(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Japan posted a record current account deficit in November, the government said Tuesday, underscoring the country's strength to earn money from abroad has been flagging with growing demand for energy at home and the yen's slide driving up import costs despite an expansion in exports.
The deficit in the balance, one of the widest gauges of international trade for a nation, stood at 592.8 billion yen about ($5.74 billion), the biggest among comparable data available since 1985, Japan's (Kyodo) News Agency reported citing a preliminary report of the Japanese Finance Ministr
The figure was much larger than the previous record of 455.6 billion yen marked in January 2012, the ministry said.
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