SBP’s forex reserves fall to near four-year low
巴基斯坦央行的外汇储备降至近四年低点
KARACHI: The foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) plunged $784 million to a nearly four-year low of $6.72 billion during the week that ended on Dec 2, the central bank said on Thursday.
卡拉奇:周四,巴基斯坦央行表示,在截至12月2日的一周内,巴基斯坦国家银行(SBP)持有的外汇储备暴跌7.84亿美元,降至近四年来的低点67.2亿美元。
According to the central bank data, the SBP reserves were last recorded below this level during the week ended on Jan 18, 2019, when it had some $6.64bn.
根据巴基斯坦央行数据,SBP的储备最近一次低于这一水平是在截至2019年1月18日的一周,当时约为66.4亿美元。
Net foreign reserves held by commercial banks now stand at $5.867bn, meaning the country’s total liquid foreign reserves are now $12.58bn.
商业银行持有的净外汇储备目前为58.67亿美元,这意味着巴基斯坦的流动外汇储备总额目前为125.8亿美元。
Strengthening the foreign exchange reserves remained the top agenda of the new government since it took the helm in April. However, SBP’s reserves have since dropped by more than $4bn from around $10.9bn at the time.
自新政府4月上台以来,加强外汇储备一直是其首要议程。然而,自那以来,SBP的外汇储备已从当时的109亿美元左右减少了逾40亿美元。
Analyst say the falling reserves may make it more difficult for the country to repay foreign loans; the remaining amount of over $6.7bn is just enough to cover over a month’s imports.
分析人士说,外汇储备的下降可能会使该国更难偿还外国贷款,剩余的67亿多美元仅够支付一个多月的进口。
SBP Governor Jameel Ahmad said in a podcast on Thursday that during the last five months, inflows remained just $4bn but the figure was expected to rise in the second half of the current fiscal year ending June 2023.
SBP行长贾米尔·艾哈迈德周四在表示,在过去5个月里,流入巴基斯坦的资金仍仅有40亿美元,但预计在截至2023年6月的本财年下半年,这一数字将上升。
巴基斯坦黎明报读者的评论:
Pursuing
All black money belonging to sharif family has now been laundered abroad, mission accomplished by Ishaq dar, default is now in sight!
所有属于谢里夫家族的黑钱现在都在国外洗白了,伊沙克达尔完成了任务,违约就在眼前!
DEMAGOGUE
The onus of responsibility lies on PDM & Company. The inflation from root level to high level expenditures, all sky high. Uncertainty and instability both traveling to higher peaks. Those incharge in Islamabad must take care to bail out Pakistan from quagmires. Once again reach out to friends with SOS May Day May Day.
PDM要负责。通货膨胀非常高,不确定性和不稳定性都达到了更高的峰值。伊 斯兰堡的掌权者必须小心翼翼地将巴基斯坦从泥潭中解救出来。再次通过发出SOS,向朋友们求救。
Emad
Foreign Reserves (December, 2022) :-
Pakistan: $6.7 billion.
Bangladesh: $34.0 billion.
外汇储备(2022年12月)
巴基斯坦:67亿美元。 孟加拉国:340亿美元。
Frank
Now we understand why LC’s are being refused and cargo stranded at ports, state is on verge of default.
现在我们明白为什么信用证被拒绝,货物滞留在港口,国家处于违约的边缘。
SAMA
Better and better
What a mess
And you want war with India?????
With no money for food?
真是一团糟,没钱买食物,还想和印度开战?
Dr. Ayaz (UC Berkeley)
Default is not the end of the world - It is just a planned reform process to help put the economy back on the tracks. Greece and Argentina have defaulted multiple times but now after reforms they are getting back on the growth path. And they have managed a decent quality of life through default.
违约不是世界末日——这只是一个有计划的改革进程,旨在帮助经济重回正轨。希腊和阿根廷曾多次违约,但如今经过改革,它们正重回增长轨道。他们通过拖欠债务,过上了不错的生活。
Punisher
Meanwhile India’s forex reserves near all time high at $632 billion.
与此同时,印度的外汇储备接近历史最高水平,达到6320亿美元。
Zak
Out of $6.7bn forex reserves, $3B are KSA deposits and $2.3B are Chinese deposits given in June 2022 so actually SBP has less than $1.4B available to pay for imports.
在67亿美元的外汇储备中,30亿美元是沙特阿拉伯的存款,23亿美元是2022年6月中国存的款,因此实际上SBP只有不到14亿美元可用于支付进口。
PakPro
Thanks PDM. Just go ahead and blame IK and everybody will be happy.
这都多亏了PDM。继续指责伊姆兰吧,每个人都会高兴的。
Zak
Where is the money to pay for Russian wheat and discounted Russian Oil ?
哪里有钱买俄罗斯小麦和打折的俄罗斯石油?
Toshkhana KhaGaya Khan
Pakistan was surviving on US money since 1980's but Pakistan bit the hand that was feeding it. With US money gone, the forex reserves are virtually empty now.
自20世纪80年代以来,巴基斯坦一直依靠美国的资金生存,但巴基斯坦却恩将仇报。随着美国资金的流失,其外汇储备现在实际上是空的。
Fastrack
Taliban is running Afghanistan without any financial crisis while Pakistan has CPEC, IMF bailouts still begging bowl is always out.
塔利班管理着阿富汗,没有任何金融危机,而巴基斯坦有中巴经济走廊和国际货币基金组织的援助,却仍在乞讨。
Light at the end of the tunnel
Given the political and economic instability, this is hardly news.
考虑到巴基斯坦政治和经济的不稳定,这算不上新闻。
Salim
The sole agenda of PDM has been achieved. Their money is now safe. Who cares about Pakistan?
PDM的唯一议程已经实现。他们的钱现在安全了。谁在乎巴基斯坦?
ABC
Keep watching as the 20 billions forex reserves left by the previous Government are now at the 4 years lowest level.
继续看吧,上届政府留下的200亿外汇储备,现在却跌到了4年来的最低水平。
Salman
What a disaster.
真是灾难啊。
Waseem Khan
Pakistan has been like a credit card for the Sharif family that is about to get maxed out and SBP have no minimum payments left to make. People who brought over this imported government is responsible for this mess, the public have no option left but to adapt to the Lankan script of running over the current setup and claim this country back.
巴基斯坦就像谢里夫家族的一张信用卡,即将刷爆,而SBP已经没有最低还款额了。推选这个政府的人要为这场混乱负责,公众别无选择,只能适应斯里兰卡的剧本,推番当前的体制,把这个国家夺回来。
Constantine
Only 6.72? You people need to get your act together otherwise bad things will happen.
只有67.2亿美元吗?你们这些人需要团结起来,否则后果不堪设想。
John the Baptist
Please buy more F16s!
多买些F-16战机吧!
Neutral
Danger zone. Time to leave the country before civil war breaks out.
危险区。是时候在内战爆发前离开这个国家了。
Simba
No worries -ses to be plenty of money to buy military toys.
不用担心,有足够的钱买武器。
Simba
Near bankrupt situation.
濒临破产的境地。