Russian central bank says January 2025 current account deficit at $0.7 billion

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's current account deficit in January 2025 stood at $0.7 billion, compared with a surplus of $2.9 billion in January 2024 and a deficit of $1.6 billion in December 2024, the country's central bank said on Thursday.

The central bank data showed that the foreign trade surplus fell to $4.5 billion, compared with $5.6 billion in the previous month.

(Reporting by Elena Fabrichnaya, writing by Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Alex Richardson)

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