PRAGUE, June 7 (Reuters) - The Czech current account showed
a 477 million euro ($643.8 million) surplus in the first quarter
after a revised...
...fourth quarter deficit of 1.63 billion euros,
quarterly data released by the central bank showed on Thursday.
The rolling 12-month deficit widened a touch to 3.2 percent
of gross domestic product (GDP) from a downwardly revised 3.1
percent in the fourth quarter of last year, according to central
bank estimates.
Its preliminary data released in March put the deficit at
4.2 percent of GDP at the end of the fourth quarter.
KEY POINTS:
(brackets denote previously reported data)
(euros mln) Q1 2007 Q1-Q4 2006
Current Account 477.4 -3.561.4 (-4,719.4)
Financial Account -516.0 3,957.2 ( 3,937.9)
Net Direct Investment 937.2 3,686.7 ( 3,680.2)
(Full balance of payments table...................[nPRA001334]
- The quarterly figures are calculated under IMF methodology and
merely update and detail more closely-watched monthly data
that have already been reported for the period,
albeit under slightly different methodology used by the European
Central Bank (ECB).
BACKGROUND:
- For monthly balance of payments data, click on [ID:nL1889992]
- April foreign trade figures [ID:nL06479683]
- Report on last Czech c.bank rate decision [ID:nPRA001319]
[ID:nL31276683] [ID:nL31320495]
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