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Elsewhere French Connection added 0.25p to 63.25p after the fashion retailer reporting improved results, with an annual loss of £4.4m compared to a deficit of £7.2m a year earlier.
In 2014, the U.S. had a $30.9 billion trade surplus in goods with these countries, compared to a deficit of $2.8 billion in the year before each trade deal was in force.
In the first eight months of 2012, the euro area ran a surplus of €46.9 billion, compared to a deficit of €26.8 billion during the same period in 2011.
Already the world's most indebted OECD country by far, Japan has in recent years been adding to the deficit at clip exceeded only by the U.S. Japan's fiscal deficit in FY2011 was 10percentt of the GDP, compared to a deficit of 10.8percentt of GDP in the U.S., 8.6percentt in the UK, 6.0percentt in France, 4.3percentt in Italy, and 2.3percentt in Germany.
According to the Bank of Korea, the country's services account recorded a surplus of USD 2.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, compared to a deficit of USD 4.5 billion last year.
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The Greek government registered a record budget surplus equal to 0.80% of the country's GDP in 2017, compared to a record deficit of -15.10% of GDP in 2009.
The euro zone posted a provisional trade deficit of 100 million euros ($140 million) in June, compared to a revised deficit of 3.9 billion euros ($5.7 billion) in May, the European Union statistics office, Eurostat, said.
The last SNP manifesto stated: "During 2008-09, in the middle of the recent severe recession, Scotland was in surplus to the tune of £1.3bn, compared to a UK deficit of £48.9bn.
"Compared to a trade deficit of $10 billion just a few years back, this marks a huge turnaround in the country's finances," said Doug Smith, chief economist for the Americas at Standard Chartered Bank in New York.
Thanks to Guardian graphic artist Jenny Ridley, we can see how that spending fits together - and how anything less than a billion is really not that much in government terms - particularly compared to a budget deficit of £110bn for 2010/11.
As of 2004, America's intellectual property surplus with the rest of the world came to a mere $29 billion—a drop in the bucket compared to a current account deficit of $668 billion.
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