c/a deficit down to $2.981b

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistans current account deficit in the first 11 months of the 2009/10 fiscal year was a provisional $2.981 billion, the SBP said on Thursday. That compared with a deficit of $8.679 billion in the same period last year, the State Bank of Pakistan said. Pakistan recorded a provisional current account surplus of $136 million in May compared with a provisional deficit of $252 million in April.

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