Eurozone swung to trade deficit in October on higher energy imports bill

The eurozone economy swung to a trade deficit in October compared with a year earlier, driven by higher prices of the energy it imports, data from the European Union’s statistics agency showed Friday.

The eurozone’s trade deficit in goods–the difference between exports and imports–was 26.5 billion euros ($28.17 billion) in October, swinging from a EUR0.6 billion surplus the same month a year earlier, Eurostat said.

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