{"id":103933,"date":"2025-11-14T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=103933"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:54:33","slug":"fx-reserves-rise-to-usd-14-525-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fx-reserves-rise-to-usd-14-525-bn.html","title":{"rendered":"FX reserves rise to USD 14.525 bn amid strong remittances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) increased by USD 22 million to USD 14.525 billion during the week ending November 7, the central bank reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s total liquid foreign reserves also rose by USD 60 million to USD 19.724 billion, while the reserves of commercial banks increased by USD 39 million to USD 5.199 billion. Analysts said the growth in reserves has been supported by strong remittance inflows and the SBP\u2019s purchases of dollars from the market, despite ongoing pressures from rising imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-keeps-key-rate-steady-upgrades-gdp-forecast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SBP keeps key rate steady, upgrades GDP forecast for FY26<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remittances to Pakistan reached USD 3.4 billion in October, up 11.9 percent from a year earlier. During the first four months of the fiscal year 2026, cash sent home by Pakistanis abroad rose 9.3 percent to USD 12.96 billion from USD 11.9 billion in the same period last year. Experts expect remittances to exceed USD 41 billion in FY26, providing support to the current account balance amid a growing trade deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in reserves comes ahead of Pakistan\u2019s expected receipt of USD 1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on December 9, following approval by the IMF Executive Board of two concurrent programmes\u2014the USD 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the USD 1.4 billion Resilience and Sustainability Fund (RSF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) increased by USD 22 million to USD 14.525 billion during the week ending November 7, the central bank reported on Thursday. The country\u2019s total liquid foreign reserves also rose by USD 60 million to USD 19.724 billion, while the reserves of commercial banks increased by USD 39 million to USD 5.199 billion. Analysts said the growth in reserves has been supported by strong remittance inflows and the SBP\u2019s purchases of dollars from the market, despite ongoing pressures from rising imports. Read: SBP keeps key rate steady, upgrades GDP forecast for FY26 Remittances to Pakistan reached USD 3.4 billion in October, up 11.9 percent from a year earlier. During the first four months of the fiscal year 2026, cash sent home by Pakistanis abroad rose 9.3 percent to USD 12.96 billion from USD 11.9 billion in the same period last year. Experts expect remittances to exceed USD 41 billion in FY26, providing support to the current account balance amid a growing trade deficit. The increase in reserves comes ahead of Pakistan\u2019s expected receipt of USD 1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on December 9, following approval&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":103519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[62970,7498,49647,67848,7793,69262,11728,32,34475,4579,69254,6066,2631,38727,69260,69261],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-central-bank","9":"tag-economic-growth","10":"tag-extended-fund-facility","11":"tag-fiscal-year-2026","12":"tag-foreign-exchange-reserves","13":"tag-fx-reserves","14":"tag-imf","15":"tag-pakistan","16":"tag-pakistan-economy","17":"tag-remittances","18":"tag-resilience-and-sustainability-fund","19":"tag-sbp","20":"tag-state-bank-of-pakistan","21":"tag-trade-deficit","22":"tag-usd-1-2b","23":"tag-usd-14-525b","24":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FX reserves rise to USD 14.525 bn - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Analysts said the growth in reserves has been supported by strong remittance inflows and the SBP\u2019s purchases of dollars...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fx-reserves-rise-to-usd-14-525-bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FX reserves rise to USD 14.525 bn - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Analysts said the growth in reserves has been supported by strong remittance inflows and the SBP\u2019s purchases of dollars...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fx-reserves-rise-to-usd-14-525-bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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