67
KMI30 239,937.04
23.70M
-0.49%
-1171.71
KMIALLSHR 66,064.01
72.91M
-0.27%
-181.49
BKTi 46,628.93
16.52M
-0.77%
-363.37
OGTi 34,435.75
2.04M
-0.15%
-53.18
Symbol Bid/Ask High/Low
Name Last High/Low Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES 75,935.00 76,145.00
75,140.00
-230.00
-0.30%
BRENT CRUDE 107.86 108.59
107.50
-0.89
-0.82%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY 130.00 0.00
0.00
2.75
2.16%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY 138.50 138.50
138.50
-0.80
-0.57%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN 1,228.00 1,228.00
1,228.00
0.00
0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI 104.40 105.63
104.23
-1.43
-1.35%
SUGAR #11 WORLD 17.98 18.30
17.88
-0.18
-0.99%

Chart of the Day


Latest News
September 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM GMT+05:00

Bawany Air Products sets Rs6bn rights issue at 73% discount


September 16, 2026 at 10:54 AM GMT+05:00

Govt borrows Rs328bn debt in a week


September 16, 2026 at 10:41 AM GMT+05:00

M2 rises by Rs449bn in a week


September 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM GMT+05:00

Oil holds above $108 amid Middle East supply fears



Top 5 things to watch in this week

Pakistan Stock Movers
Name Last Chg/%Chg
Name Last Chg/%Chg