Skyrocketed Inflation and Trade Deficit Crashes Stock Market

100 Index down by more then 2000 points, trade deficit rises to $5.1B in November, up 162%, rupee depreciates by 15% in 5 months.

The skyrocketing inflation and trade deficit in the country took the Pakistan stock market. The market crashed with a decrease of 2053 points in the Hundred Index. Billions of rupees of investors sank. The Hundred Index is trading at the level of 43,315.

Economists and analysts have blamed skyrocketing inflation and a possible trade deficit and possible rise in interest rates for the stock market’s stagnation. Experts said that due to rising inflation, interest rates may rise, the market is declining due to fears of rising interest rates while the trade deficit has also reached record levels.

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Senior journalist and anchor person Kamran Khan Kamran Khan wrote in his tweet that the Pakistan Stock Exchange is like a disaster, the market fell by 2,000 points and 4%. Kamran Khan attributed the decline in the market to a 162 per cent increase in the trade deficit in November, a sharp rise in the secondary market rate and a 15 per cent devaluation of the rupee in five months. He wrote that the national debt has reached Rs. 50 trillion which has increased by Rs. 20 trillion in 3 years.

Kamran Khan had earlier written in a tweet how Imran Khan would defend that the debt burden on every Pakistani during his three years in power has increased from 133,000 to 235,000 rupees. He wrote that the debt of the government of Pakistan has gone up to Rs. 50 trillion, of which Rs.

Shahbaz Rana, a senior journalist who keeps an eye on the economy, also attributed the rise in trade deficit and skyrocketing inflation to the stock market stagnation. Shahbaz Rana wrote in his tweet that the stock market was once again bathed in blood. The market has fallen by 2,000 points so far. The huge increase in trade deficit and inflation is skyrocketing. The people do not believe the words of the top officials.

Senior journalist Rizwan Razi has claimed that for the first time in the 74-year history, the stock market has seen a loss of 2,000 points in one day.

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