EU CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUS DROPS.

The EU28 seasonally adjusted external current account registered a surplus of 31.4 billion (1% of GDP) in the third quarter of 2013, down from a surplus of 46.3 bn (1.4% of GDP) in the second quarter of 2013 and from a surplus of 33.3 bn (1% of GDP) in the third quarter of 2012, Eurostat estimated, on 23 January. Based on non-seasonally adjusted data for its main partners, the EU28 registered external...