Japan’s current account surplus shrank in January from a year earlier for two months in a row, as higher oil prices amid tension over Iraq pushed up import figures and eroded the trade surplus.
The current account surplus came to 427.1 billion yen, down 37.6 percent, compared with a 1.4 percent fall in December, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday in a preliminary report.
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