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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Real Man who wrote (5937)	4/9/2008 2:30:52 AM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

Germanys trade and account still running at a large surplus. DATA SNAP: German Feb Trade Surplus Narrows; Above Forecast Wed, Apr 9 2008, 06:05 GMT djnewswires.com DATA SNAP: German Feb Trade Surplus Narrows; Above Forecast By Emese Bartha Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Germany's trade and current account surpluses were wider than expected in February, data from the Federal Statistics Office showed Wednesday. Germany's trade surplus fell to EUR16.9 billion in February from EUR17.1 billion in January, the Statistics Office said, but the surplus was above economists' forecasts. The country's current account surplus rose to EUR15.4 billion in February from EUR14.7 billion in January, the Statistics Office said. The January current account data was revised down from a first estimate of EUR15.0 billion. Economists in a Dow Jones Newswires survey forecast a trade surplus of EUR16.0 billion and a current account surplus of EUR13.1 billion.