石油进口放缓帮助英国贸易赤字在10月份降至7个月来最低

UK trade deficit hits seven-month low in October, helped by slower oil imports 

Britain’s goods trade deficit narrowed in October to its lowest level in seven months, helped by lower fuel imports and a slight rise in exports, official data showed.

The Office for National Statistics said the deficit shrank slightly less than expected to 9.620 billion pounds from 10.506 billion pounds in September, when a rise in oil helped to widen the shortfall.

Economists had forecast a gap of 9.5 billion pounds in October.

Exports in the month edged up to 24.336 billion pounds, helped by sales of silver to India, while imports fell by nearly 700 million pounds.

Source：Reuters

Date：2014.12.11

石油进口放缓帮助英国贸易赤字在10月份降至7个月来最低

    官方数据显示，得益于燃油进口减少、出口小幅增加，英国货物贸易赤字在10月份降至7个月来的最低水平。

    国家统计局表示，赤字从9月份的105.06亿英镑下降至略低于预期的96.20亿英镑，主要是石油出口增长扩大了缺口。

    经济学家已经预测10月份的赤字缺口有95亿英镑。

   得益于向印度出口的白银，10月份出口上升至243.36亿英镑，同时进口则下降了近7亿英镑。

来源：Reuters

日期：2014年12月11日