Current account deficit widens to $6.138 billion
Pakistan's current account deficit further widened to $6.138 billion during July-December 2007 compared to $4.679 billion in the same period of the last fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan data showed.
India's current account deficit widened to a record 4.8 percent of the country's gross domestic product in the financial year ended March 31, due to high imports of gold and oil and sluggish exports, official data showed Thursday.