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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Financial Measure Showed Gain: The nation’s October current account surplus, the broadest measure of financial flows in and out of the country, rose 1.4% to $11.252 billion on a non-seasonally adjusted year-on-year basis, the Ministry of Finance said. October’s current account surplus marks the fifth consecutive month of year-on-year increases in dollar terms. In May, 1993, the current account surplus was revised to register a year-on-year drop of 1.7%.
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