LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), December 14 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's current account surplus increased to 2.67 billion euro ($3.2 billion) in the ten months through October 2017 from 2.02 billion euro in the same period last year, central bank data showed on Thursday.
In October alone, Slovenia's current account balance recorded a 400.1 million euro surplus, up from 252.3 million euro in October 2016.
Slovenia's trade surplus expanded to 1.54 billion euro in January-October from 1.44 billion euro in the corresponding period of last year.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
|
Jan-Oct'17 |
Jan-Oct'16 |
Oct'17 |
Oct'16 |
Current account |
2,666.2 |
2,016.8 |
400.1 |
252.3 |
- goods |
1,541.9 |
1,444.1 |
249.8 |
134.2 |
- services |
2,250.9 |
1,875.4 |
269.3 |
226.9 |
- primary income |
-891.4 |
-1,030.0 |
-110.4 |
-94.4 |
- secondary income |
-235.2 |
-272.7 |
-8.6 |
-14.4 |
Financial account |
1,926.6 |
-314.9 |
253.3 |
-1288.2 |
- direct investment |
-302.8 |
-924.9 |
14.3 |
55.8 |
($=0.8447 euro)