US Q3 current acct gap narrowed to $135.04 b

Biz.Yahoo/Reuters ^ | December 16, 2003

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US Q3 current acct gap narrowed to $135.04 b
Tuesday December 16, 8:31 am ET

 WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. current account,
seasonally adjusted, as reported by the U.S. Commerce
Department.
 In Billions of Dlrs/Credits:
.                      Q3'03    Q2'03  Rev from     Q3'02
 Current Account     -135.04  -139.39  -138.67    -122.72
 Goods Balance       -136.23  -138.09  -137.98    -123.31
 Services Balance      14.92    13.90    14.57      16.33
 Invest.Income Bal.     2.60     1.73     1.68      -1.75
 Total Exports        322.01   311.79   311.00     313.94
 Goods Exports        177.86   174.25   174.03     174.32
 Services Exports      76.81    73.24    73.96      73.50
 In Billions of Dlrs/Credits:
.                      Q3'03    Q2'03  Rev from     Q3'02
 Total Imports       -440.74  -434.25  -432.73    -422.67
 Goods Imports       -314.09  -312.34  -312.01    -297.63
 Services Imports     -61.90   -59.33   -59.39     -57.17
 Govt. Transfers      -16.32   -16.94   -16.94     -14.00
 U.S.Assets Abroad     -4.89  -112.82  -106.67      29.71
 Foreign-Held Assets  128.20   262.82   255.27     141.48
 Net data--Govt. transfers, U.S. assets abroad and foreign-held
assets.
 FORECAST:
 Reuters survey of economists forecast:
 U.S. Q3 current account gap $136.10 bln

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The BEA report is at U.S. International Transactions: Third Quarter 2003

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