{"id":32506,"date":"2020-08-11T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=32506"},"modified":"2020-08-11T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:31:38","slug":"japan-current-account-surplus-narrows-to-5-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-current-account-surplus-narrows-to-5-year-low\/08\/11\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Current Account Surplus Narrows to 5-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s current account surplus narrowed to the lowest level in five years in\u00a0June as exports took a hit due to the Covid-19 on global demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current account surplus was JPY 167.5 billion ($1.58 billion), the smallest monthly surplus since January 2015, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.\u00a0\u00a0While the actual figure bettered the median forecast for a JPY 110 billion surplus, it marked a significant deterioration from a JPY 1.177 trillion surplus in May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current account has posted monthly surpluses for six straight years.\u00a0\u00a0Exports plunged 25.7% in June from a year ago, having declined by 28.9% in May, while imports dropped an annual 14.4%, following a 27.7% annual fall in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s current account surplus narrowed to the lowest level in five years in\u00a0June as exports took a hit due to the Covid-19 on global demand. The current account surplus was JPY 167.5 billion ($1.58 billion), the smallest monthly surplus since January 2015, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.\u00a0\u00a0While the actual figure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6939],"class_list":["post-32506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32529,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506\/revisions\/32529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}