Washington, November 5 The United States treasury department Monday declared that the federal government would borrow $531 billion from the market to fund its operation in six months starting Oct one, an official statement said.

During the October-December quarter of this year, the department expected to issue $266 billion in web marketable debt, assuming an end-of-December cash balance of one hundred forty billion dollars.

It is also expected to issue $265 billion in web marketable debt in the first 3 months of next year, assuming an end-of-March cash balance of $45 billion, the department said in a statement.

The United States federal government budget deficit fell to $680 billion for the 2013 year ending Sept thirty, a drop of $409 billion from the previous financial year. it’s the first time since the 2008 financial year that the annual budget deficit has fallen below $1 trillion, according to a separate report of the department.