Economic & financial indicators

ECONOMY

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ECONOMY China's 12-month trade surplus narrowed to $28.7 billion in November, 30% less than a year earlier. Poland's 12-month trade deficit narrowed to $13.6 billion in October. Russia's 12-month current-account surplus soared to $15.9 billion in the second quarter. Its consumer-price inflation slowed to 50.3% in the year to November.

This article appeared in the Economic & financial indicators section of the print edition under the headline “ECONOMY”

Bleak and bloody Russia

From the December 18th 1999 edition

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