LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), November 14 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's current account surplus surged to 2.2 billion euro ($2.4 billion) in the first nine months of 2016, from 1.5 billion euro in the same period last year, central bank data showed on Monday.

In September alone, Slovenia's current account recorded a 376.5 million euro surplus, up 33.5% on the year.

Slovenia's foreign trade surplus increased to 1.4 billion euro in January-September 2016 from 1.2 billion euro in the same period last year, as exports rose 4% to 18.6 billion euro and imports grew 3% to 17.2 billion euro.

Details follow (in millions of euro):

Jan-Sept'16 Jan-Sept'15 Sept'16 Sept'15 Current account 2,212.5 1,538.0 376.5 282.0 -goods 1,358.7 1,153.8 244.8 231.0 -services 1,720.7 1,526.9 240.1 186.5 -primary income -460.0 -729.9 -55.8 -106.2 -secondary income -406.8 -412.8 -52.7 -29.3 Financial account 1,249.9 1,604.3 177.0 322.5 -direct investment -808.0 -610.2 4.2 -91.4

Slovenia's latest available full-year current account data for 2015 shows a surplus of 2.8 billion euro, up 8.5% from 2014.

($=0.928681 euro)