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Kuwait Current Account Surplus $10b
The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said on Wednesday that the current domestic account posted a surplus at KD 3.2 billion ($10.5 billion) in Q2 2019 against KD 2.6 billion ($8.5 billion) in the year’s Q1.
The CBK reported in a press release, marking issuance of preliminary data of Kuwait balance of payments for Q2 2019 and the amended data for Q1, a 21.4 percent growth in Q2, reaching KD 528 million ($1.7 billion).
It alluded growth of the balance of payments to a rise of debts’ payments in Q2, estimated at KD 568.4 million ($1.8 billion), 5.9 percent compared to the Q1. The growth increase was also as a result of decline of collected debts dues, estimated at KD 40 million ($132 million).
Initial data of the balance of payments, in Q2, showed rise of the value of the commodity balance by KD 287.5 million ($948.7 million), 10 percent, as compared to Q1, where the surplus value reached some KD three billion ($9 billion).
The services account posted a drop in the deficit value in Q2 by KD 326.8 million ($1 billion), compared to the KD 2 billion ($6.6 billion) deficit in Q1. As to the financial account, the initial statistics showed that the net value of the external assets for residents amounted to KD 184 million ($607 billion), in contrast to Q1.
The assets dropped in Q2 by KD 184 million ($607 billion) compared to Q1. As a result of developments in the main accounts of the balance, its overall status posted, in Q2, a surplus amounting KD 1.3 billion ($4 billion), against KD 2.1 billion ($6.9 billion) in Q1.
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SOURCE : ARABTIMES
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