{"id":62830,"date":"2020-03-18T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62830"},"modified":"2020-03-18T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:16:15","slug":"foreign-investment-increased-513-fy2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-investment-increased-513-fy2019-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign investment increased by 513% in FY2019-20: SBP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday revealed that foreign investment levels were seen to increase by 512.9% (reaching USD 3.336 billion) in the first eight months of FY 2019-2020 \u2013 compared with USD 650.6 million recorded during the same period last year, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-all-time-high-foreign-investments-govt-securities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SBP records all-time-high foreign investments in govt securities (opens in a new tab)\">SBP records all-time-high foreign investments in govt securities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This increase is spurred from the USD 2.161 billion international investment in Pakistan\u2019s debt papers. The national investment bonds and treasury bills have attracted a lot of foreign investor since the beginning of this fiscal year \u2013 as high-interest rates were offering profitable carry trade prospects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fdi-increased-by-17-in-december-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FDI increased by 17% in December 2018 (opens in a new tab)\">FDI increased by 17% in December 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the foreign direct investment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/construction-sector-witnesses-surge-under-fdi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FDI (opens in a new tab)\">FDI<\/a>) jumped to USD 1.852 billion (75% increase) during July-February of FY2019-20, when compared with last year\u2019s figures. The FDI spiked to USD 562.6 million last month &#8211; as compared to USD 115.8 million registered in February 2019. The countries which contributed to the FDI were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>China (USD 696.5 million)<\/li><li>Norway (USD 288.5 million)<\/li><li>Malta (USD 148.2 million)<\/li><li>Hong Kong (USD 105.8\nmillion)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday revealed that foreign investment levels were seen to increase by 512.9% (reaching USD 3.336 billion) in the first eight months of FY 2019-2020 \u2013 compared with USD 650.6 million recorded during the same period last year, according to news sources. Read: SBP records all-time-high foreign investments in govt securities This increase is spurred from the USD 2.161 billion international investment in Pakistan\u2019s debt papers. The national investment bonds and treasury bills have attracted a lot of foreign investor since the beginning of this fiscal year \u2013 as high-interest rates were offering profitable carry trade prospects. Read: FDI increased by 17% in December 2018 Moreover, the foreign direct investment (FDI) jumped to USD 1.852 billion (75% increase) during July-February of FY2019-20, when compared with last year\u2019s figures. The FDI spiked to USD 562.6 million last month &#8211; as compared to USD 115.8 million registered in February 2019. The countries which contributed to the FDI were: China (USD 696.5 million) Norway (USD 288.5 million) Malta (USD 148.2 million) Hong Kong (USD 105.8 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[4578,23256,23257,21853],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-fdi","9":"tag-foreign-investment-increased-by-513-in-fy2019","10":"tag-foreign-investment-levels","11":"tag-state-bank-of-pakistan-sbp","12":"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>Foreign investment increased by 513% in FY2019-20 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Data released by the State Bank on Monday revealed that foreign investment levels were seen to increase by 512.9% (reaching USD 3.336 bn) in FY 2019-2020\" \/>\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\/foreign-investment-increased-513-fy2019-20.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foreign investment increased by 513% in FY2019-20 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Data released by the State Bank on Monday revealed that foreign investment levels were seen to increase by 512.9% (reaching USD 3.336 bn) in FY 2019-2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-investment-increased-513-fy2019-20.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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