TOKYO: Japan posted its 21st consecutive monthly current-account surplus, with cheap energy imports helping an economy that continues to struggle to stoke growth and inflation. The excess in the widest measure of the nation’s trade was ￥2.98 trillion (US$27.5 billion) in March, according to data released yesterday by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, compared with ￥2.43 trillion in February. It widened 6.9 percent year-on- year.
Pakistan plans to open new gateway for foreign oil suppliers
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to open its petroleum storage sector to international oil suppliers through a customs-bonded framework that would...
