The current account deficit of the balance of payments widened by USD 0.8 billion to USD 3.2 billion (compared to USD 2.4 billion in September 2024).This is ...

To deal with international transactions and financial flows, economists use the Balance of Payments framework. In this video, I'll give you an introduction to that framework and show you what the two ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. A few years back, Silicon Valley Bank (and a few other regional banks) got into ...

The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance ...

Balance of payments records the value of the country's transactions with the rest of the world. It shows changes in financial claims on, and liabilities to, the rest of the world. International ...

India's balance of payments unexpectedly was in surplus in the April-June quarter, even as the current account deficit widened, but economists said this positive reading was likely an anomaly. MUMBAI, ...

Current account recorded €12 billion surplus in August 2025, down from €30 billion in previous monthCurrent account surplus amounted to €303 billion ...

In a recent paper, Marc Lavoie (2015) criticized my interpretation of the Eurozone (EZ) crisis as a balance of payments (BoP) problem. He identifies the original sin “in the setup and self-imposed ...