The current account balance is one of those economic numbers that tends to linger in the backdrop these days. In the era of the Gold Standard and Bretton Woods system, when a country’s economic policy ...

IMF data for 2025 shows China as the world’s largest surplus economy. Its surplus jumped from $293 billion in 2015 to $641 ...

In a country where GDP is growing at a steady 6%, FDI is growing and external debt is falling, Bulgaria’s rapidly increasing current account deficit appears to be a black spot on the government’s ...

Britain’s current account deficit jumped to its highest level in almost a quarter of a century last year, leading analysts to suggest that the pound may need to fall further in order to get the ...

If, over the past few years, you had gathered a room full of economists together and asked them to pick out the countries they felt were most vulnerable to a crisis, it’s unlikely that the UK would ...

Tim Baker at Deutsche Bank argues the US’s larger current account deficit relative to other major economies reflects an expensive dollar. But President Donald Trump’s crusade to weaken the dollar and ...