PRAGUE: The Czech current account showed a surplus of 38.7 million crowns ($1.85 million) in November, smaller than expected, central bank data showed on Monday.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a surplus 1.0 billion crowns after a 14.99 billion crown surplus in October.
Dividend paid abroad in November reached 22.7 billion crowns, the central bank said. The balance of goods and services was in a surplus of 30.6 billion crowns.
Primary and secondary income included a deficit of 3.4 billion crowns on transfers from the Czech Republic to the EU budget. On the capital account, a total of 0.2 billion crowns was drawn from the EU budget.
The inflow of foreign direct investment reached 10.2 billion crowns. Net reinvested earnings amounted to 8.3 billion crowns.
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