TOKYO : Japan's current account swung to a surplus in February, reflecting hefty returns on securities investments and easing some concerns about any weakening of the country's purchasing power, after the previous month's record deficit.
In February, a weak yen and rises in global interest rates helped drive the amount of primary income gains from Japanese investments overseas to a record amount, a MOF official said. "As a weak yen and commodity price hikes run their course, imports will be on decline, which will cause trade deficits to narrow," said Kenta Maruyama, economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting.
That reflected the trend in which the country increasingly earns income from capital parked abroad rather than sales of goods and services.
中國崛起來不是威脅了嗎？