Euro zone's current account deficit widens on soaring energy bill
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FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The euro zone's current account deficit widened in August as soaring energy costs pushed up the bloc's import bill, data from the European Central Bank showed on Thursday.
The currency bloc of 19 countries, which ran a current account surplus for years before Russia's war in Ukraine, recorded an adjusted deficit of 26.32 billion euros in August after a 19.96 billion deficit a month earlier.
In the 12 months to August, the euro zone's current account deficit equalled 0.1% of gross domestic product (GDP), down from a surplus of 2.8% in the preceding year.
(Reporting by Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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