People like Ken Rogoff talked about global imbalances in the current account deficit not being sustainable.
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This would mean countries with current account surpluses adopting policies that would consciously reduce these surpluses.
But now the current account deficit is no longer covered by foreign direct investment.
This is not the first time that a current account has been available at post offices.
Beyond mid-year, we expect a steady decline of the trade balance to reduce the current account.
South Africa's current account deficit stands at a 22-year high and totals 4.2% of GDP.
Lloyds must sell 600 branches, covering 4.6% of the entire UK current account market.
However, despite government backing, one in 12 UK households still do not have a current account.
He said capital inflows would be "more or less" adequate to cover the current account gap.
So as well as fiscal deficits, Russia could face current account deficits unless oil keeps climbing.
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However, he says, Paulson has not done enough to curb the ballooning U.S. current account deficit.
Current account deficits, though a concern in places like Malaysia and Thailand, are actually improving.
In contrast, the U.S. is a chronic importer with a chronic current account deficit.
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Eventually all 400 credit unions could provide a full current account service to 400, 000 members.
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According to the BCSB, 13 million people in the UK do not have a current account.
None of these countries has contributed in a significant way to global current account imbalances.
Thailand, whose whopping current-account deficit helped trigger the turmoil, is now running a monthly current-account surplus.
It turns out that the U.S. current account deficit has been easier to finance than pessimists think.
Euro membership makes adjustment to the required current account surpluses for these countries all the harder.
The RBI has cited the nation's yawning current account gap as another reason for not cutting rates.
The currency, informally known as the yuan, has been convertible on the current account since December 1996.
One of the key concerns among many analysts has been India's ballooning fiscal and current account deficits.
Thus the current account gives information about people's decisions as to what kind of assets to hold.
But the government will have to reduce the current account deficit and be wary of economic overheating.
Stateside, the trade imbalance between the values of what America imports and exports is known as the current account deficit.
Still elusive, however, are firm targets in current account surpluses or deficits aimed at easing trade imbalances.
That is in contrast with the US, with its large current account deficit and its borrowing from China.
Under the banking code, UK banks are supposed to allow all consumers to open a basic current account.
The trade balance and the broader current account balance are obviously key to what happens to the dollar.
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