...than the 61.87 billion gap in the first six months of 2006, the central bank (NBS) said on Tuesday.
The NBS also revised upwards the current account gap for January-May to 17.09 billion crowns from an originally reported 12.40 billion crown deficit.
Analysts expect Slovakia's external balance to improve significantly this year due to rising production at new car factories of Kia Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen .
[BRATISLAVA/Reuters/Finance.cz]